Experience
2021 — Now
2021 — Now
Tech Lead for P2P crypto payments, supporting mission-critical platforms processing $xxxB+ each year.
Worked on initiatives across various payment channels, including fiat rails and banking integrations, remittances, and peer-to-peer crypto experiences such as Send, Receive, and Request.
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
Mountain View, California
Worked on Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) which offers a comprehensive suite of productivity tools, including Gmail, Google Docs, Sheets, Calendar, Contacts, and more.
Developed the validation component for a Google Workspace data migration project for Enterprise users. My work focused on design, development and orchestration of a complex workflow, enabling efficient, fast, and large-scale validation of the migration process.
2018 — 2019
2018 — 2019
Spearheaded the establishment of the performance lab, infrastructure, and frameworks for measuring and detecting performance regressions across key features (data backup, replication, cloud archival, etc.) of the CDM (Converged Data Management) product. Identified bottlenecks across a complex technology stack, including data transfer agents, multiple protocols, network layers, and the distributed file system.
• Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Feature Development: Worked on the CDP feature, which enabled live I/O interception and streaming from VMware VMs to the CDM product. This solution facilitated near-synchronous data transfer with minimal application performance impact, achieving close to zero RPO. It also allowed recovery to any point in time, with second-level granularity. Led the testing aspects of this feature, including functional, stress, scale, performance, and UI testing. Responsibilities included test design, strategy development, tool and infrastructure creation, automation library design and implementation, and tools for measuring test effectiveness.
• Developer Productivity Improvements: Initiated and drove multiple projects to enhance test productivity and effectiveness within the Test Organization. Key projects included: Auto-Triage, Timestream for data generation and validation, cross-cluster comparison tools, ELK pipelines for real-time anomaly detection, automated build regression detection & rollback (Zion), and controlled chaos monkey-style frameworks (MayhemManager), among others.
2016 — 2018
2016 — 2018
Worked on the Filesystem and System Management parts of the stack, more specifically worked on a zero RPO disaster recovery feature along with support for snapshots and cloning. The feature supported synchronous replication of data across Vmstores in different datacenters. Led various aspects of the project. Responsibilities included:
● Contributing to the design and optimization of TxOS, a core storage operating system engineered to support diverse and dynamic virtualization workloads.
● Translating product and architectural requirements into scalable system designs, ensuring performance, fault tolerance, and maintainability.
● Architecting and implementing automation frameworks, infrastructure tooling, and developer libraries to enhance system validation, deployment efficiency, and observability.
● Developing diagnostic and monitoring solutions to evaluate system behavior under real-world workloads and identify opportunities for optimization.
● Collaborating closely with core systems and platform teams to address complex technical challenges, improve system robustness, and prevent regressions through proactive design and tooling strategies.
● Also worked on some special projects, including implementation of an Auto-triage tool that helped automate the first level triage performed across all the 2000 daily automated jobs run across the company
2014 — 2016
2014 — 2016
Sunnyvale, California
Worked as a part of the AltaVault group (cloud integrated storage appliance). The appliance functioned as a transparent hot cache + archival system (backed by 20+ different cloud storage providers). As a part of this role I was also instrumental in creating a new automation framework from the ground up. Responsibilities included maintaining the framework, implementing new functionality and integrating it into the existing ecosystem. Worked on a number of other functions such as, design, developing test plans, test strategies, developing tools and automating test-cases.
Education
Illinois Institute of Technology
Master of Science (MS)
Illinois Institute of Technology
BS
Fiitjee