Aishik Bhattacharyya

Founder

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India5 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 50% storage cost reduction in enterprise solutions
  • StarTree All-Stars 2025 recipient
  • Growth Mindset Award at StarTree
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer specializing in Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsData EngineeringCloud & Infrastructure

Other Skills

AlgorithmsAzure FilesBatch IngestionC++ContainerizationData IngestionData StructuresData TransformationDockerFeature DevelopmentHPC ClustersMap-ReduceObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)Performance OptimizationPerformance Testing

About

Founding Engineer | Distributed Systems | Senior Software Engineer | Ex-Microsoft Azure | IIT Graduate Currently building 0→1 as Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup | Specializing in Distributed Systems Architecture, Database Internals, and High-Performance Computing 5+ Years of Enterprise-Scale Impact: Microsoft Azure Files: Performance and validation testing, reduced storage costs by 50% through distributed file system optimization, automated critical live-site operations StarTree (Apache Pinot): Led development of distributed sorting systems for large-scale data processing, implemented map-reduce optimizations for immutable data processing Apache Pinot Open Source: Created adaptive mapper eliminating OOD issues during data transformation, added partition function support for Murmur3, developed data transformer for special value handling HCL Engineering: Developed and containerized applications for HPC clusters, created proof of concepts for multi-node distributed applications Core Technical Expertise: Distributed Systems: Architecture, Design, Performance Optimization, Scalable Systems Programming Languages: C++, Java, Arrow, Object-Oriented Programming Database Technologies: Distributed Database Systems, Database Internals, Apache Pinot Cloud & Infrastructure: Microsoft Azure, Docker, Singularity, HPC Clusters, File Systems Data Engineering: Batch Ingestion, Data Transformation, Performance Optimization, ETL System Design: Large-Scale Architecture, Memory Optimization, Query Performance Key Achievements: StarTree All-Stars 2025 recipient Growth Mindset Award at StarTree ERS Knowledge Champion Award at HCL 50% storage cost reduction in enterprise solutions Solved memory constraint issues for large-scale data sorting systems Education: M.Tech Computer Science - Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bhubaneswar Current Focus & Opportunities: Building innovative distributed systems solutions at early-stage startup. Seeking Staff Engineer, Principal Engineer, Senior Software Engineer, or Technical Lead roles in Distributed Systems, Database Engineering, Data Infrastructure, or Cloud Computing. Experience spans Startups, Enterprise Software, Cloud Platforms, and Data Processing domains. #DistributedSystems #SoftwareEngineering #DatabaseEngineering #SystemDesign #DataEngineering #OpenSource #IIT #Microsoft #ApachePinot #HighPerformanceComputing #StaffEngineer #PrincipalEngineer #TechnicalLead #Bengaluru #Remote #Startup #CloudComputing

Experience

5 yrs 5 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 1 mo
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Stealth startup

Founding Engineer

Jul 2025 – Present · 10 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • 0 -> 1

Kloudfuse

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2025 – Jul 2025 · 4 mos · California, United States · Remote

  • Short but impactful stint
  • Helped adding a new schemaless index that infers datatype during runtime.

Startree

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2023 – Feb 2025 · 1 yr 3 mos

  • Part of the Data Ingestion team
  • Part of StarTree all-stars batch of 2025: https://dev.startree.ai/community/all-stars#meet-the-class
  • Led the design and implemented a project to solve the issue of sorting records where neither the records nor the index fits in the memory.
  • Worked on a project where I implemented a reduced version of map-reduce to optimize a feature to
  • replace existing immutable data for better query performance.
  • OSS Contributions
  • Contributions including but not limited to the following (check more out on: https://github.com/apache/pinot/pulls?q=is%3Amerged+is%3Apr+author%3Aaishikbh+) :
  • Created an adaptive mapper that eliminates OOD issues during data transformation phase of batch
  • ingestion.
  • Added partition function support for Murmur3.
  • Added a new data transformer to handle special values in a better way.
Distributed SystemsData IngestionMap-ReducePerformance OptimizationData Engineering

Microsoft

2 roles

Software Engineer II

Dec 2022 – Oct 2023 · 10 mos

  • Worked on Azure Files : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction
  • Did performance and validation testing for features to be integrated into the product
  • Worked on a feature that halves the storage requirement of data for certain tiers
Performance TestingValidation TestingAzure FilesCloud & Infrastructure

Software Engineer

Mar 2022 – Dec 2022 · 9 mos

  • Working on new features for Azure Files
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/storage/files/storage-files-introduction
Azure FilesFeature DevelopmentCloud & Infrastructure

Hcl engineering and r&d services

Software Engineer

Oct 2020 – Mar 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

  • Worked on development and containerization of applications running on HPC clusters.
  • Responsible for development of proof of concepts and research for features to be integrated in the applications running across multiple nodes in a cluster.
  • Gained extensive experience on Docker, Singularity as Container Technologies.
  • Gained knowledge regarding fundamentals of Distributed Systems and applied it on the job
ContainerizationHPC ClustersDockerSingularityCloud & Infrastructure

Indian institute of technology bhubaneswar (iit bhubaneswar)

Teaching Assistant

Jul 2018 – May 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Education

Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar (IIT Bhubaneswar)

Master of Technology - MTech — Computer Science

Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

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