Jun 2022 – Aug 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Led the engineering for Amagi's flagship products Thunderstorm (https://www.amagi.com/products/thunderstorm-dynamic-ad-insertion) and Analytics (https://www.amagi.com/products/amagi-analytics).
• My teams work at the intersection of Media Streaming, Ad Tech, Big Data and Large-Scale Distributed Systems that
• Reliably process billions of ad-dollars every year through our pipelines.
• Reliably serve millions of concurrent media streaming users.
• Process petabytes of data to offer analytics to customers which help them make key business decisions.
• Some work by the team -
• https://www.amagi.com/blog/revolutionize-your-channels-ad-pod-strategy-with-amagi-thunderstorm
• https://www.amagi.com/blog/tech-blog-designing-ssai-systems-to-achieve-multi-million-concurrency

Jan 2019 – May 2022 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Founder of Confluent India R&D Center.
• Built the team from ground up. Personally hired the first 30+ engineers.
• Built university relations. Led campus hiring for 2+ years hiring 15+ engineers.
• Led the Observability group in India which handled critical products like Confluent Health+ and Notifications, scalable data pipelines that were used by data science teams and entire engineering teams

Apr 2016 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Led a 20+ member team in Prism engineering. Termed as the "face of Nutanix", Prism is the "single pane of glass" which grossly simplified the usage of Nutanix.
• Scaled Prism's management plane to be scalable to 1000s of datacenters spread across geographies.
• Scaled Prism's new intentful API gateway layer 5x.
• Led a company wide effort to improve Nutanix's one-click upgrade quality multi-folds. Received CEO's recognition.
• Interacted with Nutanix's top-5 customers on regular basis.
• Led a 4 member team in Hackathon 2017 and among the ten winning teams

Sep 2012 – Mar 2016 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked in different areas of Qubole's stack across different locations with a healthy mix of technical leadership, hands on development and customer facing roles.
• Sep '12 - Sep '15: Mountain View
• Sep '15 - Mar '16: Bangalore
• Tech Lead of Hadoop and Hive teams which offered a high quality offering of these big data technologies optimized for cloud. Worked / Led multiple efforts in improving Hadoop/Hive's efficiency with cloud stack, autoscaling features, incremental refresh Hive etc.
• Engineering point of contact for Qubole's largest and most important customer.
• Designed many critical features in Qubole's web services including frontend and middleware.
• Bootstrapped effort for Qubole's ODBC offering by writing the initial version of the ODBC driver.
• Represented Qubole at a couple of conferences.
• Other misc stuff (wearing multiple hats) that comes in a startup.
• Single digit employee at Qubole. Right from the time when it had zero customers to when it is devising new ways to deal with an ever growing list of customers.

Dec 2011 – Sep 2012 · 9 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• LinkedIn contacts

Apr 2009 – Jan 2011 · 1 yr 9 mos

• Used my spare time to utilise my passion for writing and love for tennis to publish articles on Bleacher Report gradually becoming a Featured Columnist (highest level of a writer on Bleacher Report) for the Tennis section.
• Wrote over a 100 articles on tennis in multiple domains like match previews/reviews, opinion, historical pieces etc.
• Various articles were linked on reputed websites like ESPN, CBS etc.
• I am a big fan of Rafael Nadal because he has an unmatchable combination of traits like hard work, persistence, supreme confidence with down-to-earth humility. Traits which can be applied in any profession.
• Profile: http://bleacherreport.com/users/94841-rajat-jain

Jun 2006 – Nov 2011 · 5 yrs 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Worked on Google File System (GFS) and in the Systems Infrastructure team developing libraries to provide resource transparency for Google's entire storage stack, and more.
• Experience:
• Jun '06 - Aug '09: Hyderabad
• Aug '09 - Nov '11: Mountain View
• Awards:
• Executive Management Committee Award for GFS
• Performance Tuning Award for developing a cross file system generic performance benchmarking framework