Demonstrate new Intel technology and accelerators for integration into Microsoft Data products (SQL Server and Synapse) and investigate performance opportunities and bottlenecks for data benchmarks such as TPC-E/HammerDB/TPC-DS on SQL Server and Synapse Spark. Responsibilities:Design experiments and summarize findings to present to internal stakeholders and Microsoft.Use profiling tools like EMON, perfmon, vtune, xperf to characterize data workloads encompassing application, OS, storage and network stacks. Develop automation tools and scripts to make experiments repeatable, reliable and transferable.Responsible for setup, debug and maintenance of multiple server hardware systems in lab.Key Highlights: 1. Drove adoption of Intel QAT accelerator for database backup/restore in SQL Server. Identified bugs and opportunities for performance optimization in QAT driver and SQL Server resulting in 2x+ speedup on bare metal and virtualized scenarios.2. Reduced storage cost and complexity overhead by 2x by architecting an NVME SSD based storage solution for TPC-E workload to replace SATA SSD solution at 0 performance impact3. Demonstrated optimization opportunities in SQL Server for OLTP (TPCE) database workload. 4. Enabled and optimized Hybrid Buffer Pool feature into MS SQL Server using Persistent Memory leading to 20% improvements in throughput for OLTP (TPCE) database workload.

Teaching students of EEE120: Digital Design Fundamentals

Working on System level power management techniques. Includes power and performance prediction on real platforms.

Teaching and Assisting students for EEE333: Hardware Design Languages/Programming Logic

Teaching assistant for the class Digital Systems and Circuits (EEE425).

Business Unit: Embedded/AutomotivePlatform: NVIDIA's Jetson TK1 Pro and Audi zFASExperience:-- Design, implementation, documentation and execution of test plans: - Responsible for execution and maintanence of Storage (SD/eMMC, USB, mSATA) Test Module - Executed and improved System Software, Virtualization, Graphics, Networking and Multimedia modules.-- Created EAVB test plan-- Aided and assisted efforts for automation of test cases.

-- Learn and understand how VIs work. Underwent training in DSP.-- Developing LabVIEW VIs for verification tasks.-- Designed and implemented a VI for monitoring a directory structure and updating the website based on the content present (or not present).-- Devised a UI based filter, whose parameters were set interactively, and displayed the wave characteristics accordingly.

Platform: Firebird V running on Atmega2560Experience:-- Design of Image Processing modules using SciLAB: - Detected presence of objects in frame - Estimated color, shape and size of objects - Successfuly implemented modules in a fruit picking robot-- Implemented Line Following Robot: - Used Camera as sensor - Processed the images in OpenCV running on a Linux computer.

Assistant to Mr. Vinay K.- Solved homework assignments and prepared solutions.

Assistant to Prof. Anuradha M ( Systems theory ) and Vinay K. ( Signals theory )- Prepared teaching material for the classes.- Assigned and solved homework of varying difficulty.

Assisted Prof. Anuradha M, HOD, Department of Telecommunication, PESIT.- Peer coached students of the course by taking remedial courses- Prepared solutions to assignments and homework for the entire course.