# Bhinav Sura

> Infra @ Brex

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bhinav

Distributed Systems, Data Services at Scale, Software/Platform aaS.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Brex
Jan 2021 – Present

### Founder, General Partner @ Finizon Capital
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California
Knowledge Graph for ConvAl: Advancing conv AI efforts at FB, by helping build a better understanding of the people, places and things around a user

### Lead Software Engineer,  Infrastructure Engineering @ Salesforce
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California

### Senior Software Engineer,  Infrastructure Engineering @ Salesforce
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Lead developer on Argus, the metrics monitoring platform in use at Salesforce. Major deliverables include:

- Implement write-through cache for serving last n-hours of data from memory
- Time-series Federation
- Replace stateful (sessions) with stateless (tokens) auth mechanism
- Pipelined reads for larger time range queries

### Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering @ Salesforce
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developer on Argus, the metrics monitoring platform in use at Salesforce. Responsibilities include:

- Kafka backed Queuing Service to support 100M datapoints/min write throughput
- Multi-tenancy using Namespaces
- Metric Discovery and Wildcarding
- Apache Phoenix based TimeSeriesDB implementation
- Augment Argus Query Language for additional feature support
- Operationalize Argus for Beta use within Salesforce
- Open source Argus (https://github.com/salesforce/argus)

### Associate Software Engineer, Infrastructure Engineering @ Salesforce
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Developer on Argus, the metrics monitoring platform in use at Salesforce. Responsibilities include:

- Design and implement core business services
- Implement Argus Query and Transform Language
- Develop Notification framework for alerts
- Implement RESTFul web services
- Develop certain modules of UI using AngularJS

### Android Developer, Civil and Environmental Engineering @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Urbana-Champaign, Illinois Area
- Developer of TrafficTurk, a smartphone application for real time, high-density traffic sensing
- Count vehicles using swipes, analyze data on server for traffic flow modeling
- Also monitor the data in real time to provide feedback about traffic congestion
- 1st Experiment: Recruited 100 students to collect traffic data for the Illinois Homecoming Football game where we analyzed 250,000 distinct counts of vehicles and visualized them in real time
(http://engineering.illinois.edu/news/2012/10/26/new-traffic-management-system-be-tested-homecoming-crowd) 
- 2nd Experiment: Analyzed Traffic Data in New York City post hurricane Sandy
(http://www.scientificamerican.com/citizen-science/project.cfm?id=trafficturk-illinois-manhattan)
- Involved in developing tools for the project that help analyzing and visualizing the data we collect

### Java Performance Automation and Tools Developer Intern @ salesforce.com
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
- Time-series Data Integration into a tool used for Performance Analysis
- Parsed out time-series data of different metrics from XML/CSV files
- Developed Read/Write API to perform CRUD operations on time-series data
- Used HBase Cluster for storing high volume time-series data for faster retrieval
- Further optimized reads/writes by setting up a caching layer (Memcached)
- Provide dynamic charting framework to analyze time-series data for different metrics.


## Education
### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Computer Science
University of Mumbai


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bhinavsura

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Last updated: 2026-04-12