# Dhathri Purohith

> Software Engineer

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

My areas of interest include Computer Networks, Operating Systems and Distributed Systems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Confluent
Jan 2021 – Present

### Member Technical Staff @ Nutanix
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, CA

### Intern @ Dell EMC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California
Designed and Implemented Zdict, a dictionary data structure based on perfect hash functions to assist new Garbage Collection algorithms in Data Domain File System(DDFS). The memory overhead with Zdict is 30x less than traditional hash tables and still has O(1) lookup time.

### Graduate Research Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Austin, Texas Area
Conducted study to estimate energy consumed by storage subsystem on Android smartphones. Analyzed different IO patterns and the energy consumed by the smartphone on two different file systems - Ext4 and F2FS.

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ The University of Texas at Austin
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Austin, Texas

### Project Associate @ Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | Chennai
Proposed and implemented an architecture using the concepts of PMIPv6 and SDN for per flow user-session mobility between LTE (4G) and WiFi networks in the NS-3 simulator.
Developed an experimental testbed for the proposed architecture. The LTE network of the testbed is emulated using OpenLTE and the USRP hardware. The WiFi network is emulated using hostapd and dnsmasq in Linux.

### Member technical Staff @ NetApp
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Was responsible for the development and maintenance of L3 and L4 protocols - IPv4, IPv6, TCP/IP, RIP, RIPv2, LACP and TFTP.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin

### Master's degree in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Visvesvaraya Technological University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12