# Praveen Yalagandula > Engineer at Glean; Co-founder at MerQube Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/praveenyalagandula I am broadly interested in computer networks and distributed systems. Most of my work has been in designing, developing, and deploying scalable distributed systems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Glean Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States ### Co-Founder and CTO @ MerQube Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area MerQube is an innovative index provider offering design and calculation solutions for the financial and insurance industries. Launched in 2019 in New York and San Francisco by a team composed of index industry veterans and technology experts, MerQube was created as a technology-driven alternative to existing providers. MerQube designs and calculates a wide variety of indices covering multi-asset, equities, futures as well as options. Leveraging cloud-based architecture and today's most advanced index-tracking technology, MerQube's platform enables its clients to bring ideas to market quickly and efficiently. ### Sr. Director of Engineering @ Avi Networks Jan 2013 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area As one of the founding engineers, I was the lead for the Data Analytics (Logs) subsystem of the product. I also worked on OpenStack integration and Control Plane optimization. I also led the design and development of the SaaS platform for the Avi Networks' Control Plane. ### Principal Scientist @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Palo alto, CA ElasticSwitch: An efficient and practical way to provide bandwidth guarantees for cloud computing. It is efficient as it utilizes unreserved and unutilized bandwidth in the network (work conserving). It is practical as it can be deployed with commodity networking hardware. ### Senior Research Scientist @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Jan 2008 – Jan 2013 NetLord: A novel network virtualization technique for multi-tenant virtualized cloud data centers that scales to a large number of servers, tenants, and virtual machines at a low cost. SPAIN: A multi-pathing technique for achieving high bisection bandwidth in data center networks with arbitrary topologies built using commodity switches. DevoFlow: An approach to scale Software Defined Networks (e.g., OpenFlowTM) while balancing the visibility into the network traffic with the control overhead of fine-grained traffic management. Mahout: An end-host based approach to effectively detect and manage only elephant flows for scalable traffic engineering in data center networks. ### Research Scientist @ Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Jan 2005 – Jan 2008 Scalable Sensing Service (S3): An infrastructure and algorithms for fine-grained and flexible monitoring of large-scale wide-area networks. Moara: A scalable querying system for efficient handling of queries over data at subsets of nodes in the system. Shruti: An adaptive algorithm for dynamically adjusting the update propagation based on the queries received in a large scale monitoring system. PRISM/INSIGHT/STAR: Algorithms for determining precision of results returned in a large scale monitoring system and trading off the precision for network overhead. ### Lecturer @ San Jose State University Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | San Jose, California Designed and taught this introductory upper-division undergraduate class on computer networks. Prepared lecture notes, created programming assignments, created several in-class quizzes, two midterms, and a final exam, and evaluated students’ submissions. ### Research Intern @ Intel Pittsburgh Jan 2004 – Jan 2004 Analyzed machine availability traces from three large distributed systems to understand machine failure characteristics such as correlation in failures, correlation in recoveries, relation between MTTF, MTTR, and availability, and predictability of failures and recoveries. ### Research Intern @ HRL Laboratories, LLC Jan 2001 – Jan 2001 Developed a set of fault-tolerant gateway selection algorithms for ad hoc component of heterogeneous networks to handle gateways with fail-stop faults and byzantine faults in large ad hoc networks. ### Research Intern @ Cadence Design Systems Jan 1999 – Jan 1999 | Berkeley, California Developed and implemented algorithms for efficient state space search that aid in the verification of hardware digital designs. ## Education ### Ph.D. in Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin ### M.S.E. in Computer Engineering The University of Texas at Austin ### B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur ### Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya - JNV ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ypraveen --- Source: https://flows.cv/praveenyalagandula JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/praveenyalagandula/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11