Viren Baraiya
Co-Founder & CTO at Orkes
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolViren Baraiya is a veteran engineering leader and founder with nearly two decades of experience building distributed, resilient infrastructure and developer-focused platforms from Netflix to his startup Orkes. As Co-Founder & CTO of Orkes and co-creator of the open-source Netflix Conductor orchestration engine, he combines hands-on backend development (including significant Python and Java contributions) with product leadership to help teams run stateful cloud applications at scale. His career spans cloud migrations, enterprise security (introducing RBAC and SSO solutions at Netflix and McGraw‑Hill), and leading large, geographically distributed teams. Formerly an engineering leader at Google (Firebase Predictions), he blends ML-driven product thinking with deep systems expertise. Beyond leadership, he’s known for pragmatic open-source contributions that have influenced production orchestration patterns used widely across the industry.
9 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors in Engineering Computer, Bachelors in Engineering Computer at Gujarat UniversityB.E. Computer Science, B.E. Computer Science at Dharmsinh Desai University
English, Hindi, Gujarati
Github Skills (13)
javas10
eventing10
microservices-application10
distributed-systems10
workflow-engine10
workflow-automation10
microservices10
python10
java10
grpc9
spring-boot9
docker8
dockers8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
conductor-oss/conductor
Dec 2023 - Mar 2025
Conductor is an event driven orchestration platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 133 reviews, 160 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Viren contributed to the development of the eventing feature, which included implementing support for a Python client, Docker compose, and basic task logging. They made changes to the HTTP task to handle 204 response codes and modified the output of the HTTP task. Additionally, the user worked on the scripting for conditional evaluation and implemented the EVENT task. These contributions indicate work on core backend logic and system tasks related to workflow orchestration and event processing.
distributed-systemsdurable-executiongrpcjavajavascript
Netflix/conductor
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Conductor is a microservices orchestration engine.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 releases, 66 reviews, 124 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Viren primarily contributed to the development of a Python client for the Netflix Conductor workflow orchestration engine. Their work focused on eventing features, including the initial implementation of the Python client, task logging, and the handling of HTTP task responses. The commits demonstrate the addition of core functionality within the Python client library, providing basic support for tasks and workflows. Additionally, the user made changes to the core Java codebase to support the eventing features.
spring-bootconductororchestrationworkflow-enginegrpc
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