Vinay Gonabavi
Tech Lead, Database Reliability Engineering
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVinay Gonabavi is a Tech Lead in Database Reliability Engineering based in the San Francisco Bay Area with five years of professional experience building and operating large-scale data systems. At Yelp he progressed from Software Engineer to Tech Lead, focusing on making databases resilient and scalable for production workloads. His background includes hands-on DBA work, DR architectures, and storage-level experience from earlier roles at Wipro, and he’s optimized distributed data processing pipelines during a data engineering fellowship that reduced Spark job times by up to 40%. Vinay combines engineering leadership with deep operational know-how—comfortable both designing architectures and scripting the automation that keeps them reliable. He holds a MS in Computer Science and Engineering from Santa Clara University and brings a pragmatic, efficiency-minded approach to DB reliability problems.
5 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communication Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electronics and Communication Engineering at Sree Vidyanikethan Engineering CollegeMaster's degree Computer Science and Engineering, Master's degree Computer Science and Engineering at Santa Clara University
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (29)
sensu10
kubernetes10
docker10
chronos10
yelp10
java10
infrastructure10
golang10
paas10
k8s10
marathon9
distributed-systems9
cloud-native9
microservices9
mesos7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
Yelp/paasta
Dec 2023 - Dec 2024
An open, distributed platform as a service
Contributions:86 reviews, 34 PRs, 60 pushes in 11 months
mesosdockerplatform-as-a-servicedistributed-systemsmicroservices
Yelp/puppet-xtrabackup
Nov 2020 - Jan 2021
Xtrabackup module for Puppet
Contributions:4 reviews, 1 comment in 2 months
xtrabackuppuppet
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