Kalp Jain

DevOps Engineer

San Jose, California, United States7 yrs 1 mo experience

Key Highlights

Expert in distributed storage and cloud-native databases.
Significant experience in improving storage system performance.
Strong foundation in database management and engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Database Engineer with expertise in cloud-native solutions.

Contact

kalp.jain@oracle.com +16082174808 LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsStorage SystemsCloud ComputingDatabases

Other Skills

C++Concurrent ProgrammingFile SystemsGo (Programming Language)Graph DatabasesObject StorageOperating Systems

About

Currently I work in Oracle MySQL Heatwave team. This is a ground-breaking product from Oracle shattering existing MySQL performances in any cloud. Please go through the following Forbes story to know more about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/moorinsights/2021/08/10/oracle-claims-leadership-in-cloud-data-warehouse-space-over-snowflake-with-its-new-mysql-heatwave-service/?sh=6ed04ed4108f I completed my Master in Computer Science at the University of Wisconsin Madison. I specialize in distributed storage, file systems, and cloud-native HTAP databases. My previous work experience at Nutanix in the Core Data Path Team, working on the Distributed Files and Object Storage team has provided me with a solid foundation in storage systems.

Experience

Oracle

IC 3

Jun 2025 – Present · 9 mos · Redwood City, California, United States · On-site

Working on building a Page Service for scaling InnoDB for a Cloud-Native MySQL database service.

Nutanix

Storage Engineering Intern

May 2024 – Aug 2024 · 3 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

Improved the memory footprint of the metadata service of the file system by implementing an on-demand deterministic mechanism for publishing failed metadata in RocksDB. Replaced periodic scans and writes with a Cassandra-based WAL approach for failed metadata entries, reducing memory usage by 30%.

Distributed SystemsC++Concurrent ProgrammingFile SystemsStorage Systems

University of wisconsin-madison

2 roles

Graduate Student Researcher

Promoted

Jan 2024 – May 2024 · 4 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Guide: Prof. Xiangyao Yu
Project: Cloud-native Hybrid Transactional and Analytical Processing Engine. The project aims to build a system for hybrid transactional and analytical processing without building a completely new database system.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2023 – Dec 2023 · 3 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Responsibilities: Holding office hours to aid students, Designing and grading assignments as well as exams, Grading Final Research Papers, and Holding discussion and review sessions.

Nutanix

Member of Technical Staff

Aug 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of the core systems group working on a Distributed Object Storage.

Cloud ComputingGo (Programming Language)Operating SystemsObject StorageC++Distributed Systems

Cisco

Software Engineer

Aug 2020 – Jul 2021 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of the Network Data Platform team responsible for developing a Distributed Time Series Graph Database for storing network data.

Operating SystemsDatabasesDistributed SystemsGraph Databases

Samsung electronics

Summer Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Noida

Worked on social Linking of mobile phone contacts, which primarily involved collection of data for a research based project by building a android APK consisting of various modules for collecting real time social data such as Call Logs History, SMS History, Gallery Images and Whatsapp Notifications for mobile phone contacts.
Aim was to classify contacts on basis of their closeness or social proximity to user, which can
work autonomously to provide links between each mobile phone contact of a user, as per the data collected from a user's mobile phone and stored locally in Android SQLite database.

Prastuti

Head of Online Coding Event

Mar 2019 – Mar 2019 · 0 mo · Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India

Technex, iit (bhu) varanasi

2 roles

Public Relations Executive

Mar 2018 – Mar 2019 · 1 yr

Public Relations Coordinator

Jul 2017 – Mar 2018 · 8 mos

Worked as a Public Relations Executive for the annual Techno-Management Fest Technex of IIT BHU for 2 years managing and leading a group of people responsible for conducting various guest lectures, exhibitions and different PR works of the fest