Viren Baraiya

Co-Founder

San Francisco, California, United States28 yrs experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Co-Creator of Netflix Conductor.
  • Expert in building scalable cloud infrastructure.
  • Led large geographically distributed engineering teams.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Infrastructure expert with extensive experience in distributed systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsMachine LearningUser SegmentationMicroservicesGraph DatabasesDistributed ReportingBig DataOnline Edtech ProductsIdentity ManagementSoftware DevelopmentWeb Services Management

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAmazon Web Services (AWS)ArchitectureCloudCloud StorageContent InfrastructureDesign PatternsEngineering ManagementEnterprise IntegrationFirebase PredictionsGitHibernateJMSJSONJava

About

Co-Founder and CTO of Orkes - https://orkes.io/ Orkes is on a mission to help developers build resilient, stateful applications in cloud. Hands on engineering leader focused on building scalable infrastructure products that provides multiplier effect. Co-Creator of Netflix Conductor https://github.com/Netflix/conductor - Building distributed, highly scalable and available systems - Cloud experience including private / public cloud migrations - Enterprise security having built the first of Netflix's RBAC and owned SSO integrations for McGraw-Hill Higher ed - Experience in managing large, geographically distributed teams - Developer evangelist - Polyglot (Programming and natural languages)

Experience

28 yrs
Total Experience
2 yrs 9 mos
Average Tenure
4 yrs 6 mos
Current Experience

Orkes

Co-Founder & CTO

Oct 2021Present · 4 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Building the future of developer ecosystem. For developers, by developers!
Cloud ComputingDistributed SystemsSoftware Development

Google

Engineering Leader

Jul 2018Feb 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • I lead & manage Firebase Predictions engineering at Google.
  • Firebase Predictions let app developers leverage Google's machine learning expertise to create predicted user segments, and personalize in app experience to optimize revenue, engagement and user retention. All with a single click of a button without having to learn/build machine learning models.
  • Find out more at
  • https://firebase.google.com/products/predictions/
Machine LearningFirebase PredictionsUser Segmentation

Netflix

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2017Jul 2018 · 1 yr · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Managed Content Infrastructure team at Netflix helping build world's largest studio.
  • Creator/Founder of Netflix Conductor - https://github.com/Netflix/conductor
Content InfrastructureMicroservicesDistributed Systems

Senior Software Architect

Apr 2015Jul 2017 · 2 yrs 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Focused on building the distributed infrastructure products at scale.
  • Introduced graph databases to engineering teams. Built one of the first production system utilizing TitanDB @Netflix.
  • A graph based data store that stores hundreds of millions of nodes and edges.
  • Microservices orchestration service. Open sourced as Netflix Conductor
  • A distributed lock free queues using Netflix's Dynomite KV store.
  • https://github.com/Netflix/conductor
  • https://github.com/Netflix/dyno-queues
  • Started as the early engineer/architect on the team. Responsible for the team management now.
Graph DatabasesDistributed SystemsMicroservices

Goldman sachs

Vice President / Engineering Manager

Jan 2010Apr 2015 · 5 yrs 3 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Lead the development of a distributed reporting products and its infrastructure operations for Prime Brokerage, Future and Risk business. The reporting suite is a purpose built set of products and is used for statement and risk reporting across various divisions in Goldman Sachs.
  • The product and the infrastructure is used by engineering teams to design, build and generate millions of reports & data files everyday computing over billion data points. This is part of critical infrastructure within the bank.
  • Lead geographically distributed teams of 15+ engineers and managers across US and India.
  • Lead the initiative to store the data into the cloud enabling a key historical reporting offering for the prime brokerage business.
  • Started the initiative to define and build a big data platform for tracking performance data across various applications, resulting in improved availability of key reporting data and deliveries to firm’s clients.
Distributed ReportingCloud StorageBig Data

Mcgraw-hill companies

Lead Software Engineer

May 2007Jan 2010 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Greater New York City Area

  • Reported to the Vice President of the higher education group at McGraw-Hill.
  • Lead the design and implementation teams across US and India on building some of the first online edTech products in the industry.
  • Key responsibilities:
  • ★ Managed the online customer registration and payment system with a peak load of over 1+ million registrations per day.
  • ★ Managed the identity management and SSO site 4+ million customers and 3rd party integrations.
  • ★ Lead the technology team for custom publishing initiative called McGraw-Hill Create (http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html) working with key stakeholders on creating the architecture and later managing offshore vendors in the delivery.
  • ★ Architected and designed the online shopping site for the custom publishing products (https://create.mheducation.com/shop/)
Online EdTech ProductsIdentity ManagementSSO Integrations

Patni computers inc

Software Specialist

Sep 2006May 2007 · 8 mos

  • Worked for Genworth Financials with the Employee Benefits Group.
  • Helped developed a quoting engine for the EBG's disability income protector product.
Quoting Engine DevelopmentSoftware Development

Crimsonlogic pte ltd, singapore

Software Engineer

Aug 2005Aug 2006 · 1 yr

  • I was a project lead for developing SOA based web services management products. Designed and lead a team to deliver the product for SOA governance and designed a runtime engine for BPEL spec 2.0.
SOA GovernanceWeb Services Management

Novacitynets pte ltd, singapore

Programmer / Analyst

Apr 2004Aug 2005 · 1 yr 4 mos · Singapore

Scandent group, singapore

Sr. Software Engineer

Apr 2000Apr 2004 · 4 yrs · Singapore

  • Worked for Deutsche Bank client.

L&t chiyoda ltd

Graduate Engineer Trainee

Jan 1998Jan 2000 · 2 yrs

Education

Gujarat University

Bachelors in Engineering — Computer

Jan 1994Jan 1998

Dharmsinh Desai University

B.E. — Computer Science

Jan 1994Jan 1998

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