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Rahul Ravi Nair

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Senior Engineering Manager at Telus | ex-Bell Canada

Works at
Telus
Location
Calgary, AB · MT (UTC-7)
Experience
13+ years experience
Education
McGill University
Languages
English
Co-founder
Message Connect

Overview

I lead distributed databases at Telus in Calgary. Shipped 18 launches on the storage team without a rollback. Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 857ms to 179ms. Before that: Bell Canada and Microsoft.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Second opinions on C++ decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Generic networking requests

Replies on weekday evenings

Skills
consensusPrometheusRaftC++RustRocksDBperformance engineering
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for an operations co-founder for construction estimating for logistics fleets

The idea
Looking for an operations co-founder for construction estimating for logistics fleets
Stage
Idea
I bring
7 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Commercial co-founder who has sold to enterprises
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Calgary or remote

I bring 14 years of distributed databases (currently Telus). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Have a working prototype and design partners.

Calgary, ABc++prometheusconsensus
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Telus · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 41% in two quarters.
    • Moved 85% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Sep 2023 - Aug 2025
    Bell Canada · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 71 million requests a day.
    • Led the migration of 34 services to C++.
  3. Staff Software Engineer
    Jul 2020 - Sep 2023
    Microsoft · 3 yr 2 mo · Contract · Calgary, AB
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 37 minutes to under 5.
  4. Senior Software Engineer
    Oct 2017 - Jul 2020
    Lululemon · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 63 million requests a day.
  5. Software Engineer
    Apr 2014 - Oct 2017
    Loblaw · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Calgary, AB
    • Moved 70% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 36 million requests a day.

Projects

Conference talk: lessons from storage
2023

What went wrong and what worked while scaling distributed databases.

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Education

  1. McGill University
    BEng, Electronics and Communication
    2008 - 2012

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