Headline

Building Intelligent Platforms for AI, Data, Cloud, Storage & Security

About

A senior engineering professional with 20+ years of experience across Storage, Cloud Infrastructure, Networking, Security, Big Data, SaaS, Data Platforms and AI. My career has evolved from building and automating enterprise storage and distributed infrastructure, to working on cloud and hybrid-cloud platforms, networking and security, and then into big-data, SaaS and modern data platforms. Over the years, I have built expertise across performance engineering, benchmarking, automation, platform engineering, distributed systems, data engineering and observability, working with systems ranging from enterprise infrastructure to TB–PB scale data platforms. Today, I’m focused on AI-first Platform Engineering and Performance Architecture—bringing together AI, data, automation, cloud-native technologies and systems performance to build scalable, reliable and high-performing engineering platforms. My core strength is connecting deep technology expertise across domains with systems-level thinking: understanding the underlying infrastructure, identifying performance and scalability bottlenecks, designing automation and platforms, and using AI to transform how engineering teams build and operate complex systems. Domains: Storage | Cloud | Networking | Security | Big Data | SaaS | Data Platforms | AI Core strengths: Architecture | Performance Engineering | Platform Engineering | Automation | Distributed Systems | Data Engineering | AI Engineering | Technical Leadership

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

aistudio

antigravity

cursor

geminicli

langchain

langgraph

Work experience

Senior Staff Engineer at Lyric, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Bengaluru

Senior Staff Engineer at Hevo Data, Jun 2024 - May 2025 · 1 yr, Bengaluru, • Led the end-to-end quality assurance for Hevo 1.0, ensuring seamless integration with various DB/SaaS sources. • Spearheaded automation strategies that improved testing efficiency by 30%, significantly reducing time-to-market. • Optimized DevOps processes, enhancing deployment frequency and reliability, while managing critical certifications.

Staff Engineer at Acceldata, Sep 2023 - May 2024 · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Architected and implemented an automation framework to rigorously test the performance of Pulse on-prem under significant simulated cluster workloads and live monitoring system. This initiative successfully identified critical system bottlenecks and established key performance benchmarks. Tech stack: Python, JMeter, Google Protobuf, NATS, Prometheus, Grafana, MongoDB, dockers, concurrency.

Staff Engineer at Cohesity, Jun 2021 - Jul 2023 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Spearheaded quality and automation efforts as the team lead (5 engineers), owning the initial quality gate for Next Gen Cohesity's data management platform. This validated the quality of our Kubernetes-based app management and platform engineering initiatives on cohesity, HP, UCS, Dell platforms along with CI/CD effort. Tech stack: Golang, VanillaGinkgo automation framework, Kubernetes, Jenkins, VMware

Senior Software Engineer at Virsec Systems, Dec 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Product: Virsec Security Platform Application/Web/Memory/Host Security, Automation Framework development, Python, Jenkins, Dockers, Kubernetes, Rest API, Performance Testing, JMeter, OWASP Top-10 vulnerabilities

Education

BE, Computer Science, Visvesvaraya Technological University

Advanced Certificate Program, Software Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science

Public links

medium: https://medium.com/@mallikarjuna-biradar