Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• I Manage the Database Observability Team at Solarwinds
• We are a team of 16 members across India, Europe and the Americas
• We provide insights into the database and how the queries can be improved using indexing etc
• We are also working on a Query optimiser project using Query LLMs from AWS Bedrock

Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

• ▸ Led a 16-member global team spanning India, Europe, and the Americas to deliver database observability insights. ▸ Delivered actionable query optimization recommendations (indexing, query plans) for enterprise database customers. ▸ Spearheaded a Query Optimizer project leveraging AWS Bedrock Query LLMs, applying generative AI to database performance management.

Nov 2018 – Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• I was part of the Uber's Cloud Infrastructure team
• I led a team that build a Monitoring tool for Uber's Cloud
• We also built a Data model for our SSDs to predict fault in our SSDs and also their longevity
• My team was recognised by Uber's CTO for this project
• Later I moved to Uber Marketplace team
• We built tools that improved the MTTD and MTTM outages by almost 50%
• Areas of interest: Performance Benchmarking, Anomaly Detection, Monitoring, Automation, Hybrid Cloud

Nov 2018 – Jun 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos

• ▸ Core member of Uber's Cloud Infrastructure team; led the development of a large-scale cloud monitoring platform. ▸ Designed a predictive data model for SSD fault detection and longevity estimation — project recognized by Uber's CTO. ▸ Transitioned to Uber Marketplace team and built tooling that reduced Mean Time to Detect (MTTD) and Mean Time to Mitigate (MTTM) outages by ~50%. ▸ Areas of expertise: Performance Benchmarking, Anomaly Detection, Monitoring, Automation, Hybrid Cloud.

Aug 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · On-site

• Founded and built the Zerostack's automation team(15 people) across India and US
• Worked on distributed Storage file system called Ceph
• Contributed to Openstack's storage driver called Cinder

Aug 2016 – Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos

• ▸ Founded and built ZeroStack's automation team, scaling it to 15 engineers across India and the US. ▸ Worked on distributed storage with Ceph and contributed to OpenStack's storage driver (Cinder).

Apr 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

• Worked as a Senior Staff for Nimble Storage
• I developed an IO tool similar to FIO(Flexible IO)
• This tool is used for IO benchmarking for Nimble SSDs
• This tool also detects any data corruption issue
• It also classified the issue as either SSD/HW issue or Nimble stack issue
• It was a very popular tool across Nimble's Eng and Sales Eng team

Apr 2014 – Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• ▸ Developed an IO benchmarking tool (similar to FIO) for Nimble SSDs — adopted widely across Engineering and Sales Engineering teams. ▸ Tool detected data corruption issues and automatically classified them as SSD/hardware vs. Nimble stack problems.

Aug 2011 – Apr 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos · Santa Clara County, California, United States · On-site

• Worked with Data Domain's automation team
• Automated code coverage report and defect detections

Nov 2010 – Jul 2011 · 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• I was part of the Nvidia's Tegra Chip Team
• I worked on developing the kernel drivers for different camera sensors
• Also worked on chip bring-up using FPGA
• Used hw debugging tools like Trace-32, oscilloscope during the same
• Worked on camera features like AWB, Auto Focus etc

Jun 2006 – Nov 2010 · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• I was one of the founding members of Samsung's Memory Division in India
• I worked on Samsung's oneNAND and MoviNAND Flash devices and developed drivers for the same
• Worked on Flash file systems like JFFS2 and YAFFS
• Developed a flash file-system debugger to analyse a dump
• We came up with a very efficient algorithm to obtain the file-system hierarchy tree structure
• Submitted an internal paper in Samsung based on this algorithm