# Sachin Jain

> Principal Engineer / Architect

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/sachinjain

Specialties: Internet, Distributed systems, embedded systems, network protocols

## Work Experience
### Principal Engineer @ Cohesity
Jan 2015 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Current focus : 
Architect for data security features : Ransomware detection, Malware detection, Data classification on backup snapshots and integration with DSPM on primary.
Past projects : 
- Architect and development for a distributed task execution framework for scalable backup/recovery for various workloads (VMs, DBs, Filers) 
- Architect and technical lead for protection for all database workloads 
- Protection of cloud workloads (SQL on Azure, Azure AD)
- Architect for cohesity app marketplace which included a kubernetes infrastructure, saas marketplace and SDK for enabling running 3rd party applications on cohesity platform
- Implemented metadata store for cohesity file system (distributed key/value store using rocksdb)

### Principal Engineer @ Insieme networks/Cisco Systems
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | San Jose
Insieme networks was cisco funded startup building SDN switch for large data center. Acquired by cisco in Dec 2014. 

Principal architect and lead for building the scalable, distributed, fault tolerant SDN controller.
- Architect and tech lead for distributed No-SQL database for centralized controller (sharding, leader election, failover etc). 
- Architect and lead for multi-site configuration synching. 
- Scaled the controller to 400 switches and 1M endpoints.

### Staff Engineer @ Google
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | Mountain View, CA
- Lead for Stream quality for Google+ (Google’s social networking platform) : Improving the user experience of stream by filtering and personalized ranking of posts.
- Maps data acquisition : Special project (Ground Truth) to create and fix maps vector data for entire US. Smart tool for geo modelling making use of aerial, street view, output of various computer
vision processing.
- Tools/system to improve quality and precision of local business listing data. 
- Maps Wiki - End user can edit and fix maps data (http://www.google.com/mapmaker)

### Software Engineer @ Cisco systems, san jose
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006
Part of Data Center Business Unit. Designed/Implemented Private VLAN feature and part of architecting next gen ethernet for data center.

### Software Engineer @ Andiamo Systems/Cisco
Jan 2001 – Jan 2005
Cisco funded startup building Fiber channel switches for Data Center
Worked on routing protocol, infrastructure to maintain hardware routing tables, high availability infrastructure


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

### B. Tech. in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi

### High school
Delhi Public School - R. K. Puram


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12