Software Engineer working on scaling a layer 1 blockchain technology

Explored starting up my own company. Had a great experience diving deep into several promising domains, evaluating several approaches to starting up, working with individuals with varied expertise, developing prototypes, pitching ideas to VCs, etc..

Though my plans did not materialize this time, I believe, trying to start up is like placing a highly asymmetric bet. If you win the payoff is huge, if not you win anyways with the experience of the journey.

Distributed database powering LinkedIn’s Economic Graph

• Designed and implemented data service software for a distributed in-memory database (cache) in Couchbase data platform. As core part of this, designed and implemented a complex data structure for fast read, write and replication of data.

• Improved the performance of data replication in Couchbase (distributed NoSql database) by implementing aggressive but adaptive flow control policy.

• Improved the memory management of online data replication in Couchbase server by fixing a critical live-lock that would occur with high data density.

• Identified and solved critical locking issues that arise in multi-threaded systems.

• Solved challenging issues arising due to asynchronous replication and data de-duplication.

Developed software for light version of MLME (MAC Layer Mgmt Entity), an IEEE 802.11 MAC protocol, on mobile devices for roaming from one AP (access point) to another.