Vijay Pai
San Francisco, California, United States
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Vijay Pai is an experienced computer systems researcher, educator, and developer with 11 years of professional experience and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Rice University. He co-founded a networking software startup that was acquired after six years and has led multiple open-source distributions—two of which surpassed 1,000 users—demonstrating a blend of entrepreneurial and community-driven engineering. His technical work spans computer architecture, parallel programming, cloud and networking systems, and even digital-array radar and experimental economics, with deep expertise in performance analysis using cycle-accurate simulation and statistical techniques. As PI or co-PI he has secured over $7.5M across 15 grants and contracts, evidencing a strong track record in funded research and project leadership. On GitHub he has contributed to performance- and size-focused improvements in the core gRPC C/C++ codebase, reflecting hands-on low-level systems craftsmanship alongside broader research impact.
11 years of coding experience
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University
Github Skills (8)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
grpc10
c119
c179
refactoring8
maintenance8
refactor8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
grpc/grpc
Dec 2014 - Jul 2021
The C based gRPC (C++, Python, Ruby, Objective-C, PHP, C#)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:101 reviews, 2147 commits, 1662 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Vijay's contributions primarily focus on modifying the core gRPC codebase, with the goal of reducing the size of the compiled binaries and improving the reliability and maintainability of the code. The commits demonstrate expertise in C/C++ programming. There is no evidence indicating the use of backend logic, databases, or APIs.
objective-ccpppythongrpcphp
vjpai/grpc
Mar 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:240 pushes, 89 branches, 1 comment in 6 months
objective-ccpppythonc-nodenode-js
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