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# Aniraj Kesavan on Tal

## Headline

Lead Software Engineer @ Salesforce \| Distributed Systems Expert

## About

Experience developing and operating large scale distributed systems\. Experience working on planet scale infrastructure at \* World's largest cloud CRM \(Salesforce\) \* World's largest professional social network \(Linkedin\) Interests: Distributed Systems, Observability, Datacenter Storage, Key/Value Stores, Databases, Infiniband/RDMA, Infrastructure Development and Algorithms\.

## Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

## AI stack

claude code

cursor

## Work experience

Lead Member of Technical Staff at Salesforce, Apr 2024 \- Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Lead Software Engineer at Salesforce, Apr 2022 \- Apr 2024 · 2 yrs 1 mo, San Francisco Bay Area, Working on Argus as part of the Observability platform at Salesforce\.

Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn, Jun 2017 \- Apr 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Sunnyvale, California, Working on a massively distributed time\-series database developed in house as the next generation metrics storage platform at LinkedIn\. One of the lead developers of the metadata layer driving research and development of newer solutions\. Golang, Databases \(from postgres to vitess, compressed bitmaps and everything in between\) In previous lives, developed an aggregation server for fleetwide monitoring serving millions of QPS for a health check agent\. Was also part of the team that developed a synthetic third party monitoring solution at Linkedin owning the storage solution aspect of the product\. Golang,Python,Vitess,Postgres,MySQL\.

Graduate Research Assistant at University of Utah \- Employment, Sep 2016 \- May 2017 · 9 mos, Greater Salt Lake City Area, Working with Utah Scalable Computer Systems Lab\. Researching how design decisions for in\-memory databases influence their performane on modern network hardware\. Advised by Prof\. Ryan Stutsman

Site Reliability Engineering Intern at LinkedIn, May 2016 \- Aug 2016 · 4 mos, San Francisco Bay Area, Interned with the monitoring infrastructure team\. Developed an out of band monitoring solution in python and some state driven automation based on SaltStack\.

Graduate Research Assistant at University of Utah \- Employment, Aug 2015 \- May 2016 · 10 mos, Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area, Developed strategies to optimise memory layouts and data copy to leverage zero copy paradigm present in Infiniband hardware\. Worked on public research test beds such as the APT cluster in Cloudlab developing profiles for RAMCloud, HERD etc using modern networking hardware\.

R&D Engineer at DreamWorks Animation, Jan 2014 \- Jun 2015 · 1 y 5 mo, Bangalore

Associate Software Engineer at Zynga, May 2012 \- Nov 2013 · 1 y 6 mo, Bengaluru

## Education

Master of Science \(M\.S\.\), Computer Science, University of Utah

B\.Tech, Computer Science and Engineering, Govt\. Model Engineering College, Cochin

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