Member of the Stream Governance team, owning Schema Registry end to end across Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud, including the cloud control plane plus fleet deployment, lifecycle management, and operations of Schema Registry.

• Served as Technical Lead for adding Private Link support to Confluent Cloud Schema Registry (https://docs.confluent.io/cloud/current/sr/fundamentals/sr-private-link.html). Led end-to-end design and implementation of high-impact capabilities including cross-region connectivity and a migration path to enable Private Link in existing environments. Delivered the feature set from Early Access through Limited Availability to General Availability.

• Served as Technical Lead for Schema Registry integration with Unified Stream Manager (https://www.confluent.io/blog/introducing-unified-stream-manager/), enabling a unified hybrid Schema Registry experience across Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud. Designed and implemented a high-performance, secure request-forwarding module for read and write traffic between on-premises and cloud, and delivered a pull-based schema-linking mechanism that enables hybrid deployments without requiring inbound ingress into customer environments.

• Collaborated with Cloud Platform and Cloud Infrastructure teams to build Confluent for Kubernetes/CFK(https://docs.confluent.io/operator/current/overview.html), a Kubernetes-based control plane for Confluent private-cloud deployments, with the goal of delivering an operational experience comparable to Confluent Cloud . Delivered Custom Resource Definitions (CRDs) for Cluster Linking (https://www.confluent.io/blog/hybrid-cloud-data-management-with-confluent-kubernetes/) and Schema Linking, along with platform-critical enhancements including certificate rotation and dynamic certificate reloading in Kafka.

Worked on the Cloud Data Management (CDM) team, focused on host-based and NAS-based data management.

• Technical Lead and core developer for NAS Direct Archive, enabling archival of petabyte-scale datasets to the cloud while maintaining constant space usage on the Rubrik cluster. Two issued patents.

• Technical Lead for large-file sharding to improve scalability for multi-terabyte files. Originated the approach, built the initial prototype as a solo hackathon project (selected Top 3), and led the effort to productize and ship it. One issued patent.

• Technical Lead and developer for optimized hard-link support across filesystem and NAS data management, improving correctness and efficiency for link-heavy workloads. One Issued patent.

• Technical Lead for a testpoint framework to inject faults into end-to-end tests in production-like environments. Originated the idea, implemented it as a solo hackathon project, and integrated it into the product, significantly improving coverage of real-world failure scenarios.

• Re-architected the filesystem and NAS stack to a new foundation to support deduplication and improve performance and stability.

• Implemented performance and memory optimizations for remote backup agents using batching and write-back mechanisms, enabling reliable operation on filesystems with hundreds of millions of files.

Worked on the Tintri Filesystem team, focused on performance, security, and platform reliability.

• Developed a zero-block optimization framework for the Tintri filesystem, reducing storage and write amplification for sparse workloads. One issued patent.

• Designed and implemented software-based encryption for the filesystem to eliminate dependency on self-encrypting drives (SEDs) and enable FIPS compliance.

• Built a FIPS-compliant encryption library on top of OpenSSL and led Tintri’s FIPS certification efforts.

• Delivered write-path enhancements and performance optimizations to improve throughput and latency under heavy workloads.

• Mentored two summer interns, guiding feature prototyping and technical execution.

• Developed an NVRAM performance utility to evaluate NVRAM performance and prototype optimizations.

Worked on the Data Domain Filesystems group, responsible for the core filesystem stack used across all EMC Data Domain appliances.

• Prototyped a distributed, multi-node Data Domain archiver to improve scalability and throughput.

• Implemented support for Unstable Streams (NVRAM bypass) in DDFS to enable protocol-specific write semantics, including CIFS/SMB workloads.

• Redesigned the deduplication domain key-value store to be resilient to enclosure failures, strengthening durability for security-critical metadata including encryption keys.

• Worked on performance enhancements to File Manager which is the VFS layer for Data Domain File system stack.

Worked on the Yahoo! Mail backend team, focused on the metadata storage and retrieval layer that powers core Yahoo! Mail experiences.

• Delivered enhancements to the metadata platform, including lease server improvements, compact indexing, and cheap copy support in the Yahoo! Mail Metadata API.

• Designed and implemented a Lucene index migration for the My Photos (Xoopit) application within Yahoo! Mail, improving indexing reliability and maintainability.