N. Hrushikesh Rao

Software Engineer focused on systems, performance, and backend engineering.

Summary

Engineer with experience across systems programming, backend development, and runtime optimization. I have worked on open-source projects through Google Summer of Code and Linux Foundation Mentorship, with a focus on performance, developer tooling, and production reliability.

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Experience

Goldman Sachs Goldman Sachs | Analyst

2024 - Present

  • Working in the post-trade derivatives settlement function for OTC products.
  • Building and improving distributed payment systems that process settlement flows for OTC derivatives.
  • Contributing to reliability and operational stability of critical post-trade payment pipelines.

CNCF LFX | WasmEdge

Sept 2023 - Nov 2023

  • Designed and implemented a WasmEdge FFmpeg plugin in C/C++ to address missing GPU/AVX-optimized media processing workflows in Wasm runtimes.
  • Offloaded compute-intensive video and audio tasks to the host while returning results safely to the runtime.
  • Created a Rust SDK to simplify integration and developer usage.
  • Achieved approximately 150% improvement in compilation/processing performance.
  • Reference: LFX WasmEdge 2023 Experience

GSOC GSOC | Jenkins

May 2022 - Sept 2022

  • Improved Jenkins controller Git performance by introducing automated Git maintenance (prefetch, gc, commit-graph).
  • Built an Apache Jelly UI for scheduling and managing maintenance tasks using cron syntax.
  • Implemented a producer-consumer, multi-threaded architecture for maintenance operations.
  • Measured impactful speedups on maintenance operations in project outcomes: prefetch (~35x), commit-graph (~410x), and loose objects cleanup (~10x), with JUnit-based validation.
  • Reference: Jenkins GSoC 2022 Project - Automatic Git Cache Maintenance

Skills

  • Java, C++, Rust, JavaScript, SQL
  • Distributed Systems, Backend Engineering, Payment Systems
  • Linux, WebAssembly, Performance Optimization
  • NixOS, ZFS, Infrastructure as Code
  • Git, Jenkins, Docker, CI Testing

Education

MTech Computer Science | JNTU Hyderabad

Aug 2019 - May 2024

Pursued Computer Science with coursework in Operating Systems, Databases, and Software Engineering.