# Raghvendra Yadav > Software Engineer @StarTree.ai | Empowering real-time decisions with the speed of Apache Pinot with StarTree. Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/raghvendrayadav Software developer with design and development experience in systems software from consumer-facing products to enterprise-ready robust solutions. Detailed oriented, responsible, and committed engineer, with a get-it-done, on-time, and high-quality product spirit. Passionate to explore/devise new ways of data management platforms to meet customer needs. Proficient in Object Storage, hybrid storage, Distributed systems, Microservices, and edge computing. Experience in architecting and developing hybrid storage and distributed systems with high throughput and low latency. - Hybris cloud storage platform with bottomless storage and backup and restore capability. - Data platforms systems with scale, linear throughput scaling, constant latency. - Ability to break down requirements and problems into solutions that are sound, scalable, and robust. - Deep experience in developing systems around High Throughput, Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud. Specialties: - Building high-performance data management pipelines. - Edge, cloud computing, and distributed systems. - Building microservices. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ StarTree Jan 2024 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States At StarTree, we’re on a mission to revolutionize real-time user-facing analytics with Apache Pinot, the open-source, high-performance OLAP database designed for real-time analytics. Our technology powers the analytics behind some of the world's most recognized brands, enabling them to deliver lightning-fast insights directly to their users. ### Software Engineer @ Granica Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States Building scalable data and metadata layer for data reduction service on cloud storage platforms, such as S3, to optimize costs, enhance performance, and ensure efficiency for data lake houses and AI services built on Granica AI efficiency data platform. ### Founding Engineer @ Grainite (acquired by MongoDB) Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara, California, United States Built a scalable, fault-tolerant distributed log storage system optimized for low-latency, real-time workloads, enhancing data handling across distributed systems. ○ Developed the Consensus Layer: flexible paxos based consensus mechanism to ensure data consistency and integrity, crucial for fault tolerance and high availability in distributed transactions. ○ Write-Ahead Log for Storage Nodes: Implemented a WAL mechanism, for fast writes, data durability and reliability against unexpected failures by ensuring data integrity. ○ Developed a high-performance storage engine for storage nodes in distributed log store. Built indexes and local caches for faster access to data. Led the Development of a Distributed Testing Framework: Designed a comprehensive testing framework to simulate distributed environments, enabling thorough system testing under varied conditions to ensure system resilience. Collaboration and Leadership: Collaborated with cross-functional projects, providing technical leadership and promoting a culture of innovation and continuous improvement to align with business goals. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Designing and developing products at the edge to enable customers 1. Running applications at the edge close to the data and devices. 2. Analyzing data for quick actionable insights with hardware-accelerated AI/ML. 3. Transfering data efficiently and easily between the cloud and edge in offline and online mode, ### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale California ### Software Engineer @ Storsimple Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 StorSimple solution offers a hybrid cloud storage appliance with a mechanism to back up all the data periodically (and on-demand) on the appliance and in the cloud as well. I worked on 1. Datapath layer which enabled the bottomless storage by integrating local storage with cloud storage. 2. Backup and Restore components to provide disaster recovery supports. 3. Enabling data migration from old generation models to new generation hybrid cloud storage appliances. ### Founding Engineer @ 8kpc Inc. Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore Enhancing performance of data virtualization layer for 8kpc CS2 solution. The data virtualization layer in CS2 enables appliance for faster data access by caching data and metadata. The virtualization layer also provides deduplication, compression, and encryption. Recognized gaps in software development unit test process and address by automating unit test API's and execution framework, increasing developer productivity by 50%. ### Member Technical Staff @ NetApp Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 Designed and Implementation of Logical Replication (LREP) tool to enable customers to create baseline relation between Open Systems SnapVault primary storage system (or Data ONTAP primary storage system) and secondary storage system running Data ONTAP and vice versa using a portable device (for example, a USB external drive). Design and Development of NetApp Storage Replication Adapter 3.0 to provide disaster recovery and management for NetApp cluster mode storage systems in VMware Virtualization environment. ## Education ### Btech in computer science Motilal Nehru National Institute Of Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/raghvendra-yadav-b996a520 --- Source: https://flows.cv/raghvendrayadav JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/raghvendrayadav/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05