Venkat Mahalingam is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and storage systems. He has led teams through complex migrations and production rollouts—from sharding transactional databases at Etsy to deploying CDC pipelines with Kafka—and combines hands-on engineering with people leadership as a former SRE manager. Venkat’s background spans startups to hyperscale tech, including designing backend services and dispatch algorithms at RideCell and automation and testing work at Microsoft. Based in New York, he focuses on reliability, operational tooling, and scalable dataset infrastructures that serve multiple teams and terabytes of regularly updated data. A pragmatist who values low-risk rollouts, he often pairs system design with developer-facing tools to make complex platforms easier to operate.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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Venkat Mahalingam - Staff Site Reliability Engineer at Google