Shruthi Bhat

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VP of Engineering at Drift Commerce · Distributed databases · Raft, C++

Drift Commerce
Pune, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
12+ years experience
Jadavpur University
English, Hindi, Marathi
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Overview

VP of Engineering at Drift Commerce, focused on distributed databases. Led the migration of 70 services to Rust. I teach a weekend class on RocksDB.

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Rustperformance engineeringRocksDBC++Raft
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Office hours for teams scaling past 50 engineers: distributed databases and Raft

Topics
distributed databases, performance engineering, Rust
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Teams scaling past 50 people

25 years of distributed databases. One call a month or async reviews.

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Experience

  1. VP of Engineering
    Feb 2025 - Present
    Drift Commerce · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Wrote the performance engineering service that now handles 49 million requests a day.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 19% in two quarters.
    • Moved 89% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  2. Staff Software Engineer
    Jun 2023 - Feb 2025
    Cisco · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Grew the storage team from 3 to 26 engineers.
    • Led the migration of 60 services to Rust.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Sep 2020 - Jun 2023
    Atlassian · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Led the migration of 75 services to RocksDB.
    • Mentored 5 engineers through their first promotion.
  4. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2017 - Sep 2020
    McKinsey & Company · 2 yr 9 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 852ms to 76ms.
    • Led the migration of 46 services to RocksDB.
  5. Staff Software Engineer
    May 2014 - Dec 2017
    Myntra · 3 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Pune, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 26 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

Distributed databases benchmark
2025

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Rust and performance engineering on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Jadavpur University
    B.E., Electrical Engineering
    1996 - 2000

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