Venkat Raman Senapati

About Venkat Raman Senapati

Executive MBA-educated Master of Science Electrical and Computer Engineer from Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). Successful database & systems software developer, entrepreneur, adept equity-options trader/investor, and a Consulting Member of Technical Staff (Snr. Principal) at Oracle Corp is skilled in designing, implementing solutions, and leading scalable growth.

Experience

1. Consulting Member of Technical Staff

   Oracle

   Jan 2012 — Present · Redwood City, CA, US

   I joined Oracle as a Member of Technical Staff in the core Database division. Persistent Memory Database – Designed and implemented the auto-tuned metadata to access persistent memory for persistency, performance, and lower storage costs. In-Memory Self Tuning – Designed and implemented dynamic growth and shrink & automatic sizing of the In-Memory column store based on the workload – a significant revenue booster for Oracle and highly demanded feature of In-memory cloud customers. Automatic Transaction Processing Cloud Service- Implemented enhancements and improvements for elastic memory growth & shrink for scalable next-gen cloud database service. Designed and implemented the Huge Buffer Cache feature to allow the database server to use persistent memory as an L3 cache for DRAM-like performance extensibility & enhanced memory capacity. Responsible for all designs, projects, developments, and enhancements of the Database Direct Loader feature for better asynchronous disk IO and database table scans. Implemented, tested, debugged to robust large-scale software systems & focus on performance enhancement for rapid customer deployment, guided support teams during escalations.Core contributor of the highly scalable, distributed, fault-tolerant, highly available, concurrent, multi-tenant distributed Database storage engine group, Buffer Cache, the heart of Oracle RDBMS. Owned & executed the Full Database Caching feature, which allows running the entire Database from in-memory for extreme performance by reducing disk IO by several orders of magnitude. Enhanced features of the Automatic Big Table Caching (an advanced Data warehousing project) & Smart Flash Cache for the RDBMS Server for greater customer adoption. Chief point of contact for all projects/problems related to shared DRAM memory of RDBMS server i.e. well known public Oracle memory parameters like sga_target, memory target etc.+ Some in-stealth-mode-till-2023 projects

Education

• Quantic School of Business and Technology

  Executive MBA, MBA

• Carnegie Mellon University

  Master of Science, Electrical & Computer Engineering

• National Institute of Technology Warangal

  Bachelor of Technology, Electrical & Electronics Engineering

Skills

• Software Development
• Python
• High Availability
• Java
• Operating Systems
• Kernel
• Fault Tolerant Systems
• Distributed Systems
• Linux Kernel
• Concurrent Programming
• C++
• Machine Learning
• C
• Rtos
• Scalability
• Data Structures
• Android
• Eclipse
• Memory Management
• Device Drivers
• Distributed Caching
• Algorithms
• Embedded Systems