I am a Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services working in the Core Storage Team, Aurora Database Storage. The team works on a scalable and self-healing log store which supports multiple database engines.

I have a PhD in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University and have worked in the Hopkins Storage Systems Lab (HSSL), under the guidance of Prof. Randal Burns. My research interests lie in leveraging emergent technologies such as micro-services, containers and object storage to enable cloud based big data applications. In the past, I have worked as a Research Intern at Lawrence Livermore National Lab on integrating burst-buffers with an object store based file-system and as a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research Almaden, San Jose on an user-space file system over an object-store. I have also played an important role in developement of the Neurodata Project (formerly called the OpenConnectome Project) which is a data-intensive cloud based web service for analyzing petabytes of Neurosciene data and was later adopted by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory as bossDB. You can download my latest resume here and access my technical publications here.