Sonu Pillai

CTO

Menlo Park, California, United States15 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Proven leadership in engineering and software development.
  • Expertise in virtualization and cloud computing.
  • Strong background in database management and performance optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS engineering leader with a strong focus on virtualization and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

VirtualizationDatabase ManagementCloud ComputingLinuxCC++

Other Skills

AgilityPerformancePerlFUSEVolume Shadow Copy ServiceStorageSystems ProgrammingShell ScriptingVisual StudioOperating SystemsMySQLWindowsUnixJavaScriptDistributed Systems

Experience

15 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs 6 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Redpanda data

Engineering Leader

Sep 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Confluent

Engineering Manager

Feb 2019Feb 2024 · 5 yrs

Delphix

2 roles

Engineering Manager - Quality

Promoted

Jul 2015Jan 2019 · 3 yrs 6 mos

Senior Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2012Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • We help companies like TiVo virtualize their database infrastructure, so they can accelerate application rollouts and development. With our database virtualization software, DBAs can instantly refresh or provision virtual databases that operate in 1/10th the space, with improved agility, manageability, and performance. Customers choose Delphix for the following IT priorities: private clouds for databases, extending virtualization to databases, controlling data growth and storage spending, and application or database upgrades, such as EBS or SAP upgrades. Here’s an article that describes what we’ve done working with TiVo:
  • http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9215537/TiVo_virtualization_project_speeds_insight_into_TV_viewers

Linsyssoft technologies

Software Engineer

Feb 2009Nov 2009 · 9 mos

  • · Cloud Management with High Availability
  • Developed a tool in Perl language for management of services and virtual containers over a Cloud of Initiators and Targets using OpenSAF, a high availability framework on Linux.
PerlCloud ComputingLinux

Izel technologies pvt. ltd.

Software Engineer

Jun 2007Jan 2009 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • · Data Backup at Block Level
  • Developed modules in C for accessing snapshots, mounting the Full Backup Image using FUSE, reading
  • Filesystems like EXT2-3 for different purposes with respect to the backup process on Linux, exporting the backup image as a disk to a Vmware virtual machine.
  • · Volume Shadow Copy Service - QA
  • Responsible for testing Hardware provider built by the team to be used by the Volume Shadow Copy service provided by Windows in C++ to provide mirroring at Hardware level on the server side.
CC++FUSEVolume Shadow Copy Service

Education

Rutgers University

M.S — Computer Science

Jan 2010Jan 2011

Savitribai Phule Pune University

B.E — Information Technology

Jan 2003Jan 2007

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