Work Experience

Airbnb (Dec 2022 - Present)

• 2025 - ML Infrastructure
• 2023 - 2024: Storage Infrastructure
  • From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store
  • Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb

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)

• Thesis: Exploring Design Configurations of System Models: From Simultaneous Simulation to Search Heuristics.