Rohit Ghivdonde

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India7 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led impactful projects at Microsoft improving cloud storage performance.
Developed innovative solutions enhancing data management at Nutanix.
Strong foundation in backend development and machine learning.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend Developer specializing in Cloud Computing and Data Management.

Contact

rghivdonde@microsoft.com LinkedIn

Skills

Other Skills

C (Programming Language)C++Deep LearningDistributed SystemsGenerative AILeadershipMachine LearningParallel ComputingPrompt EngineeringPython

About

Experienced backend developer at Microsoft and former MTS at Nutanix. Passionate about tech and entrepreneurship. Committed to innovation, problem-solving, and driving impactful solutions.

Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Promoted to manage the Block Store IDC team within Azure Messaging

Senior Software Engineer

May 2025 – Oct 2025 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Continued my work with the Azure Messaging team by introducing an adaptive layer within block storage that dynamically tunes I/O batching based on underlying latency. This optimisation improved end‑to‑end latency for small‑payload workloads by approximately 50%.

Software Engineer 2

Jun 2022 – May 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I worked as a member of the Azure Messaging team, primarily working on the elastic block store, which is a low latency, resilient storage layer powering Event Hub, Event Grid and Service Bus.
Shipped read and write batching features that cut worst‑case read latency by ~2x and helped achieve up to 10x lower end‑to‑end latency for Event Grid.
Delivered various Jemalloc optimizations to significantly reduce CPU usage and improve overall service efficiency.

Nutanix

3 roles

Member Of Technical Staff 3

Promoted

Aug 2020 – Jun 2022 · 1 yr 10 mos

Worked as a member of the Stargate team which is responsible for the data I/O management in the Nutanix Distributed File System(NDFS).
Developed an adaptive compression technique for the NDFS cache, thereby improving the read performance by 2.5x.
Added support for tiered caching in the NDFS cache, thereby facilitating the PMEM support. Hot cache entries are now stored in DRAM and cold entries on PMEM, thereby improving the read performance by at least 3.5x.

Member Of Technical Staff 2

Jul 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr

Worked as a member of the Medusa-Cassandra team that manages the metadata storage layer for the Nutanix Distributed File System(NDFS).
Developed various algorithms to help prevent and eliminate external fragmentation in the TCMalloc allocator, thereby saving multiple GBs of memory in the system.
Worked on various improvements to help scale the NDFS cache.

Intern, Member of Technical Staff

Jan 2019 – Jun 2019 · 5 mos

Worked on various improvements in the Nutanix Distributed File System as a part of the Medusa team which manages the distributed metadata layer in NDFS.

Birla institute of technology and science, pilani

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2018 – Dec 2018 · 4 mos · Pilani, Rajasthan

Teaching Assistant for the course Machine Learning.

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Summer Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Bangalore, India

Worked as a member of the Voice Intelligence R&D team.

Homi bhabha centre for science education (hbcse), tifr

Intern

May 2017 – Jul 2017 · 2 mos · Mumbai Area, India

Developed a Node Description Framework(using Clojure) that provides a gateway (API) to create, query, update and delete nodes and relationships in a graph-based database with support for multiple users, multiple groups, version control, user authentication and file management.
The framework is being used to create user-friendly applications for collaborative online academies.