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    Bharat Naik

    Bharat Naik

    Distinguished Engineer, Commvault. Founding Engineer, Hedvig. Tinkering in Distributed Systems

    Software Architect Palo Alto Birla Institute of Te...
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    Experience
    Commvault
    Commvault
    Distinguished Engineer II
    Hedvig, A Commvault Venture. Same ambitious vision, standing on the shoulders of a giant
    Principal Engineer II 2019 - 2020 (about 1 year)
    Joined Commvault as part of the Hedvig acquisition.
    Immediate goal is to integrate the globally scalable, fault-tolerant, multi-cloud storage platform of Hedvig with Commvault... more to form the next generation product line.
    Long term goal is to enable Hedvig to be the storage underpinning of all enterprise grade workloads
    Commvault Systems
    Commvault Systems
    Distinguished Engineer II 2019 - Present (almost 7 years)
    (via Hedvig acquisition)
    Main Projects
    Main Projects
    Lead Architect and technical steward of the 2019 (about 1 month)
    Commvault Distributed Storage system underpinning the HyperScale X product line (multi-petabyte elastic on-prem storage infrastructure 7000+ customers 10000+ clusters) 1 of... more 4 Distinguished Engineers in the company (∼3000 employees) and reporting to the VP of Engineering I was the technical champion of the Hedvig team of 20 engineers liaising with the core Commvault team build out HyperScaleX which has had a $0 to $100M+ ARR growth in 3 years
    Self
    Self
    Distributed Erasure Coding 2019 (about 1 month)
    Distributed State Machine for Node Expansion (s) healing based on Rabin fingerprinting
    Hedvig
    Hedvig
    Founder, Founding Engineer/Principal Architect 2014 - 2019 (about 5 years)
    * Founded by the co-creator of Amazon Dynamo and Apache Cassandra, Hedvig was the world's only private, hybrid and multi-cloud data management platform * Involved in the early... more design and architecture of the platform as a Founding Engineer. Helped build it into an enterprise grade software, used by Fortune 100 companies in the US, EMEA and the UK * Oversaw all technical design decisions for enhancements to the core distributed storage platform, debugging and fixing complex bugs, architecture pres
    Hedvig
    Exit
    Hedvig
    Founding Engineer 2014 - 2019 (about 5 years)
    Acquisition
    Acquisition
    Sr Distinguished Engineer 2019 (about 1 month)
    $225M where I currently serve a Sr Distinguished Engineer.
    Intelligent Software Systems
    Intelligent Software Systems
    Professor Keshav Pingali 2013 - 2014 (6 months)
    * Worked on the development of a scalable distributed memory infrastructure for the Galois project. Galois, at the time, for shared memory machines, was a library of concurrent... more data structures and a runtime system that takes serial "Galoized" code and automatically parallelizes it for irregular algorithms such as those on graphs and trees.
    Parallel
    Parallel
    Professor George Biros 2012 - 2013 (6 months)
    * Worked on shared memory and hardware parallelization techniques, specifically using SIMD vectorization and OpenMP, for the Fast Multipole algorithm on the Intel Xeon Phi... more architecture (Stampede Supercomputer). Previously worked on parallel sorting algorithms across a cluster.
    Indian Institute of Science
    Indian Institute of Science
    Employee 2009 - 2012 (over 3 years)
    (IISc) Mentor: Professor Joy Kuri Fall 2011 * Moonlighted as an intern to explore security implementations in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), studying Physical Layer Security... more and Pairing based Cryptography Mathematics Department, BITS Pilani Mentor: Professor Ram Awtar Fall 2009 * Study of Algebraic Coding theory, specifically, Linear and Cyclic codes for encoding and decoding information sent across a noisy medium (ex. Wireless Communications)
    netapp india
    netapp india
    Member of Technical Staff - II 2010 - 2012 (about 2 years)
    * As part of the WAFL FileSystem group, contributed to the development of a scalable infrastructure to efficiently perform snapshot operations * Designed a refinement of the... more snapshot creation/deletion schedule enabling an intelligent and more predictable recovery point
    chennai
    chennai
    Professor Samir Datta 2009 (about 1 month)
    * Designed, implemented and simulated a novel address-centric re-routing protocol for WSNs, achieving an optimal tradeoff between buffer size, drop rate and delay Centre for... more Software Development, BITS Pilani Mentor: Professor Rahul Banerjee Fall 2008 * Worked on Project STIC-Tiny6, a collaborative project between France, China, India and Korea, involving the study of power aware routing algorithms for IPv6 enabled WSNs
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    Hedvig
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    chennai, netapp india, Indian Institute of Science, Parallel, Intelligent Software Systems, Acquisition, Hedvig, Self, Main Projects, Commvault Systems, Commvault
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    About
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    Built an enterprise grade, distributed storage platform from the ground up. Involved in all aspects of designing, architecting, build and managing the product. Eventually led it to a successful acquisition by Commvault
    Started as a Founding Engineer, rose through the ranks to be the Principal Architect, setting the technical direction/roadmap for the company. Continuing this post acquisition as a Sr. Distinguished Engineer.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Distributed Systems Java C++ Architect Coding Cryptography Data Management Debugging Infrastructure Load Balancing Management Security Software Software Development Wireless
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