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Greater Seattle Area

Building the next-generation features for THE industry standard VDI solution.

Greater Seattle Area

Senior member of the Engineering team for the Nutanix Frame cloud-first VDI product – providing architectural oversight, developing new features, working with Sales and Support staff in ensuring customer success- Rearchitected the Frame streaming protocol based on WebRTC/UDP, increasing streaming performance by reducing latency, improving audio/video sync, and vastly simplifying the network configuration necessary to set up a VDI session. It also simplified the development of new features like webcam and mic redirection from the user’s endpoint to applications (like Teams and Zoom) running on the virtual desktop.- Conceptualized and implemented a solution to stream SteamVR-based desktop VR applications (like Flight Simulator VR) from a remote virtual desktop to the Oculus VR device browser (with WebXR remoting), enabling a new use case for the product.- Built a multi-user version of the product based on Windows Remote Desktop Services by integrating components from the Chromotif product, thus enabling a new use case.

Greater Seattle Area

https://www.nutanix.com/blog/nutanix-welcomes-founders-chromotif.htmlChromotif Nebula - a cloud first VDI platform that enables enterprises to deliver Windows/Linux desktop applications easily and instantly to any device using public (Azure, GCP, AWS) or private cloud infrastructure, going from landing on the site to delivering a desktop application in under 30 minutes. The company was acquired by Nutanix.As the CTO/Architect, I was responsible for the technical vision and architecture of the product- led an India based off-shore engineering team- Architected the product, from the backend desktop provisioning control plane, user flows and desktop streaming- designed and developed some of the key multi-user Windows Remote Desktop Services integrations

Bellevue

I worked on the initial version of the Okta Contextual Access Management product, building the ‘Zero Trust’ device platform (https://bit.ly/2ER8Hd2) for Windows and macOS; allowing IT admins to secure their applications/data by restricting access to ‘trusted’ devicesI also worked on the Okta Mobility Management suite for endpoint devices, extending Okta MDM support to Windows 10 and iOS devices.

Citrix Labs, Redmond

As a Senior Manager/Principal Engineer at Citrix Labs, my responsibilities included - leading a team in applied product research and rapid prototyping of product ideas across various emerging technology landscapes- engaging with partners like Microsoft and Standards bodies (DMTF)Following are a few projects I worked on as part of Citrix Labs:- an education focused vertical solution, code-named 'Project Minerva'​ researching possible solutions to common classroom technology problems.- Meeting room and building automation using the Citrix Octoblu IoT platform (http://octoblu.com). - An HTML5/WebGL based version of the highly acclaimed Citrix Talkboard iOS app - a collaborative whiteboarding app, opening up the app to reach a wider (non-iOS) audience using nothing but a browser.- Developed and released a Windows Phone 8 and Windows 8 version of Citrix GotoMeeting, helping the premier conferencing solution reach a new wave of customers.- Developed a Microsoft System Center VMM 2012 ‘Integration pack’ for Citrix Xenserver, allowing the hypervisor to be managed by SCVMM, based on the DMTF Virtualization profile standards. Participated in the DMTF virtualization standards working group on behalf of Citrix as part of this effort.- A working prototype for the creation and lifecycle management (asset management, reporting etc.) of Citrix XenDesktop virtual desktops and their associated master images, using the Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager toolset.As part of the Citrix's M&A team, I also regularly performed technical due diligence activities for Citrix's acquisitions.

Xenapp Product Group, Fort Lauderdale

I was the Principal engineer/Dev lead on the XenApp product group, primarily responsible for the flagship Citrix XenApp multi-user application virtualization platform. - I led the development and release of the first 64-bit version of XenApp for Windows 2003 x64 (https://bit.ly/2JjCNtn), - allowed enterprise IT departments to scale-up their XenApp application server deployments and serve up to 50% more users using the same hardware investments.Prior to that, I led the development of multiple versions of the Citrix MetaFrame Conferencing Manager product, which won the "Best of Collaboration"​ award at TechEd 2003 (http://bit.ly/1fZ6YxX)I also spent many releases of XenApp, performing scalability analysis and performance tuning the ICA and IMA protocols helping the management infrastructure (IMA) scale from being able to support up to 50 servers in a single farm to over 500 servers, and supporting over a million user (ICA) connections.Early on in my Citrix career, recruited as a Software Engineer out of graduate school, I worked with customers providing developer support for the Citrix WinFrame and MetaFrame products.- A typical day included remote debugging their issues- analyzing windows memory dumps and developing hotfixes.

College Of Computing

As a research assistant, I worked on SUIF (Stanford University Intermediate Format) 'C'​ compiler optimizations to parallelize scientific applications and target the Georgia Tech 'Beehive'​ distributed shared memory system.

I was a member of the engineering team that delivered one of the industry's first multimedia CD mastering products, CD-Gen, in India.

Ms, Electrical And Computer Engineering

Be, Electronics And Communication Engineering