He has a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford University and his areas of interest include distributed systems, big data and security. His past experience includes companies like IBM where he worked on distributed filesystems (NFS) and replication technologies. He then joined the Data Infrastructure team in LinkedIn and worked on Voldemort - an open source distributed key-value store, as well as Apache Samza. He's currently the tech lead of Streaming Analytics platform team at Uber, building a self service platform for doing near real time analytics. He's also a Committer and PMC member in Apache Samza.