Feb 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Sunnyvale, California, United States

• ◦ Core member of LinkedIn’s Data Infra Platform Services team, owning Apache Helix; contributed to optimizing
• shard management to handle disk failures, reducing downtime and shard movement by 35%.
• ◦ Led Zookeeper at LinkedIn, designing scalable authentication and group-based ACL authorization with minimal
• performance impact supporting major data infra services.
• ◦ Built a Rust-based, in-house key-value store from 0 to 1 at LinkedIn, offering strong per-key consistency, change
• notifications, and a total-ordered shared log, achieving 1M QPS writes with sub 10ms latency and ZK-equivalent
• read performance (1ms latency).

Jul 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States

• Worked on Facebook’s highly available, fault tolerant and highly scalable Blob Storage system that stores trillions of blobs and Exabytes of data. The system is extensively used by WhatsApp, Instagram, Facebook etc. Contributed to many features like dynamic load balancing, authentication/authorization in blob storage layer etc.

Feb 2019 – Jul 2020 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Jose, California

• Designed and developed large scale multi-threaded, multi-tiered software for Cache Accelerated Sequential Layout (CASL) filesystem and related features for the Nimble storage platforms. This includes adaptive flash-based hybrid as well as the all flash platform.

Jun 2018 – Aug 2018 · 2 mos · Palo Alto, California

• Contributed to Container Runtime for ESXi (CRX) project which provides execution context for running Linux ABI. Demonstrated the idea by running NFS-Ganesha and Samba directly on ESXi host.

Aug 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · Stony Brook, New York

• Associated with Filesystems and Storage Lab advised by Prof. Erez Zadok. I worked on DmDedup - Device Mapper Target for data Deduplication with metadata backends like in-RAM table, on-disk table and COW B-tree.

Mar 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

• Collaborated on the DeDuplication Engine project for cloud based backup solutions - "Phoenix".
• Responsible for developing backup and restore agents for File server and VMWare datacenters.
• Designed and implemented FLR - Granular VM restore solution using FUSE based lesystem.

Jul 2013 – Mar 2015 · 1 yr 8 mos · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India

• Involved in design and development of UCCI Filesystem which provides high performance caching
• component for the outside cloud storage.
• Implemented IETF RFC 3720 iSCSI to provide solution which conforms iSCSI target.
• Worked on Calsoft incubated asset Global Cloud NAS which provides global namespace where
• multiple types of le systems can federate to provide common global namespace.

Jun 2012 – Jun 2013 · 1 yr · Pune Division, Maharashtra, India