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Vishnu Varma

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CTO, Nimbus Systems - C++ · consensus · performance engineering

Works at
Nimbus Systems
Location
Hyderabad, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
Experience
11+ years experience
Education
Christ University
Languages
English, Hindi, Telugu
Co-founder
Message Connect

Overview

Currently at Nimbus Systems, where I lead distributed databases with a team of 26. Brought on-call pages for storage down from 37 a week to 3. Before that: Kotak Mahindra Bank and McKinsey & Company. Most at home with Rust and RocksDB.

Good reasons to reach out
  • People who want to build this with me
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
Please don't message about
  • Requests to fix your code for free
  • Crypto token projects

Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
RocksDBperformance engineeringElixirRaftconsensusRustC++
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a commercial co-founder for payroll for LatAm marketplaces

The idea
Payroll for LatAm marketplaces
Stage
Prototype
I bring
13 years in distributed databases
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Full-time now
Location
Hyderabad or remote

I bring 16 years of distributed databases (currently Nimbus Systems). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Pre-product, some customer interviews done.

Hyderabad, India · remote OKc++rustelixir
Open

Experience

  1. CTO
    Nov 2025 - Present
    Nimbus Systems · 1 yr · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 406ms to 78ms.
    • Grew the storage team from 6 to 15 engineers.
    • Brought on-call pages for storage down from 36 a week to 1.
  2. Senior Engineering Manager
    Aug 2022 - Nov 2025
    Kotak Mahindra Bank · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Shipped 9 launches on the storage team without a rollback.
  3. Engineering Manager
    Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
    McKinsey & Company · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Wrote the C++ service that now handles 15 million requests a day.
  4. Software Engineer
    Jun 2019 - Dec 2020
    Reliance Jio · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 635ms to 153ms.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 16 minutes to under 2.
  5. Senior Software Engineer
    Mar 2016 - Jun 2019
    Asian Paints · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · Hyderabad, India
    • Built the experimentation framework 30 product teams use to ship changes safely.

Projects

Write-up: distributed databases in practice
2026

A long-form guide to distributed databases for people starting out.

Distributed databases benchmark
2022

Reproducible benchmarks comparing Rust and Elixir on real workloads.

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Education

  1. Christ University
    BBA, Electronics and Communication
    2005 - 2009

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