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title: "Arindaam Mandal - Senior Engineer in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Arindaam Mandal, Software Engineer II @ Commvault | Backend Systems Engineering | Database Resilience based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude, gemini, and langchain."
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# Arindaam Mandal on Tal

## Headline

Software Engineer II @ Commvault \| Backend Systems Engineering \| Database Resilience

## About

Software Engineer with 4\.5\+ years of experience in backend low\-level systems engineering\. I architect mission\-critical features for the Database team at Commvault serving large scale enterprise data protection for our 10,000\+ global customers across full product lifecycles \- from system design to core\-implementation\. Deep technical focus on database internals, distributed databases/systems resilience\. Actively exploring modern system design patterns, distributed consensus, and the evolving Agentic AI stack\. Core Skillset: Languages \- Python, C/C\+\+/C\# Databases \- SQL Databases \[Oracle, PostGres, MySQL\], MongoDB, Redis, GCP BigTable & Firestore, Cassandra\. Cloud \- AWS, GCP, Azure DevOps \- Git, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes Additional Skills: Javascript, React, Express, Django, Flask, Go Programming

## Location

Bengaluru

## AI stack

claude

gemini

langchain

ollama

openclaw

## Work experience

Senior Engineer at Commvault, Dec 2024 \- Present · 1 yr 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Primary owner for Oracle database backup and recovery modules\. My work involves enhancing the product with new features as per customer requirements, maintaining and refactoring legacy modules, triaging and patching bugs, improving sql performance\. Key Projects: 1\. Behavioral Anomaly detection for databases \- End to end ownership for anomaly detection in databases like GCP BigQuery, PostGreSQL, MySQL using algorithmic analysis of time series data\. 2\. Distributed GCP Firestore workload \- Architected a scalable and distributed design to backup and restore GCP firestore databases\. \- This includes dump based full backups and detecting changes on documents in a collection to perform incremental backups\. \- Reliable recovery of the backups in disaster scenarios and scalable design to ensure optimal performance for databases with size in TBs\. 3\. Snapshot v2 An incremental improvement of Block level Snap Backup design for cloud native Oracle databases to optimize storage costs for customers\.

Software Engineer at Commvault, Jul 2022 \- Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 4\. Enhanced Deduplication for TDE encrypted databases \- Performed structured deep dive on block level packet structure of oracle generated backup\-pieces for TDE encrypted databases\. \- Redesign of block level realignment design to improve deduplication which was critical in improving performance of backups and reducing storage costs by \~40% 5\. Incremental SQL Schema enhancements \- Worked on improving the schema design for the SQL server tables to reduce bloating and improve performance of the SQL server by \~15% \- Rewrote queries to optimize performance by understanding database internals reducing query execution time by 50 minutes 6\. Triaging framework for Oracle issues \- Architected an escalation triaging framework that performs initial triaging steps for known issues and provides the initial analysis of the issue and reducing engineering time spent by \~80% \- Currently working on enhancements to integrate this framework prior to the issue being notices providing early detection 7\. Contributed to key product enhancements for Oracle databases on local disk and storage arrays \- Replication using Dataguard \- PDB Clone \- Table level restores 8\. Critical Customer Issues and POCs Resolved 50\+ customer tickets and assisted multiple customer POCs clearing roadblocks on live\-sessions\. \- Exposure to enterprise scale database management, performance issues and critical problem solving ability to mitigate customer concerns

SDE Intern at Commvault, Nov 2021 \- Jun 2022 · 7 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area

Student Intern at Nestlé, Aug 2021 \- Oct 2021 · 3 mos, India

NSF I\-Corps at CoMotion at University of Washington, Jun 2021 \- Jul 2021 · 2 mos, Working on increasing visibility in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain in\-order make healthcare accessible to everyone\. Reciepient of the I\-Corps grant for further research and work in this domain

Summer Research Intern at Center for Cloud Computing and Big Data, PES University, May 2020 \- Jul 2020 · 3 mos, Bengaluru South, Karnataka, India, Designing and implementing a scalable distributed Job Scheduler that allocates cloud resources in an efficient manner\. Assisted a PhD scholar on developing a paper on the same\.

## Education

Bachelor of Technology \- BTech \(CyberSecurity specialisation\), Computer Science, PES University

Jnanodaya Pre University College

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