# Manu Goyal

> Software Engineer at Braintrust

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/manugoyal

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Braintrust
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Nuro
Jan 2017 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, CA
Behavior prediction and planning for autonomous vehicles

### Software Engineering Intern @ Jane Street
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area
- Built an event handler that significantly improved the speed and memory usage of the system used for sending out trade orders
- Designed and implemented a heuristic tool for monitoring interesting options trades

### Research Intern @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Worked with Ion Stoica and Haoyuan Li on Tachyon, a fault tolerant distributed file system enabling reliable file sharing at memory-speed across cluster frameworks, such as Spark and MapReduce
- Implemented fine-grained caching for columnar data
- Redesigned and optimized the filesystem metadata manager

### Software Engineering Intern @ Dropbox
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Worked on the Dropbox for Business team
- Implemented permissions model for nested shared folders
- Re-designed user authentication flow to support proper logging and permissions checks
- Performance improvements to critical server endpoints

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Kirkland, WA
Worked on Dremel, a high-performance SQL query engine for web-scale data analysis.
- Developed a new type of lookup join for joining a large partitioned table and a smaller table where a hash join would incur too much overhead
- Implemented a lookup table on top of Google's in-memory data store capable of high distributed read and write throughput to execute the lookup joins quickly

### Research Intern @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Worked with Dave Andersen on libcuckoo, a high-speed, memory-efficient, hash table designed for high levels of concurrency
- Implemented a general purpose, industrial-quality version of the table in C++
- Improved the design to support concurrent expansion and concurrent writers

### Software Engineering Intern @ MemSQL
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Summers of 2012 and 2013, helped build a scalable, in-memory database.
- Implemented foreign keys with referential integrity
- Contributed to the frontend dashboard
- Developed a tool to replicate between MySQL and MemSQL
- Implemented several aggregate and builtin functions
- Fixed dozens of bugs to stabilize the engine before the first public release

### Research Intern @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Worked with Deepak Garg to build a tool that can automatically find violations in patent privacy policies like HIPAA.
- Implemented the concurrent policy-checking algorithm with additional features including history maintenance, process cancellation, and interactive policy modification
- Created in-memory and database-backed representations of the versioned policy data structure
- Built a custom multithreaded webserver and interactive front-end


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in EECS
UC Berkeley

### Fox Chapel Area High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mngyl
- Portfolio: http://manugoyal.com
- GitHub: https://github.com/manugoyal

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Last updated: 2026-03-29