Vishal Swarankar

Co-Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 5 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in architecting petabyte-scale distributed systems.
Proven track record in managing engineering teams with low attrition.
Delivered multiple high-performance data storage solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS architect specializing in high-performance distributed systems and data management.

Contact

vishal.swarnkar@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsArchitectureBig DataSoftware Development

Other Skills

Agile MethodologiesAlgorithmsAnnotation Engine DevelopmentCC++Cloud ComputingComplianceData ProtectionData StructuresDatabasesDeliveryDisaster RecoveryDisaster Recovery ServicesHigh AvailabilityHigh Performance Computing (HPC)

About

TECHNICAL - Experience in architecting and delivering Petabyte scale distributed system with high throughput and low latency. - Data platforms systems with infinite scale, linear throughput scaling, and constant latency. - Rich experience in building high performance and geographically distributed scalable & fault-tolerant enterprise-grade large dataset systems. - Ability to break down requirements and problems into fundamental algorithms and engineer solutions that are sound, scalable and robust. - Delivered multiple products in the area of Petabyte Scale/Performance, Distributed data storage/services, Distributed Caching, Distributed System Management. - Deep experience in developing systems around Low latency, High Throughput, Containers, Dockers. Kubernetes, Public/Private/Hybrid cloud. PEOPLE/DELIVERY - Experience in building products and teams from scratch. Drove the product & team from inception to acquisition. - Responsible for running engineering and product of a company with complete responsibility of people/delivery & architecture. - Delivering with ambiguous, unclear requirements. - Experience of managing/hiring of Developers/QA/Security/DevOps/Leads/Sales/Customers/SREs. - Maintained close to zero attrition rate with multiple product deliveries and PoCs. - Experience in running complete engineering and product from India with CXOs in the US.

Experience

Prophecy.io

Co-Founder, SVP Engineering

Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

AI-Native Analytics

Thoughtspot

Engineering and Product Leader

Sep 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

8kpc inc.

5 roles

Vice President Of Engineering

Promoted

Nov 2016 – Aug 2018 · 1 yr 9 mos

~ Founding engineer, drove engineering & product from scratch to successful acquisition of the company in Bangalore with CXOs in US. 8kpc is part of Lenovo now.
~ Responsible for Architecture,Delivery,Product & People.
~ Hyper Convergence: Delivered industry’s lowest latency hyper-converged system with mission
critical software defined data platform focused on Performance, Scalability, Resiliency, Orchestration and Management. Delivered industry's lowest latency distributed software defined storage system with infinite scale and constant latency. Bypassed virtualization stack in hypervisors linux storage stack to achieve lowest possible latency for I/Os. Built a distributed cache on 8kpc SDS to assure always local data accessibility for deterministic throughput and latency in distributed systems. Developed a unified file/object/block based frontends to serve peta- byte scale data with line speed.
~ Linear Scaling: Architected distributed data platform with high speed networks and high speed storage for highest sustainable IOPS performance and deterministic latency with linear scaling.
~ Edge to Multi-Cloud : Built a high performance geo-distributed data platform from Edge to Cloud with in-built Data Protection, Disaster Recovery Services and Compliance.
~ Delivery: Managed and delivered product/delivery/customer/POCs, all together with high efficiency and strict timelines.
~ People: Managed Dev/QA/Managers/Leads/Sales/Operations. Maintained a close to zero attrition rate with multiple on-time product deliveries and POCs.
~ Ownership: Complete ownership of product & engineering. Ran product and engineering from India with CXOs in US.
~ Strategic Partnerships/Deals: Oversaw multiple global strategic partnerships with enterprise companies.

Hyper ConvergenceDistributed SystemsData ProtectionDisaster Recovery ServicesComplianceArchitecture+3

Director Of Engineering

Promoted

Jan 2014 – Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

Manager of Engineering

Promoted

Aug 2012 – Dec 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos

Team Lead

Promoted

Jul 2011 – Aug 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo

Founding Engineer

Aug 2010 – Jul 2011 · 11 mos

Guavus inc

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2009 – Aug 2010 · 9 mos · Gurugram, Haryana, India

Guavus provides ability and intelligence to manage big data and take decisive actions in real time to achieve scale and security required by Internet of Things (IoT).
 Developed Routing engine with various protocol support to collect billions of time series events in ISP network.
 Developed Annotation engine to annotate streams of record in real time for post processing and machine learning of billions of records.

Routing Engine DevelopmentAnnotation Engine DevelopmentReal-time ProcessingBig DataSoftware Development