Mukul Kumar Singh

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India16 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 10 years of experience in storage systems.
Led multiple Apache projects in distributed systems.
Expert in building and mentoring engineering teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in distributed storage systems and open source software development.

Contact

mksingh1987@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsLeadershipFile SystemsTechnical Leadership

Other Skills

AlgorithmsApache HadoopApache OzoneApache RatisC++Cache ModuleConsensus ProtocolData Storage TechnologiesData StructuresDebuggingDistributed FileSystemDistributed Object StorageEclipseFilesystem DesignHadoop

About

I am an engineering leader who has experience in building highly motivated engineering teams. I have successfully bootstrapped the engineering team from scratch and successfully worked on developing a highly motivated team. I have been working on Storage Systems and File systems for 10+ years. I have worked in various roles as Engineering Manager, Open Source Contributor, Researcher, Software Developer. I have experience working on Distributed Filesystems(HDFS) and Objects Stores(Ozone) and also on Distributed Consensus protocols(Raft) as well. Currently I am leading the HDFS team at Cloudera Bangalore. I have also worked with Nimble Storage and NetApp and worked on WAFL and CASL filesystems respectively. Technical Skills - C, Perl, Python, Java

Experience

16 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

3 yrs 10 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

Senior Engineering Manager, Cloud Platform

Aug 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

I lead the Cloud Platform team which manages the Metrics and logs for Confluent Cloud

Cloudera

3 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Jul 2022 · 1 yr

I am currently leading the Storage Platform team in Cloudera Bangalore. Currently leading the effort on
a) Apache Ozone (Distributed Object Storage)
b) Apache Hadoop (Distributed FileSystem)
c) Apache Ratis (Consensus Protocol)
I also contribute to actively to the above Apache projects too.
My list of open source contributions can be found here
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-11387?jql=assignee%20in%20(msingh)
Github
https://github.com/mukul1987

Engineering Manager

May 2018 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

The apache software foundation

3 roles

Apache Ratis PMC & Committer

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

Apache Ratis is an open source implementation of Raft Protocol.
https://raft.github.io/raft.pdf

Apache Hadoop PMC & Commiter

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

Apache Ozone Committer and PMC

Dec 2016 – Present · 9 yrs 6 mos

Netapp

Member Technical Staff IV

Nov 2015 – Nov 2016 · 1 yr · Bangalore

I worked as a Technical Leader with the filesystem team (WAFL) at NetApp. My area of interest were
1) Worked on next generation extent based filesystem MetaWAFL
2) Scaled the number of volumes from 1000 to 2500, and increase of 150 percent
3) Technical Leader responsible for mentoring, designing and planning of projects in the team

Nimble storage

Senior Software Engineer

Jun 2014 – Nov 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Jose

I worked in the CASL filesystem team and worked specifically on the Cache module. As part of this
1) Worked on volume pinning (http://info.nimblestorage.com/rs/nimblestorage/images/nimblestorage_technology_overview.pdf)
2) Worked on redesigning of the buffer cache module in the filesystem

WAFLFilesystem DesignTechnical LeadershipFile Systems