Rahul Rane

Senior Software Engineer

San Jose, California, United States13 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Built a high-performance Rust-based key-value store.
  • Optimized shard management reducing downtime by 35%.
  • Designed scalable authentication for major data infrastructure.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with expertise in Distributed Systems and Cloud Solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsData InfrastructureFile SystemsCloud Solutions

Other Skills

Apache HelixZookeeperRustKey-Value StoreShard ManagementBlob StorageDynamic Load BalancingAuthenticationAuthorizationCache Accelerated Sequential LayoutMulti-threaded ProgrammingFilesystem DevelopmentDeDuplication EngineBackup SolutionsGranular VM Restore

About

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn | Ex-Facebook | Ex-HPE I have keen interest in solving problems ranging from core systems to distributed systems.

Experience

13 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 9 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Airbnb

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos

Linkedin

Senior Software Engineer

Feb 2022Jul 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).
Apache HelixZookeeperRustKey-Value StoreShard ManagementDistributed Systems+1

Facebook

Software Engineer

Jul 2020Feb 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.
Blob StorageDynamic Load BalancingAuthenticationAuthorizationDistributed SystemsData Infrastructure

Nimble storage, acquired by hewlett packard enterprise company in 2017

Software Developer

Feb 2019Jul 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.
Cache Accelerated Sequential LayoutMulti-threaded ProgrammingFilesystem DevelopmentFile Systems

Vmware

Summer Intern - MTS (VMKernel Core team)

Jun 2018Aug 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.

Stony brook university

Graduate Student

Aug 2017Dec 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.

Druva

Software Engineer

Mar 2015Aug 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.
DeDuplication EngineBackup SolutionsGranular VM RestoreCloud Solutions

Calsoft

Development Engineer

Jul 2013Mar 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.
UCCI FilesystemiSCSI ImplementationGlobal Cloud NASFile Systems

Eklat labs

Project Intern

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

Education

Stony Brook University

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Jan 2017Jan 2018

Pune Institute of Computer Technology

Bachelor's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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