Rahul Chunduru

Software Engineer

Santa Clara, California, United States3 yrs 9 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expertise in Distributed Systems and Cloud Computing.
Developed innovative SaaS solutions for data management.
Proven track record in optimizing database performance.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Infrastructure specialist with a focus on Distributed Systems.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCloud Computing

Other Skills

C++AWSMongoDBSparkElasticsearchGo (Programming Language)Amazon Web Services (AWS)Data StructuresJavaAndroid StudioSoftware

About

I am passionate about Distributed Systems, Data Management, Cloud Computing, and Generative AI. At UW-Madison, I worked with Prof. Xiangyao Yu to optimize and benchmark Hermes, a novel HTAP Database. As part of course projects, I worked on long-text summarization and prompt-to-VR scene generation using LLMs. As a storage engineering intern at Nutanix, I worked on developing a Fallocate API for faster overwrites to the Nutanix distributed file system that touches all layers of the critical IO path. Previously, as a Research Engineer at Cohesity, I worked on building the Data Hawk Initiative (SaaS) for DSPM, Anti Ransomware capabilities from scratch. I have also co-authored two Differential Security papers with Prof. Manoj Prabhakaran during my undergraduation at IIT Bombay. Overall, I strive to be an empathetic engineer, actively exploring exciting software opportunities that align with my interests.

Experience

Nutanix

3 roles

Member of Technical Staff 3

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos · San Jose, California, United States

Member of Technical Staff - 2

Jun 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Jose, California, United States

Distributed SystemsC++

Storage Engineering Intern

May 2023 – Aug 2023 · 3 mos · San Jose, California, United States · Hybrid

· Implemented a Fallocation API for faster first writes to Nutanix distributed file system.
· Improved I/O performance for initial writes to Nutanix Objects store by 23 %.

Distributed SystemsC++

University of wisconsin-madison

Teaching Assistant

Aug 2022 – May 2024 · 1 yr 9 mos · Madison, Wisconsin, United States

TA for the following undergraduate courses at UW-Madison.
CS 320 - Data Science for python
CS 537 - Intro to Operating Systems
CS 240 - Intro to Discrete Mathematics

Distributed SystemsC++

Cohesity

Research Engineer

Aug 2020 – Aug 2022 · 2 yrs · India

· Data Hawk Initiative: Designed and Implemented a SaaS product for anomaly detection and user behavior analytics. Ensured scalability for ingesting various cloud trail logs using AWS lambda up to 100 GBs/day/customer.
· Data Compliance: Designed a rule-based compliance engine leveraging ANTLR, MongoDB and Spark to enforce regulations based on data sensitivity, and PII among other signals and provide real-time alerts via Elasticsearch.
· Low-latency Queries: Achieved sub-second query latency using Trino engine on tiered data across Kafka and AWS S3

Distributed SystemsCloud Computing

Google

Summer Intern

May 2019 – Jul 2019 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

· Authored a failure recovery pipeline for Google Gpay’s money lending transactions, enhancing system reliability.
· Addressed server failures and vendor unavailability, targeting a significant 37% reduction of customer issues.

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