Rohan Khanna

Software Engineer

Seattle, Washington, United States7 yrs 4 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building exabyte-scale storage infrastructure.
  • Secured 3 patents for innovative deployment strategies.
  • Contributed to significant open-source projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in AI and distributed systems.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

StorageArtificial Intelligence (ai)Full-stack DevelopmentInfrastructureMicrosoft AzureDistributed SystemsApi Development

Other Skills

Software Infrastructurec++DatabasesDesign PatternsBack-End Web DevelopmentC#GraphQLASP.NET MVCData Warehouse ArchitectureLow LatencyRelational DatabasesProject ManagementSoftware DesignEngineeringReliability

About

Software Engineer at Meta building exabyte-scale blob storage infrastructure that powers photos, videos, and media across Meta's Family of Apps—plus unstructured data for AI Infrastructure and thousands of internal use cases. Currently focused on modernizing storage infrastructure for the AI era and make blob storage AI native. Previously at Microsoft, where I secured 3 patents for dark deployment of infrastructure changes. My open-source contributions: github.com/Azure/data-api-builder Let's connect if you're passionate about AI alignment, distributed systems, storage, or infrastructure at scale.

Experience

7 yrs 4 mos
Total Experience
11 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 2 mos
Current Experience

Meta

Software Engineer

Apr 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Bellevue, Washington, United States · On-site

  • Building and running Meta's exabyte scale blob storage infrastructure for all media (photos, videos) on Meta's Family of Apps, and unstructured data for AI Infrastructure and 1000s of internal use-cases.
  • 1. Designed/Implemented a replication strategy to more optimally store replicas and backups to save meta millions of dollars
  • 2. Optimized restores from backups to restore by offset in disks as opposed to restore entire files delivering massive savings on restore I/O.
  • 3. Provision regional blob storage to support checkpointing for AI workloads with O(ms) read/write latency.
  • 4. Workflow that can run claude sessions in parallel across multiple tmux windows and give users status (executing, waiting, done) on what their claude sessions are doing in different tmux sessions
Software InfrastructureDistributed Systemsc++StorageArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Nov 2024 – Apr 2025 · 5 mos

Full-Stack DevelopmentDatabasesAPI DevelopmentInfrastructureDistributed Systems

Software Engineer II (L62)

Aug 2023 – Nov 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos

Microsoft AzureInfrastructureDatabasesDistributed SystemsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Design Patterns+3

Software Engineer II

Sep 2022 – Aug 2023 · 11 mos

  • As a member of the Microsoft Azure Data team, I was the 4th engineer to join the team as we strove to build out the graphql and functions experience in microsoft fabric: https://build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/aaf701bf-3f86-4bc4-ba27-e2a4a6155edb?source=/favorites. Helped design the solution from an idea on a whiteboard to a fully fledged experience used by millions of customers on microsoft fabric.
  • Engineered the system design and development for the initial MVP offering of GraphQL, laying the foundation for future enhancements.
  • Conducted market and customer research to tailor the MVP to meet specific customer needs, ensuring high user satisfaction.
  • Developed core features, including the core system design of the product on Microsoft Fabric, SQL DB support, data warehouse support, and multiple database support over a single GraphQL instance.
  • Open source code development on azure data api builder: https://github.com/Azure/data-api-builder
Microsoft AzureDatabasesASP.NET MVCData Warehouse ArchitectureAPI DevelopmentLow Latency+4

Software Engineer

Jul 2020 – Sep 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Designed and implemented infrastructure to follow a progressive exposure strategy to rollout sharepoint online features through different regions.
  • Built tool that could help Livesite engineers detect changes made to product during a specified timeline. tool helped reduce time to investigate for many incidents from over 4 hours to less than 15 minutes.
  • Built tooling that could help developers light up features on specific VMS, with ability to rollback in case of regressions.
  • Contributor to three msft patents

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

2 roles

Distributed systems course assistant

Feb 2020 – May 2020 · 3 mos

  • Responsible for holding office hours to explain concepts of distributed systems to students. Graded exam papers and homeworks

Ece 391 operating systems undergrad TA

Aug 2019 – May 2020 · 9 mos

  • Held office hours to help students understand operating systems concepts.

Microsoft

Software Engineer Intern

May 2019 – Aug 2019 · 3 mos · Redmond

Apple

Software Engineer Intern

Sep 2018 – Dec 2018 · 3 mos · Cupertino

  • Identifying, reproducing, and isolating bugs using debugging and performance analysis tools for Mac.
  • Setting up Web servers to visualize the tests done. Exploring to ensure functionality of the wireless features of the Mac.
  • Developing Python based scripts to automate some of the tests

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

data structures course assistant

Jan 2018 – Aug 2018 · 7 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

  • Part of exams dev group. Held labs and office hours to help clarify concepts of data structures

Innovation lab graybar inc

Software Developer Internship

Jan 2018 – Aug 2018 · 7 mos · University of Illinois Research Park

  • 1. Setting up API's needed by company
  • 2. Working to create efficient Voice Enabled Technologies
  • 3. Data Analysis
  • 4. Web development
  • 5. Blockchain

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Intern

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos

University of illinois at urbana-champaign

PURE- research

Aug 2016 – Dec 2016 · 4 mos · Urbana-Champaign Area

Worked under a professor (rem koning) at stanford

Research Assistant

May 2015 – Feb 2016 · 9 mos

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Master's degree — Computer Science

Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor's degree — Computer Engineering

Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

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