Work Experience
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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.
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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
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