Professional Experience

14+ years of experience in large-scale networking, distributed systems, infrastructure, and security engineering

Core Skills

CC++PythonJavaRustPHPLinuxGitDockerKubernetesThriftCI/CDSoftware EngineeringNetwork EngineeringReliability EngineeringSoftware ArchitectureSystems EngineeringKernel EngineeringDistributed SystemsData Center InfrastructureSecurity Engineering

Senior Staff Production Engineer

Meta (Facebook)

Feb 2015 – Present

Architecting mission-critical disaster recovery systems and hyperscale data center infrastructure. Founding contributor to industry-defining open-source systems (OpenBMC, FBOSS). Technical authority driving reliability engineering practices across large, cross-functional organizations.

Key Achievements:

  • Architected Meta's next-generation disaster recovery infrastructure, enabling recovery from catastrophic failures within hours (previously not possible)
  • Founding team member of OpenBMC, establishing the industry-standard open-source framework for next-generation system management
  • Core architect of FBOSS, Meta's open-switching system that evolved data center networks from 10G to 400G, enabling 40x bandwidth scaling
  • Designed and deployed novel security access-control infrastructure, reducing standing privileged access by 40%+ through fine-grained, policy-driven controls
  • Led a reliability engineering transformation across 90+ teams, driving organization-wide improvements in observability, MTTR, MTTD, deployment safety, disaster recovery, and overload protection
  • Served as technical authority and cross-organizational advisor on systems design, failure modeling, and infrastructure security

Production Engineering Intern, Networking

Facebook (Meta)

May 2014 – Aug 2014

Designed and developed Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM) infrastructure for FBOSS, delivering the first optical health monitoring solution across data center switches.

Key Achievements:

  • Built monitoring agents and signal-collection pipelines enabling automated alerting and large-scale diagnostics
  • Implemented the FBOSS CLI, creating the first operator interface for switch interaction over Thrift for programmatic inspection and debugging
  • Partnered with networking and hardware teams to validate optical metrics and diagnose hardware anomalies

Software Engineer II, Hero Team

Cisco Systems

Aug 2011 – Jun 2013

Developed core system components for Cisco ASR 9000 series routers, reducing critical bugs from 80% to 0.1%.

Key Achievements:

  • Led hardware and software bring-up for ASR 9001 and ASR 9922, accelerating validation cycles from months to weeks
  • Designed and implemented automated test frameworks from scratch, achieving 90%+ test coverage
  • Integrated SNMP/XML-based management interfaces, increasing early defect detection
  • Recognized with five Performance Awards and a Cisco Star Award

Education

Master of Science in Computer Science (Computer Networks)

University of Southern California

2013 – 2014

GPA: 3.79/4.0

Bachelor of Technology in Information Technology

Vellore Institute of Technology

2007 – 2011

GPA: 9.06/10