# Sridhar Valaguru

> Principal Engineer at Roblox

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sridharvalaguru

I am a sofware developer, architect, with 12+ years of experience in various aspects of file system design and implementation. I have worked throughout the software stack , from kernel, userspace to python based rest API servers and web UI.

I have implemented various concurrency control mechanism such as multi version concurrency control , optimistic and pessimistic concurrency controls.

I come up with innovative solutions to the product and create tools to help with various day to day activities. 

Independently created an embedded extensible document based nosql database. 
In the current role at Oracle, worked on design of features like QoS, which were required for integration with Oracle cloud.

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Principal Software Developer @ Oracle
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California
Worked as a senior filesystem developer in Oracle FS flash storage product.

### Principal Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | Bangalore
Working as filesystem developer in Oracle FS Flash Storage.

### Software Development Engineer 2 @ Amazon
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Bangalore
Worked as web developer mostly on front end development and maintenance of amazon associates websites.

### Senior staff Engineer @ 8kpc Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012

### Staff engineer @ 8kpc Inc.
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011
Designed and developed scalable NFS cache servers based on eventual consistency model. Designed and implemented MongoDB based metadata server to serve NFS requests.

Worked on optimizing NFS requests over WAN both for metadata and data access. 

Designed and implemented web.py based web services to configure/control multiple nodes in the system.

### Member Technical Staff 2 @ VMware, Bangalore
Jan 2007 – Jan 2010
Lead the CPD-filesystem team after started as fresher in the same.

Solved various real world complex problems customers faced in VMFS and other filesystem related problems in ESX kernel.

Designed and developed online/offline filesystem debugger tool to debug/edit VMware's proprietary filesystem VMFS. FS debugger can be used to correct the corrupt filesystems also to induce corruptions for testing purpose.

Worked on development of filesystem checker for VMFS.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation and Control
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli

### B.Tech in Instrumentation and Control
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sridhar-valaguru-30276a10

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Last updated: 2026-04-12