:~$ whoami
phani@cloudflare · principal software engineer · 23 years shipping developer infrastructure
Phani Raj
Principal Software Engineer, Workers AI @ Cloudflare
For over two decades I've designed and built cloud services and developer tools used by millions of engineers — at GitHub, PlanetScale, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Supernormal, and now Cloudflare.
:~$ cat impact.txt
You've almost certainly run my code. If you've ever…
- pushed or pulled a package from GitHub Packages
- merged a Dependabot pull request
- run a workflow on GitHub Actions
- connected to a PlanetScale database
- captured a meeting in Radiant
…then you've used software I designed, built, and shipped.
:~$ git log --oneline career/
May 2026 — now
Principal Software Engineer, Workers AI · Cloudflare
Building serverless AI inference on Cloudflare's global network — running models at the edge for developers worldwide.
2024 — 2026
Staff Engineer / Eng Lead · Supernormal
Led real-time, AI-powered meeting transcription in Radiant. Built a streaming artifact pipeline in Rust + Tauri v2 + React over high-scale Node/Rails/Postgres backends.
2021 — 2024
Engineering Lead · PlanetScale
Shipped MFA, connection strings (MySQL auth), zero-downtime data imports, ELT, and granular password/certificate access for serverless MySQL.
2017 — 2021
Principal Software Engineer · GitHub
Lead engineer on GitHub Package Registry, Actions, and the Dependency Graph; brought Actions & Packages to GitHub Enterprise Server 3.0.
2014 — 2017
Principal Engineer / Tech Lead · Hewlett Packard
Architected Helion Code Engine, a CI/CD system for Cloud Foundry workloads (Node.js, RabbitMQ, Angular). Two engineering excellence awards.
2006 — 2014
Senior / Software Design Engineer · Microsoft
Azure HDInsight SDKs & provisioning UX, OData client libraries (Windows Phone / Store / Silverlight / JS), and WCF Data Services. Multiple Gold Star awards; recognized as high-potential.
full history → resume.md
:~$ ls selected-work/
workers ai
Serverless AI inference running on Cloudflare's global edge network.
github packages
Package hosting for npm, RubyGems, Docker & more, integrated into GitHub.
github actions
Workflow automation & CI/CD running billions of jobs across the ecosystem.
dependency graph
Dependency insight & security alerts powering Dependabot.
planetscale
MFA, connection strings, zero-downtime imports & ELT for serverless MySQL.
radiant
Real-time AI meeting transcription & artifacts (Rust · Tauri · React).
more projects
OSS contributions, OData, HDInsight, pkgcloud, and the rest.
:~$ ls -lt writing/ | head