Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 7 mos

• As the founding engineer of the data platform team, I grew it from the ground up into a strong group of 10+, shaping its vision, mentoring engineers, and driving hiring. I specialize in designing and scaling distributed data platforms—providing internal platform-as-a-service offerings for messaging, streaming, analytics, and time-series workloads used across “n” Nutanix products.
• 1. Architecture & Enablement → Partnering with product teams and staff engineers to define data platform best practices, ensuring the right architecture choices for distributed systems.
• 2. Systems at Scale → Designing, debugging, and benchmarking critical workloads (e.g., running ClickHouse on low-memory Kubernetes, integrating Apache Iceberg with ClickHouse, and optimizing analytics workloads in PostgreSQL).
• 3. Open Source Engagement → Maintaining internal forks of Apache Pulsar, NATS, Apache Druid, and ClickHouse, contributing fixes and features upstream, and helping bridge cutting-edge open-source stacks into Nutanix products.
• 4. Community & Evangelism → Active in the open-source and deep-tech ecosystem: I’ve delivered 30+ talks at Apache, CNCF, and Postgres conferences; organized 10+ meetups at Nutanix bringing together 1000+ engineers in Bangalore; and regularly write/mentor to grow the ecosystem.
• 5. Partnerships → Led strategic collaborations with ecosystem partners to bring enterprise-grade support for critical data platforms into Nutanix.
• 6. Leadership & Mentorship → Building, mentoring, and scaling a high-performing team while driving cross-functional initiatives across engineering, product, and open-source communities.

Aug 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs

• 1. Leading stream platform team backing multiple SAAS products at nutanix. The platform is built atop apache pulsar, apache flink and presto query engine.
• 2. Lead an existing SaaS platform apps team (including user management, account management, billing and subscription, authorization service, external integrations with customer communication and ticketing platforms etc). Tasks involved stabilizing, reducing cutomer issues, steading ship and turning it to align with the new product roadmap.
• 3. Lead the first milestone release of clutch platform based on the open source lyft/clutch for a single pane devops experience for microservice life cycle management, configuration as a service, secret store etc).
• 4. Apache Pulsar committer, SME and Developer Advocate at Nutanix.
• 5. Evangelist for Apache Pulsar - Multiple guest blogs / did talks (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4csRi1b8Y&list=PLA7KYGkuAD071myyg4X5ShsDHsOaIpHOq) to give back to Apache Pulsar community.
• 6. Hiring, tech lead and mentor for two tech teams.

Jan 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr 7 mos

• 1. Responsible for all things stream at Nutanix Beam. Includes maintaining a fork of Apache pulsar, contributing everything upstream to community, manage infra (4 clusters of 30 nodes), usage architecture, libraries, wrappers etc.
• 2. Tech lead for all external integrations (email, rest webhook, splunk, serviceNow etc) to connect to customers and intimate them of beam (cost governance, security compliance) findings on their preferred choice of notification / ticketing platform.
• 3. Designing audit trail platform via event sourcing pattern.