Thanumalayan Pillai
Staff Software Engineer at Google
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolThanumalayan Pillai is a Staff Software Engineer at Google with 18 years of systems engineering experience, a PhD from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and a focus on research-driven distributed systems for machine learning. He has built production database and cluster reliability features, worked on OS kernels and single-node storage during his graduate research, and now applies that cross-layer expertise to ML infrastructure at DeepMind and Brain. His career blends rigorous academic publication with hands-on engineering—measuring durability and performance in databases and leading availability improvements for Cloud SQL. Based in Sunnyvale, he thrives in research-oriented exploration roles that span from low-level storage to distributed ML systems, with a knack for turning measurement-driven insights into production reliability.
18 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
madthanu/madthanu.github.io
Sep 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:18 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 2 months
madthanu/alice
Oct 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:1 release, 4 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 4 months
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