Venkatesan Vaidhyanathan
Chief Architect at slice
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVenkatesan Vaidhyanathan is a Chief Architect based in Bengaluru with over a decade of experience designing large-scale, fault-tolerant distributed systems and cloud-native architectures. He has led engineering and architecture at fintech and consumer companies including Slice and Razorpay, and previously co-founded and scaled engineering teams at startups like Compile Inc and Teabox. His technical breadth spans Spark/Databricks, Kubernetes, Golang, Python and JVM-era languages, enabling pragmatic choices across data, compute and deployment layers. Known for turning ambiguous requirements into resilient, scalable platforms, he blends hands-on coding with strategic system design. Having roots in research-oriented software work from BITS Pilani, he brings a mathematically grounded approach to performance and reliability trade-offs. Colleagues describe him as an engineer-architect who still prefers solving hard problems in code rather than only on whiteboards.
9 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and Science
English, Tamil, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (116)
visa10
razorpay10
java10
telemetry10
monitoring9
kafka-streams9
kubernetes-operator9
sdk9
realtime9
messaging9
data-stream9
payment-gateway9
python-client9
data-streams9
opentelemetry9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
razorpay/incubator-pinot
Aug 2020 - Mar 2021
Apache Pinot (Incubating) - A realtime distributed OLAP datastore
Contributions:16 reviews, 34 PRs, 91 pushes in 7 months
incubatingrealtimeolapapachedatastore
venkatvghub/k8s-namespace-cloner
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
A Simple Golang Application that clones a namespace into a target Namespace with specific resources
Contributions:9 reviews, 23 PRs, 34 pushes in 1 month
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