# Shriganesh S. Shintre

> Staff Engineer @Apple Cloud Infra | Distributed Systems |  Backup & Recovery

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/shriganesh

Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems and core infrastructure platforms powering multi-petabyte storage services. Recognized for innovation, technical leadership and operational excellence in building reliable, high-throughput backend systems serving billions of operations per day.
- Part of Apple Cloud Infrastructure team building distributed, ordered key-value metadata store to power Apple's Object Storage.
- Hired, onboarded, and scaled the Box Drive team from 2 to 13 engineers in 9 months, defining the team's charter, and ensuring the on-time, high-quality delivery of Box Drive 2.24.
- Strong C++, Java programming and debugging skills; experience with Python.
- Experience with Scrum – Agile Software Development and fast paced startup environment
- Awards and recognition
-- @Box – In Jan-2020 received a blow our customers minds’ award for going above and beyond to resolve a customer issue
-- @Box – 1st place winner of 2019 companywide Hackathon in Enterprise Grade category
-- @Box – winner of Oct-2017 Clients/PE Departmental Hackathon in Tools and Automation category
-- @Quantum – for consecutive years (2014 and 2015), received “Reward and Recognition Award” in recognition of outstanding achievements and contributions to Quantum's success.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2022 – Present | California, United States
As a part of the Apple Cloud Infrastructure team, building a distributed, ordered key-value metadata store, serving billions of operations per day to power Apple’s Object Storage platform.

### Technical Lead @ Box
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the effort to completely re-build the Box drive on brand new file provider framework. This new version (release notes and blog post provided in media section) of Box Drive provides more seamless and secure access on Intel and Apple Silicon devices and no longer requires use of kernel extensions.
Technologies – MacOS file provider, C++, Python, Objective-C, Swift.
● Hired, onboarded, and scaled the Box Drive team from 2 to 13 engineers in 9 months, defining the team's charter, and ensuring the on-time, high-quality delivery of Box Drive 2.24
● Led research, with proof of concept, to estimate and plan the timeline (2 years) for GA release.
● Kept the project execution on track by proactively communicating progress, scope increases and roadblocks with upper management. Served as scrum master. Use of story pointing, estimations and tracking velocity helped us to 
 ▪ Proactively allocating resources,
 ▪ Establishment of formal and efficient process to communicate with Apple file provider team,
 ▪ Early prioritization and scope cutting for focused execution.
● Achieved 200% more efficient meetings by formalizing processes such as defining meeting agenda with time distribution, leveraging relative story sizing, optimizing meeting participation etc.
● Led the design and development of bidirectional syncing file system to and from Box and desktop along with seamlessly syncing changes namely new file creates, edits, renames, moves and deletes.
● Achieved 99.3% decrease in load time for Box drive by identifying and fixing lock contention. This allowed us to increase the max tree size limit by 5x.
● Design and development of most customer voted search in folder feature, to scope the search inside specific folder in Box drive. Now the search results are 100% relevant and 70% faster.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Box
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the efforts to move in-house dev infrastructure to public cloud.
Technologies – HashiCorp’s Packer and Terraform, Ansible, Infrastructure as Code, Python, AWS EC2, OpenStack.

● Inspired the company-wide dev infrastructure move to public cloud –
   ▪ Addressed security compliance needs to run in public cloud,
   ▪ Achieved 50% cost reduction in AWS-EC2 by reducing resource usage,
   ▪ Working on leveraging auto-scaling to optimize the cost.
● Achieved fully-automated recycling of 100s of ClusterRunner nodes with zero downtime, by building robust automation around Packer and Terraform.

### Principal Software Engineer @ Quantum
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on adding features to StorNext cluster for log collection, log analytics and usage statistics.
● Enabled analysis and graphical representation for StorNext NAS-stack cluster’s usage and health log.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Quantum
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
I was part of the team who designed, developed and delivered StorNext FlexTier's first version (1.0) to support AWS public cloud. I extensively worked on adding support for AWS - Simple Storage Service (S3), S3 Infrequent Access and Glacier.
Technologies – C, Python, Amazon AWS Object Storage S3-Standard/IA/Glacier, Laravel - PHP framework, JavaScript, PostgreSQL, RESTful API’s, iSCSI, Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), Exchange 2013, VMware VIX API, PowerShell scripting, SVN, JIRA.

● Led research and prototyping of new cloud storage destination using AWS-S3 Infrequent Access (Standard – IA) storage class. Achieved on average 25 to 50% cost reduction for archival data.
● Developed backend for a browser based administrative portal. Achieved 85% reduction in page load time using server-side caching.
● Led architecture, development and delivery of following features
   ▪ Product trial version creation and usage monitoring for potential customers.
   ▪ Alert mechanism to track, report and manage system failures and resource usage.
   ▪ Microsoft Exchange Mailbox level restoration: A user-friendly mechanism for mailbox recovery from backup Exchange Database File (.EDB). This feature achieves 70% reduction in network and storage utilization.
● Enhanced security by providing two levels of authentication for accessing iSCSI targets.
● Initiated development of iPhone App for administrative portal. Presented prototype of working app.

### Software Engineer @ CA Technologies
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Orange County, California Area
Grid OS - 3tera AppLogic enables cloud computing and utility computing services (SaaS, IaaS) for running and scaling web applications. I have worked on and added multiple features to AppLogic since 2.x releases as listed below. VP of Engineering appreciated my work with highest rating - ‘Exceeded Expected Results’ - during FY2013.
Technologies – C, C++, Linux Kernel, Xen and VMware Hypervisors, mdadm, Perl, shell scripting.

● Released a completely revised and stable grid operating system within 6 months with upgraded Linux kernel 3.0 and Xen 4.1.
● Added support for 100+ network and disk hardware e.g. added support for Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) hardware.
● Handled customer escalations with respect to kernel crashes and device driver bugs. Provided timely resolutions and hotfixes along with documentation and support.
● Achieved accountability of resource (CPU, memory, network) usage to support QoS and SLA.

### Jr. Software Engineer @ 3tera
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Orange County, California Area
3tera was acquired by CA Technologies.
I was part of core development team for AppLogic grid operating system.
Technologies – C, C++, Linux Kernel, Xen Hypervisors, mdadm, shell scripting.

● Enabled VPS (Virtual Private Server) service for Windows Servers by developing turnkey VM images.
● By using Windows Server Core Installation, reduced the size of boot disk by 66%. This helped in significantly fast deployment of Windows filer VMs.
● Reduced recovery time by 75% for mirrored RAID volumes with degraded streams using bitmap mechanism.

### Development Intern @ BakBone Software
Jan 2008 – Jan 2008 | Greater San Diego Area
As part of summer internship, I worked on development of Microsoft Outlook message backup and recovery module.
Technologies – C, C++, Win32 service.

● Designed and developed EML file parser and Windows Service.
● Optimized search functionality for backup MS Exchange messages.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Symphony Services
Jan 2003 – Jan 2007 | Pune Area, India
I was part of an offshore development team for SAN based storage startup offering CDP (Continuous Data Protection) functionality.
Technologies – C, C++, VSS, MSCS, SAN, RAID, SCSI.

● Worked on VSS integration for applications e.g. MS Exchange.
● Added High Availability feature for CDP functionality using Microsoft Cluster Server (MSCS).


## Education
### MS in Computer Science - Distributed Systems
University of Southern California

### BS in Computer Science
Savitribai Phule Pune University

### Apte Prashala

### New English School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12