Experience

Member of Technical Staff - 2 @ Nutanix

November 2025 - Present | Bengaluru, India

Building distributed database internals and an AI-driven log analysis and triage platform over cluster telemetry, spanning the storage data path and ML-based observability at scale.
Designed an anomaly-detection pipeline over high-volume system logs and metrics that flags node failures and performance regressions before customer impact, cutting mean-time-to-detection by ~45% across n-node production clusters.
Optimized the distributed store layer to sustain higher query and ingestion throughput under load, reducing steady-state service CPU by ~1 core per node on large-scale clusters.
Reduced read ops/sec against the backing key-value store through query optimization and access-pattern changes, improving overall query latency by ~40%.
Built a CLI-based cluster-health diagnostic tool that shortened average oncall root-cause time by 2 hour per incident and reduced repeat escalations.
Partner with AI and platform teams to move anomaly models from offline evaluation into the live distributed data path with acceptable latency budgets.

November 2023 - November 2025 | Bengaluru, India

Core Data Path (Storage) team, building and debugging the distributed file system that backs Nutanix’s hyperconverged storage, writing performance-critical C++ on the read/write I/O path.
Cut p99 read latency and root-caused recurring production performance regressions oncall.
Diagnosed and fixed a class of crash-consistency and data-integrity (corruption) bugs surfaced under node-failure and power-loss injection, hardening recovery correctness under high-concurrency conditions.
Shipped durable fixes, reducing repeat incidents in the storage stack.

September 2022 - December 2023 | Bengaluru, India

Developed and maintained the Linux kernel device driver for MaxLinear’s WiFi 6E chipsets, running low in the stack from mac80211 kernel interfaces down to firmware interaction.
Implemented and upstreamed driver features for WiFi 6E (6 GHz band operation, 160 MHz channels), writing production C against the Linux mac80211 framework across 4 hardware revisions.
Debugged complex issues (kernel panics, memory corruption, and race conditions on RX/TX paths) using kernel crash dumps, ftrace, and perf.
Improved driver throughput and connection stability by tuning buffer management and interrupt handling, contributing to a measured ~15% throughput gain on 6 GHz benchmarks.
Reduced driver initialization and firmware-load time by ~20% by restructuring the probe sequence, improving cold-boot experience on gateway devices.
Collaborated across hardware, firmware, and QA teams to bring up and validate WiFi 6E functionality on 3 new board designs.
Wrote regression tests and spoke at the Bangalore Linux Kernel Meetup on kernel driver work, alongside contributors from IBM LTC and AMD.

June 2023 - August 2023 | Online

Built a converter bridging the Linux perf tool and the Firefox Profiler. Profiles captured with perf can now be explored in the Firefox Profiler’s interactive flame-graph UI.
Designed and implemented a perf-to-Gecko converter that transforms perf script output into the Firefox Profiler’s Gecko JSON profile format.
Built the converter using the perf script Python API to walk samples, call chains, and symbol/DSO metadata.
Handled symbol resolution, kernel vs. user-space frames, and deduplicated string/frame tables to keep output correct and compact.
Added a lightweight local server to host the converted profile and open it directly in the Firefox Profiler, removing the manual export/import step.
Worked in the open through the upstream kernel workflow: patch series on the mailing list, review cycles with maintainers. Merged and shipped in Linux 6.6.

March 2023 - May 2023 | Remote

Modified driver code to accommodate dt-bindings and defined the necessary bindings for proper device tree integration.
Improved understanding of networking code, learned how to use semantic patching tools, and developed driver code along with corresponding device tree bindings.
Expanded knowledge and skills as a Linux kernel developer, preparing for future contributions to the open-source community.

April 2022 - September 2022 | Bengaluru, India

Studied and got familiar with the IEEE 802.15.4 Standard.
Implemented multiple access techniques for wireless communication on MATLAB/Simulink.