Summary
Ashvin Vinodh is a systems-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale storage and database infrastructure, currently working on supercomputing infrastructure at OpenAI. He has driven storage control-plane and proxy initiatives at Robinhood—architecting Kubernetes-based PgBouncer at scale, schedule-driven Aurora Reader autoscaling that saved millions, and an LLM-powered database insights platform. At Microsoft he shipped high-impact SQL Server and Azure SQL features, including a memory-optimized metadata redesign that improved throughput 2–4x and led hybrid-cloud backup/restore services. Comfortable across low-level C++/C# systems and cloud-native Go/C#/Python microservices, he blends performance optimization with developer experience and observability. He also brings entrepreneurial chops from founding a live-edit app builder and leading UCLA’s LA Hacks, showing a bias for productizing infrastructure and enabling teams. Based in New York, he pairs deep database internals knowledge with pragmatic cost- and reliability-focused engineering.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles