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Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

I managed a team at Google, building diagnostics and health management systems for datacenter and ML infrastructure. My focus was on ensuring highly-available and cost-efficient AI/ML clusters for large-scale models like Gemini.

Hangzhou, Cn

I manage a team building Alibaba's control & management platform for open datacenter-interconnect (DCI) infrastructure. It is a highly-available, distributed system that manages Alibaba's global datacenter connectivity, and provides key features such as resource modeling, real-time monitoring and configuration, inventory management, streaming event processing, business intelligence.Session chair for large-scale infrastructure DevOps at QCon (International software engineering conference)

Redmond, Washington, Us

My work and role remained the same as in LinkedIn, which was acquired by Microsoft in June 2016.

Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

- A member of LinkedIn's data infrastructure team. Working on Ambry - LinkedIn's geographically distributed, highly available and scalable object store serving 500+ million users and billions of objects. Ambry is the source-of-truth store for media and other immutable content at LinkedIn.- Led design and development of key components such as client streaming, end-to-end containerization, etc. - Invited speaker at QCon(International Software Engineering Conference) for Ambry.-

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Tech lead, core team member, and key contributor to several projects.1. Performance monitoring for cloud-based network function chaining; - Designed a monitoring as a service (MaaS) architecture for service function chaining; - Architected a virtual probe for dynamic service profiling; - Developed ONF AppFest PoC (best award); - Developed a highly-scalable system for monitoring rule consolidation.2. High-performance cloud and networking - Designed a framework for workload prediction and optimization using machine learning; - Designed a load balancing strategy for multi-stage distributed cloud for latency minimization; - Extended an open-source cloud simulator for streaming traffic analytics; - Built an OpenStack testbed for virtualized service chaining.3. Scalable data centers for service-chaining provisioning - Designed a highly-scalable service chaining architecture using wavelength switching; - Designed and implemented an optimization scheme to reduce service chain provisioning cost; - Designed and implemented an algorithm for service placement optimizing inter-pod communications; - Presented at Open Networking Summit'14, ACM SIGCOMM HOTSDN'14, etc.4. External Communication committee member at the Ericsson Research level. - The only representative from IP & Transport; - Defined and executed strategies for Ericsson Research external communications; - Ericsson Research blog contributor.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Tech lead for the following projects.1. Software-defined networking (SDN) - Designed OpenFlow extension to support elastic optical networking; - Designed and implemented key optimization algorithms for SDN control plane;2. Converged mobile/fixed metro network - Developed optimization algorithms for high availability of converged metro networks; - Key contributor to the design of GUI-based PoC;3. University collaborations. - Supervised 3 intern students.

Worked on metro converged networks. Main contributions include: 1. Designed and implemented algorithms for access network virtualization; 2. Developed a java-based simulation platform for performance evaluation.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science

Master Of Science (M.S.), Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering