Resume
Work Experience
Airbnb (Dec 2022 - Present)
- 2025 - ML Infrastructure: Inference
- Designed and orchestrated(WIP) multi-cluster Blue-Green migration for 500+ ml models with 0 downtime
- Engineered adaptive failure over strategy for migration with minimal client side latency impact
- 2023 - 2024: Storage Infrastructure
- From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store
- Architected adaptive rate limiter handling 10M+ QPS from thousands of clients.
- Reduced overload cascades and improved tail latency via hotkey detection with request coalescing.
- Building a Next-Generation Key-Value Store at Airbnb
- Migrated 1+ petabyte of KV store across thousands of tables with zero downtime.
- From Static Rate Limiting to Adaptive Traffic Management in Airbnb’s Key-Value Store
Stripe (Dec 2021 - Nov 2022)
- TL for ChangeData Capture from Online DB to Data Warehouse (Parquet S3 objects)
- Enabled and optimize data-layout to improve fraud detection, reconciliation, and analytics from days to hours
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
- Architected Disaster Recovery (DR) for multi-data center replication
- Developed QOS for bandwidth management and data rate auto-tuning, USPTO:10911372
- Rolled out Data At Rest Encryption for 5000 customers/ 20,000 clusters
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 and published joint paper on Multi-Armed Bandit for Caching
- 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
- 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)