# Venkata Saikiranpatnaik Balivada

> Invariants are to understanding as atoms are to matter.

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

Passionate about building good abstractions, optimizing efficiency, and fostering deep conceptual understanding.

Enhancing the transaction subsystem of Yugabyte, the company behind YugabyteDB.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Yugabyte
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
LRT Team. Transaction subsystem. Distributed consistency with skewed clocks.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Yugabyte
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
LRT Team. Improved distinct query latencies using pushdown.

### Computer Science Grader @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Grader for the course Non-linear Optimization

### Software Developer @ Marlin
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Worked as a blockchain developer primarily on MEV extraction and peer-peer network simulations.

### Core Engineer @ Tower Research Capital
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Gurgaon, India
Part of the Market Data Core Team that is responsible for the design, development, and maintenance of both the trading stack client-side library as well as several applications that are primarily based on market data and sometimes based on order entry.

The projects I worked on involved
* Understanding and working with software layer interfaces provided by low-latency network cards, namely Mellanox and Solarflare.
* Augmenting existing shared memory solutions with sniffer links.
* Optimizing performance through the inspection of the generated code.
* Designing, developing and maintaining application layer protocol(s) between the clients and the Market Data Services.
* Exporting the client-side C++ library APIs to Python.
* Fixing interesting functional and performance bugs.

Additionally took part in the Hiring process that primarily involved designing interview questions, screening resumes, and identifying candidates relevant for the roles available through a flexible interview process.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison

### Bachelor of Technology - BTech in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/venkata-saikiranpatnaik-balivada-16238910b

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Last updated: 2026-04-05