Experience

Lightup Data

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and VP Engineering

  • Apr 2019 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area Bringing order to data chaos! Data observability and Data Quality monitoring delivered! Are you data driven but unable to trust your data? Lightup's automated data quality platform takes a few minutes to setup and monitors your data to make sure your data metrics are staying healthy. Integrates with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, Presto, Postgres, MySQL and many other data sources. Funded by Andreessen-Horowitz (https://www.a16z.com) and Spectrum 28… Show more Bringing order to data chaos! Data observability and Data Quality monitoring delivered! Are you data driven but unable to trust your data? Lightup's automated data quality platform takes a few minutes to setup and monitors your data to make sure your data metrics are staying healthy. Integrates with Snowflake, Redshift, BigQuery, Databricks, Presto, Postgres, MySQL and many other data sources. Funded by Andreessen-Horowitz (https://www.a16z.com) and Spectrum 28 (https://www.s28capital.com). Show less



Uhana

• VP Engineering

  • Dec 2016 - Apr 2019

  Palo Alto, CA Acquired by VMware. Predictive control plane for mobile networks - An AI/ML streaming data pipeline for network and application optimization. - Scaled product platform to support 1+ million EPS using Kafka, Heron and Cassandra. - Built out and ran incredible engineering team around founding team - mix of software, data science, wireless and video. Tripled team size over 2 years. - Implemented software development lifecycle, release planning and execution, operational… Show more Acquired by VMware. Predictive control plane for mobile networks - An AI/ML streaming data pipeline for network and application optimization. - Scaled product platform to support 1+ million EPS using Kafka, Heron and Cassandra. - Built out and ran incredible engineering team around founding team - mix of software, data science, wireless and video. Tripled team size over 2 years. - Implemented software development lifecycle, release planning and execution, operational improvements. - Large scale devops pipeline using Jenkins, Docker, Ansible, CloudFormation. Monitoring using Prometheus and Grafana. - Ran multiple POCs and production trials with large operators optimizing networks and improving video application performance on their networks. - Landed major deal with key Telco and moving platform into production deployment for an entire continent! Show less



VMware

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Director

  • Aug 2012 - Nov 2016

  Palo Alto NSX Ran the platform team responsible for all common components for the NSX - distributed datastore, large scale messaging, API, application infrastructure, appliance management, lifecycle management and all test frameworks - developer as well as quality engineering. Corfu, LevelDB, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, Swagger and many other tools. Team size: 80+ engineers, 3 Sr. managers, 1 Director. Ran the NSX controller, KVM, ToR integration and clustering teams. Team size: 40+ engineers, 2… Show more NSX Ran the platform team responsible for all common components for the NSX - distributed datastore, large scale messaging, API, application infrastructure, appliance management, lifecycle management and all test frameworks - developer as well as quality engineering. Corfu, LevelDB, RabbitMQ, Zookeeper, Swagger and many other tools. Team size: 80+ engineers, 3 Sr. managers, 1 Director. Ran the NSX controller, KVM, ToR integration and clustering teams. Team size: 40+ engineers, 2 Sr. managers Managed all NSX-MH releases covering NSX-MH controller, NSX-MH manager and OVS in VMware. Delivered the world's first scale out network control plane, integrated NSX with ToR switches and truly separated control plane from data plane. Implemented operational layer over Zookeeper to shrink wrap it. More details at: Network virtualization in multi tenant datacenters: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi14/technical-sessions/presentation/koponen. Team size: 30+ engineers Product went from single digit millions in revenues to 1B! Show less



Nicira

• Computer Networking Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jul 2011 - Aug 2012

  Palo Alto, CA Acquired by VMware. Nicira delivered network virtualization software that enabled scale out and elastic data centers. I worked with Nicira's founders from the early days on joint closed sourced projects as an engineer at Google. Till it became clear that this was an opportunity to change the status quo. I managed the kickass NVP network controller team at Nicira. Wore all sorts of hats around the product. Ran releases, worked with customers, delivered new features, improved… Show more Acquired by VMware. Nicira delivered network virtualization software that enabled scale out and elastic data centers. I worked with Nicira's founders from the early days on joint closed sourced projects as an engineer at Google. Till it became clear that this was an opportunity to change the status quo. I managed the kickass NVP network controller team at Nicira. Wore all sorts of hats around the product. Ran releases, worked with customers, delivered new features, improved quality, hired more kickass engineers, increased test coverage and moved scale by 100x over 2 years (https://web.archive.org/web/20180127114948/http://networkheresy.com/2013/05/30/scale-sdn-and-network-virtualization/). Team size: 16 Virtualizing the Network Forwarding Plane: http://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/virt-presto.pdf Onix http://yuba.stanford.edu/~casado/onix-osdi.pdf Changed the world! Show less



Open Networking Foundation (ONF)

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member of Technical Advisory Group

  • Jan 2010 - Jul 2011

  Palo Alto Founding member of the technical advisory group for ONF. Co-authored the OpenFlow 1.1 specification and lead various presentations around the creation of OpenFlow 1.1. Earlier, was involved in the later stages of OpenFlow 1.0. Perhaps why I probably won't go the standards route while developing any technology!



Google

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Engineer

  • Oct 2006 - Jul 2011

  Mountain View, CA Designed, implemented and led various proprietary networking software projects for Google's datacenter and WAN networks. Worked with network architecture, network operations, datacenter staff, software/hardware engineers, mechanical engineers and project managers to productionize solutions. Of the disclosed projects .. Tech Lead for B4 - ran the project till the first few datacenters went live (B4 is described in this paper… Show more Designed, implemented and led various proprietary networking software projects for Google's datacenter and WAN networks. Worked with network architecture, network operations, datacenter staff, software/hardware engineers, mechanical engineers and project managers to productionize solutions. Of the disclosed projects .. Tech Lead for B4 - ran the project till the first few datacenters went live (B4 is described in this paper http://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.com/en//pubs/archive/41761.pdf) Key contributor on Firehose 1.1, Watchtower and Saturn (described in this paper http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2015/pdf/papers/p183.pdf) Show less



Foundry Networks

• Computer Networking Products
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Technical Leader

  • Nov 2001 - Sep 2006

  Santa Clara, CA Acquired by Brocade. Architected and implemented the entire L2 stack including L2 forwarding and a bunch of protocols (STP, RSTP, MSTP, PVST, LLDP and other proprietary protocols MRP, SuperSPAN, VSRP). Also implemented hitless upgrade and VRRP. L2 was the most commonly deployed feature set and the stack was the basis for the BigIron and NetIron products.



Tasman (formerly Tiara) Networks

• Software Engineer

  • Aug 2000 - Oct 2001

  San Jose, CA Acquired by Nortel Networks. Implemented forwarding and protocols on a software packet processing stack for a broadband access router. Designed and implemented base features in IP forwarding, quality of service, DHCP relay as well as more innovative features for the multi-tenant usage.