# Abhinav Duggal

> Software Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhinavduggal

Specialties: Distributed systems, Key Value stores, Filesystems, Garbage Collection, Deduplication, Operating Systems, Computer Architecture, Algorithms, Performance characterization and Optimization

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Building the next generation of DynamoDB storage

### Distinguished Engineer @ Dell EMC
Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara
-Working as an architect building next generation deduplication distributed filesystem

-Architect and lead for building distributed log service and distributed key value store for the distributed deduplication filesystem

-Designed and implemented a scalable and fault tolerant distributed log service 

-Designed and implemented a distributed key value store with Raft consensus protocol and a custom storage engine on top of low latency media storage
-Designed distributed key value store on top of object storage using distributed log service and modifying RocksDB to run on top of object storage
-Implemented a highly scalable multi-Raft consensus library

-Part of a three-member architecture team that architected and prototyped the next generation distributed deduplication filesystem

-56 Patents granted and 27 patents pending with USPTO

### Technical Staff @ Dell EMC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked as the lead for garbage collection

### Consultant Software Engineer @ Dell EMC
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara
Worked on Garbage Collection and deduplication

### Principal Software Engineer @ Dell EMC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Software Engineer @ Dell EMC
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Worked as component lead for metadata consistency checker for our deduplication filesystem

### Associate Principal Engineer @ Dell EMC
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dell EMC
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Research Assistant, Filesystems and Storage Lab @ CS, Stony Brook
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Stony Brook University
Worked under the guidance of Prof. Erez Zadok towards an MS thesis on algorithms for finding data races in the Linux kernel using dynamic offline analysis.

### Software Intern @ Apple, USA
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
Worked in Dtrace

### Software Engineer I @ STMicroelectronics
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
Worked in Linux Kernel


## Education
### MS in Computer Science
Stony Brook University

### B. Tech in Information Technology
Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abduggal
- Portfolio: http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/~abhinav

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Last updated: 2026-04-12