Abhiram Raju

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Senior Software Engineer at Morgan Stanley · performance engineering, consensus

Morgan Stanley
Bengaluru, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
7+ years experience
Jadavpur University
English, Hindi, Kannada
Co-founder
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Overview

7 years in software engineering, the last 2 at Morgan Stanley, where I work on the storage team. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 391ms to 106ms. Most at home with performance engineering and RocksDB. Board games, hiking, and terrible puns.

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Answers in batches on Fridays

Skills
Rustperformance engineeringRocksDBRaftconsensusC++
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a technical co-founder for carbon accounting for mid-market retailers

The idea
Carbon accounting for mid-market retailers
Stage
Early revenue
I bring
8 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Technical co-founder who has shipped B2B software
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Bengaluru or remote

I bring 7 years of distributed databases (currently Morgan Stanley). Ideally you've sold to enterprises. Full-time from day one.

Bengaluru, India · remote OKrocksdbraftperformance engineering
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    Mar 2025 - Present
    Morgan Stanley · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Moved 67% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Led the migration of 60 services to performance engineering.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 46% in two quarters.
  2. Software Engineer
    Dec 2021 - Nov 2024
    LTIMindtree · 2 yr 11 mo · Contract · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped 7 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
    • Moved 69% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Bengaluru, India
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 17 minutes to under 4.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 16 a week to 2.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from storage
2025

What went wrong and what worked while scaling distributed databases.

Open-source RocksDB toolkit
2024

A small library for distributed databases that 644 developers star on GitHub.

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Education

  1. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Electrical Engineering
    2015 - 2019

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