Vivek Nagaraju
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolVivek Nagaraju is a pragmatic software engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, high-performance distributed systems across companies like Opendoor, Shipt, Freshworks, and Stripe in the San Francisco Bay Area. He specializes in backend engineering with Go, Postgres, Kafka, Bazel, gRPC and has driven improvements in eventing, background worker performance, observability, and internal tooling. At Opendoor he was a core contributor to redesigning the eventing platform and improving data reliability, and his open-source work includes hardening Facebook DataLoader implementations in Go with a focus on edge-case testing and error handling. He brings full-stack systems thinking from monolith-to-microservice migrations and integration testing platforms to feature work that directly improved customer and operational outcomes. Vivek pairs a solid academic foundation (MS in CS) with a hands-on, test-first approach and a knack for plumbing complex systems so they behave predictably at scale. Beyond code, he’s comfortable translating business metrics into engineering solutions that improve efficiency and user experience.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University at BuffaloBachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Anna University Chennai
English, Tamil, Hindi
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Github Skills (13)
golang10
caching10
error-handling10
go10
disk-cache10
dataloader10
web-cache10
object-cache10
memory-cache10
testing10
graphql8
wpgraphql8
wordpress-graphql8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
graph-gophers/dataloader
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Implementation of Facebook's DataLoader in Golang
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 8 commits, 5 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily contributed to the `dataloader` implementation, adding new test cases and enhancing existing ones to improve the robustness of the library. They focused on testing edge cases, including scenarios where panics or errors could occur within the batch function. The commits demonstrate an emphasis on error handling and caching behavior. The work also includes refactoring some existing error handling and type definitions to refine the codebase.
dataloadergolangfacebook-dataloadergraphqlcache
vivek-ng/concurrency-limiter
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:25 releases, 11 commits, 51 PRs in 1 day
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