Rohit Shekhar

Founder

San Francisco, California, United States16 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

10+ patents in data infrastructure.
Expertise in causal analysis for observability.
Led multiple successful startup journeys.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused architect with deep expertise in data infrastructure and observability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data InfrastructureObservabilityWeb3Scalable StorageMessaging SystemsData ServiceMachine LearningDistributed Data BackupData RecoveryHigh AvailabilityBig DataCassandraPerformance AnalysisStorage VirtualizationCore Storage Software

Other Skills

Causal analysisTelemetry noise reductionDeduplicationFile SystemsiSCSINASClusterLinuxScalability

About

Distributed Systems Architect turned Founder. I have spent the last decade building the "plumbing" of the modern data stack from storage and scale-out architecture to cloud-native infrastructure. As an early engineer at Rubrik and Nutanix, and through four successful startup/pre-IPO journeys, I saw firsthand how data volume explodes and observability breaks. Now, I am building Chiron to solve this. We are applying deterministic principles to observability, moving from "guessing" with probabilistic AI to "knowing" with causal analysis. Core Focus: Deep Systems, Data Infrastructure, Storage, and AI-Native Observability. Track Record: 10+ Patents, industry-first solutions, and a history of solving 0-to-1 platform challenges.

Experience

16 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 8 mos

Current Experience

Chiron

Founder and CEO

Sep 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Architecting the deterministic core of Chiron's sub-second reliability engine while driving a Founder-led commercial strategy. Enabling enterprises to replace probabilistic guessing with causal certainty to safely discard 99% of telemetry noise.

Data InfrastructureObservability

Zettablock

Architect and Engineering Head

Feb 2023 – Jan 2024 · 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Leading Architecture of Data Infrastructure for massive adoption of Web3 and also rockstar Zettablock engineering teams

Data InfrastructureWeb3

Confluent (ipo - cflt)

Principal Engineer

Oct 2019 – Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

I am leading efforts in providing highly scalable storage for messaging system

Scalable StorageMessaging Systems

Salesforce

Principal Software Engineer

Aug 2016 – Oct 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Design and development of Data Service for Salesforce internal Cloud. The first part of my tenure was in designing and developing a self-managed block store. We migrated a subset of redundant salesforce production loads on these blocks. In the second part, I lead the effort for designing and developing of next-generation Machine Learning's (Salesforce Einstein) internal metrics pipeline.

Data ServiceMachine Learning

Datos io, inc. (acquired by rubrik).

Technical Director

May 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Lead efforts to design and develop end to end, scaleout distributed data backup and recovery platform.
Solved problems related to performing consistent backup and recovery of eventual consistent data which required developing large-scale stream processing and data ingestion pipeline, massively parallel processing data infrastructure and SLA based distributed system guarantees.

Distributed Data BackupData Recovery

Bluedata, inc (acquired by hp enterprise)

Architect

Aug 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Mountain View

Typical early stage startup work. Multiple roles as an architect, design engineer & developer.
Worked on optimized I/O stack and caching services for Big data workload from virtual machines.
Lead design and development efforts for pure software based platform high availability feature.

High AvailabilityBig Data

Nutanix (ipo - ntnx)

MTS - Developer

Mar 2012 – Jul 2013 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Worked on re-deisgn, development and support of Write Ahead Log library on top of consistent Cassandra (paxos based) transactions.
Performance analysis and improvement of Cassandra n/w layer.
KVM support for the product and also wrote miscellaneous tools and feature for progress tracking.

CassandraPerformance Analysis

Ibm

Advisory Software Engineer - Development Lead

Aug 2008 – Feb 2012 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Pune

Worked as Development lead for IBM's SVC & Storwize products. Involved in designing and development of core storage software stack in the area of Storage Virtualization. Some of the projects were
HA iSCSI target, processing sequential I/O at wire speed(10G)
Distributed Metadata for efficiently tracking block lookup & update -- scalable up to the petabyte of storage.
Zone based space reclamation with fine granularity recovery and background compaction support.
Extensive performance analysis of end to end I/O stack.
Lead development teams to deliver projects in a timely manner.

Storage VirtualizationCore Storage Software