Work Experience

• Senior Member of Technical Staff

  Nutanix, Seattle, WA: July 2015 to Present

  • API Gateway, Load Balancer, and Scalability
  • Xi Cloud - Disaster Recovery as a Service, Runbooks, Application-level NAT. Patent Granted.
  • Synchronous Replication DR, Witness based automatic failover. Patent Granted.

• Research Assistant

  File systems and Storage Lab (FSL), Stony Brook University, NY: September 2013 to May 2015

  [1] Arun Olappamanna Vasudevan. 2015. Finding the Right Balance: Security vs. Performance with Network Storage Systems. MS Thesis. State University of New York at Stony Brook.

  [2] Ming Chen, Erez Zadok, Arun Olappamanna Vasudevan, and Kelong Wang. 2016. SeMiNAS: A secure middleware for wide-area network-attached storage. In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International on Systems and Storage Conference, 1–13.

  [3] Ming Chen, Dean Hildebrand, Geoff Kuenning, Soujanya Shankaranarayana, Vasily Tarasov, Arun O Vasudevan, Erez Zadok, and Ksenia Zakirova. 2014. Linux NFSv4. 1 Performance Under a Microscope. In LISA, 137–138.

• Intern

  Nimble Storage, San Jose, CA: May 2014 to August 2014

  Performance improvements - Spin RW locks, Per-CPU reference counting

• Senior Software Engineer

  Toshiba, Bengaluru, India: Aug 2008 to July 2013

  • Android Tablet - PlayReady DRM Movie Player (Backend), OpenGL ES 2.0 Shaders for rendering TruNote™ stylus inputs
  • C Compilers for Toshiba Microcontrollers - Bug fixes, Optimizations

Education

• Master of Science in Computer Science, Stony Brook University, 2013-2015
• Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Trivandrum under the University of Kerala, 2004-2008

Publications and Patents

• Patent Granted: Scalable leadership election in a multi-processing computing environment, filed in Jan 2022.
• Patent Granted: Systems and methods for implementing address translation services, Nov 2021.
• MS Thesis: Finding the Right Balance: Security vs. Performance with Network Storage Systems, 2015.
• SeMiNAS: A secure middleware for wide-area network-attached storage, 2016.
• Linux NFSv4. 1 Performance Under a Microscope, 2014.

Open Source Contributions

• envoy: Support for x-forwarded-host header, Nov 2021
• libjwt: Fix test build error when 'libcheck' version < 0.9.10, Aug 2020
• cpplint: Fix typo in README, Oct 2019
• gRPC: Fix cmake build for gRPC_BUILD_CODEGEN=OFF, Mar 2019
• Protocol Buffers: Add overrides in C++ code, Nov 2018
• Protocol Buffers: pyext needs c++11 in linux and mac, Jul 2018
• NFS-Ganesha: Support stacking multiple FSALs, Oct 2014
  • Name of stackable FSAL NULL updated from NULLFS to NULL
  • Add utility function to load and initialize FSAL module
  • Support stacking multiple FSALs

Honors and Awards

• Nutanix Hackathon 8.0: Multiple Awards for Multicloud Service Mesh, Feb 2022
• Best of category 'Security in the Hybrid Multicloud World'
• Best of competition 'Most Creative'
• Nutanix: Superhero Award, Feb 2018
• Nutanix Hackathon: Best of Seattle Award for Synchronous Replication of VMs on Acropolis Hypervisor (with automatic failover and failback), Oct 2018
• Facebook Summer of Hack - New York City: 3rd place for the HipHop Android App, Oct 2013
• Most Rev Dr Joseph Mar Iraneous Trophy: Best student in Computer Science, 2004

Music

• Pambayaarin Ponpulinathil (Devotional Ayyappa song), Jan 2021

Contact Information

• arunov1986 [at] gmail [dot] com