Sankaran Sivathanu

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India15 yrs 7 mos experience

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Key Highlights

Expert in storage performance optimization for large-scale systems.
Led impactful projects at top tech companies like Google and Amazon.
Ph.D. focused on storage performance in virtual environments.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Expert with a focus on storage and virtualization.

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Distributed SystemsComputer ScienceStorageCStorage VirtualizationOperating SystemsScalable ArchitecturesScalabilityVirtualizationCloud ComputingUnix

About

My interests are in the design, development and performance optimization of large scale systems infrastructure. I focus on storage aspects in particular with a holistic view of the system stack, which is often required for optimizing a system for better I/O performance. Extensive experience in virtualization and storage systems. My Ph.D. thesis is in the field of storage performance in virtual environments.

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 11 mos

Current Experience

Google

Engineering Manager

May 2024 – Present · 1 yr 11 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

Search Serving Infra, part of Search Platforms

Amazon

Software Development Manager

May 2020 – May 2024 · 4 yrs · Tamil Nadu, India

I spent about 3 years in the Alexa Communications organisation leading the Alexa-to-phone calling and messaging initiatives. Among other things, my team shipped the feature that lets T-Mobile customers to use Alexa to make & receive calls through their T-Mobile cell network.
I also worked in the AWS OpenSearch organisation for about a year working on efficient data plane deployment systems that scales to hundreds of thousands of OpenSearch customers.

Rubrik, inc.

Senior Engineering Manager

Apr 2018 – May 2020 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led development teams to ship high-impact products viz. Managed Volumes - a generic storage target for ingesting data from different applications into Rubrik (for subsequent data-life-cycle management), and data protection for SAP HANA databases and VMware vCloud Director vApps.

Vmware

4 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2016 – Mar 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Staff Engineer

Feb 2014 – Feb 2016 · 2 yrs

Tech lead for performance optimisation efforts in the VMware's traditional FS stack (VMFS) and distributed storage stack (VSAN)

Sr. MTS

May 2011 – Feb 2014 · 2 yrs 9 mos

MTS Intern

May 2010 – Aug 2010 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Designed and built an I/O trace replay application that adapts its pace of replay according to the capabilities of the system in which it is replayed. This work appeared as a poster in USENIX FAST 2011 conference. This product is widely used by multiple teams within VMware for performance evaluations and it is also part of VMware IOAnalyzer product.

Nec laboratories america

Research Intern

May 2009 – Aug 2009 · 3 mos · Princeton, New Jersey, United States

Worked on storage system power management which included analytical modeling of power consumption and corresponding performance variation of storage systems with respect to workload characteristics. I created a tool that takes specific workload metrics and storage layout information and computes approximate power consumption and expected performance.