I love understanding, designing, and building distributed systems. I particularly love diving deep into the details of a system to solve hard problems, be they protocol correctness bugs, consequences of emergent properties, or performance issues.

Experience

YugabyteSoftware Engineer

2023 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

MetaStaff Software Engineer

2016 — 2023

Menlo Park, CA

Systems I've worked on:

Synapse, a horizontally-scalable distributed database using leader-less Paxos

Everstore, Meta's replicated and disaster-tolerant blob store that holds all user photos and videos

Prospector, Meta's distributed product recommendation system

Rex, a peer-to peer high-fanout data distribution library (100K+ nodes)

Hewlett Packard EnterprisePrincipal Research Scientist

2015 — 2016

Palo Alto

Creating HP's The Machine, HP's new rack-scale computer based on persistent memory

HPPrincipal Research Scientist

2002 — 2015

Palo Alto, CA

Large-scale backup deduplication (petabytes of enterprise backup data)

Efficiently transferring data across low-bandwidth connections

Improving database performance using more/persistent memory

Reliability of SSDs and databases under power faults

Peer-to-peer and security

Delivering personalized ads with perfect privacy and economic incentives to avoid spam

Reducing risk due to policy-violating information flows

Compaq Computer CorporationResearch Scientist

1998 — 2002

Palo Alto, CA

Education

Carnegie Mellon University

MS

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Experience+3

Education

MS

2 BS's

Experience