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Work Experience

Airbnb (Dec 2022 - Present)

Stripe (Dec 2021 - Nov 2022)

  • ChangeData Capture from Online DB to Data Warehouse (Parquet S3 objects)
  • Enable and optimize data-layout to improve fraud detection, reconciliation, and analytics

Springpath (Acquired by Cisco) (Sep 2012 - Nov 2021)

  • Founding Engineer of Distributed Cluster Storage System (Hyperflex)
  • Worked with the team to grow the revenue from 0 → 500 million/year
  • Led/mentored a team of 6 - 15 engineers over various projects
  • Developed key components of a distributed clustered storage system, USPTO:9965203
  • Developed inline highly efficient deduplication based on zipf distribution, USPTO:10019459
  • Developed scalable distributed garbage collection using bloom filter, USPTO:9448927
  • Disaster Recovery (DR)
  • Developed QOS for bandwidth management and data rate auto-tuning, USPTO:10911372
  • Data At Rest Encryption

University of Florida (Aug 2013 - May 2020)

COURTESY Professor@CISE

  • An attempt to do academic research with 0$ funding (slow progress)
  • Mentor graduate PhD student
  • Instruct EEL-4736 when required

Atlantis Computing (May 2011 - Aug 2012)

  • Ensured improvement of performance (5x), reliability (raised to 5 9s), and scalability (1000s of desktop virtual machines) to the core deduplication based EXT3 filesystem of Atlantis ILIO
  • Developed integrity tools to verify ILIO filesystem consistency
  • Designed and productized new features (ILIO fastclone) that resulted in new product lines
  • Provided authoritative advice to CEO and CTO on technical matters
  • Led/mentored the entire development team (15+ engineers) (platform, control plane, UI and UX)

NetApp (Nov 2008 - Apr 2011)

  • Built inline lossless packet-capture and replay system for storage protocol analysis and testing, USPTO: 20140237115A1
  • Developed kernel engine for storage IO offload in ONTAP to support VMWare XCOPY Ported Google performance tools into NetApp storage controller OS (ONTAP)
  • Filed Virtualization related patents USPTO:10523786,9990257, 9383943
  • Mentored and fostered collaboration with 2 interns resulting in an academic paper and a patent

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

PhD, Computer Science (2003 - 2008)