Product guy now building a business, hoping to stand on the shoulders of the channel to outdo the big guns.

Co-founder & CEO @ Nutanix is building the software-defined computing platform for next-generation data centers that will be scale-out, flash-enabled, and converged. Data centers of the future will run on commodity x86 servers, with most services being virtual (software-defined), and will span the realm of public and private clouds. From September 2009 to Present (6 years 4 months) Vice President, Engineering @ Big data player acquired by Teradata. From February 2009 to September 2009 (8 months) Director of Engineering @ http://www.asterdata.com http://www.asterdata.com/blog From September 2007 to February 2009 (1 year 6 months) Software Development Senior Manager @ The Oracle storage engine manages all of persistent data kept within the database: from tables to indexes to SecureFiles to indexed clusters. I led the development of Storage for Oracle Exadata, Oracle SecureFiles, Advanced Compression, and world record TPC results, among other things. From July 2003 to September 2007 (4 years 3 months) Senior Software Engineer @ Worked on Zambeel's Aztera Cluster Fileserver in various engineering projects (metadata server, performance, rawdata server, storage networking). From 2000 to 2003 (3 years) Software Developer @ Was part of the core development team that developed the Trilogy Backbone. My primary dev responsibilities were the Workflow Engine and the Java-COM Bridge. From January 1999 to March 2000 (1 year 3 months)

MS (Ph.D. dropout), Computer Science @ University of Texas, Austin From 1997 to 1998 BS, Computer Science @ Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur From 1993 to 1997