Inaam Rana
Software Engineer at Google
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolInaam Rana is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years focused on database internals, currently contributing to Google’s systems engineering efforts from Toronto. His career spans core storage engine development at Oracle (InnoDB), large-scale storage projects at Twitter and Alibaba Cloud’s PolarDB, and principal-level work at Microsoft, reflecting deep expertise in buffer cache management, IO subsystems, recovery, and replication. He repeatedly tackles cross-language and architecture challenges—such as integrating native InnoDB with Java-based Manhattan—and designs practical mitigations for hot-spot IO and page-level inconsistencies. Inaam blends hands-on C/C++ systems development with architectural thinking about decoupling compute and storage for HA and sharding. Not obvious from the title: he began in civil engineering before transitioning to advanced database kernel work, which informs his systematic approach to performance and scalability.
13 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MCS, Computer Science, MCS, Computer Science at Dalhousie UniversityB.Engg., Civil Engineering, B.Engg., Civil Engineering at University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore
Github Skills (6)
mysql-database10
php10
oracle10
twitter10
mysql10
database1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
facebookarchive/webscalesql-5.6
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
WebScaleSQL, Version 5.6, based upon the MySQL-5.6 community releases.
Contributions:54 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
phpmysql
facebook/mysql-5.6
Mar 2014 - Apr 2015
Facebook's branch of the Oracle MySQL database. This includes MyRocks.
Contributions:61 commits in 1 year 1 month
mysql-databaseoracle
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