The Registry
A chronological log of professional engineering history, humanities degrees, expeditions, and local trekking.
- M.A. Psychology · Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)
Currently pursuing a Master of Arts degree in Psychology.
- M.A. Ancient History and Archeology · Karnataka State Open University, Mysore
Master of Arts degree in Ancient History and Archeology studies.
- B.Sc. Mathematics · Annamalai University
Earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.
- P.G. Diploma in Professional Counseling and Psychotherapy · Kuvempu University
Post Graduate Diploma focusing on professional counseling and psychotherapy practices.
- B.E. Electronics and Communications · SJCE, Mysore (affiliated to VTU)
Completed Bachelor of Engineering studies in Electronics and Communications.
- Junior Diploma in French · Mysore University
Completed a Junior Diploma program in French language studies.
- State Representative · Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO)
Represented Karnataka state at the Indian National Mathematical Olympiad (INMO).
- Alpine Boot Camp
Completed Alpine Boot Camp training.
- Basic Mountaineering Course (BMC) · ABVIMAS
Completed Basic Mountaineering Course.
- Kang Yatse II Summit (6250m)
High-altitude mountaineering expedition.
- Yunam Peak Summit (6111m)
High-altitude mountaineering expedition.
- Khalindi Khal (5980m)
High-altitude pass crossing expedition.
- Kilimanjaro Summit (5895m)
High-altitude climb of the highest peak in Africa.
- Stok Kangri Summit (6153m)
High-altitude mountaineering expedition.
- AlbumFS
A local user-space FUSE filesystem designed to mount external media collections and present them organized by date metadata, providing an instant chronological index.
- Local Trails
Exploring the local mountain ranges.
- Principal Engineer · Appomni, Inc. (Deel EOR)
Early India team member leading Django upgrades, re-architecting the external ticketing framework, and expanding SaaS app integrations.
- Principal Engineer · Balbix, Inc.
Developed AWS/GCP/Azure cloud connectors and achieved CIS Cloud Benchmark certification.
- Staff Engineer 2 · Cohesity, Inc.
Squad lead for DevX team who architected/implemented an internal DCIM system saving $1M+ and upgraded codebase-wide legacy Go dependencies.
- Senior Staff Engineer · Qubole, Inc. (now Idera, Inc)
Managed the Productivity Dev team, built statistics-based cloud spend reduction tools, and designed a self-service feature rollout system.
- Staff Engineer · Hortonworks, Inc. (now Cloudera, Inc.)
Developed k8s-based Quality as a Service platforms, improved CI health analytics, and optimized engineering practices.
- Staff Engineer · VMware, Inc.
Led DaaS Engineering Operations, built an end-to-end hotfix manager, improved vCloud Connector network resilience, and built test teams.
- SDET · Amazon.com, Inc.
Owned automated policing quality for Product Ads and developed statistics-based ML classifier validation frameworks.
- Member Technical Staff · Netapp, Inc.
Led Multiprotocol Fileservice Auditing test/automation efforts and built automated test case generation tools.
- Senior Quality Engineer · RSA, the Security Division of EMC
Developed multi-platform client/server automated testing frameworks for RSA Key Manager.
- Engineer · Gluster, Inc.
Core developer/tester for GlusterFS and GlusterHPC, awarded 'Hacker of the Month' for benchmarking, debugging, and QA automation tools.
- Product Engineer · Analog Devices, Inc.
Validated SHARC DSPs on ATE, created a statistical wafer yield estimation methodology, and developed memory-saving vector compression utilities.