Headline

Infrastructure Engineer Lead | Building Kubernetes Data Services & Disaster Recovery at Scale | Distributed Systems · Storage · Replication · S3 | Cloud-Native · Hybrid · Multi-Cloud | 2× US Patents · 2 IEEE Publications

About

I've spent the last 6 years making sure that when a data center dies, everything running on top of it doesn't. At Nutanix, I was the founding engineer on our Kubernetes data services product (NDK) — I was there when it was a whiteboard idea, and I stayed through GA and beyond. Most of my work is around disaster recovery and replication. Snapshot/restore, near-synchronous replication, failover — basically the stuff that makes sure businesses don't lose data when things go wrong. I lead a team of 6 building that right now. Before that, I built the control plane for Nutanix Objects, our S3-compatible object store. My favorite piece there was designing a federation system that gave 128 object stores across different regions a single global namespace, with Raft keeping it all consistent. That was a fun problem. I work mostly in Go and Kubernetes. Deep in distributed systems — not the buzzword kind, the "I've debugged a split-brain at 2am" kind. I've picked up 2 US patents and 2 IEEE publications along the way. Did my BTech from IIIT Allahabad. I care about building systems that actually work under pressure, not just in demos. Go · Kubernetes · Distributed Systems · Replication · Disaster Recovery · S3/Object Storage · CSI · gRPC · etcd · Helm · Terraform · Docker · Cluster API

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

deepseek

gemini

hermes agent

openclaw

Work experience

Member Of Technical Staff at Nutanix, Aug 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Founding engineer, Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK) — built the product from inception to GA. Lead snapshot/restore and near-synchronous replication for business-critical K8s applications. Architected K8s operators for DR, governance & app-consistent data protection across OpenShift & CAPI clusters - Designed near-sync replication controller — sub-15min RPO, zero data loss planned failover - Built Objects Federation: global namespace across 128 S3 stores with Raft-based fault tolerance - Led India control plane for Objects (S3) — deployment orchestration, IAM, TLS, API design - Architected cluster-less integration test framework — 95% faster testing, 95% lower infra cost - 2 granted US patents in cloud-native infrastructure - Tech: Go, Kubernetes, CSI, gRPC, etcd, Helm, Terraform, OpenAPI

Intern Member Of Technical Staff at Nutanix, Jan 2020 - Jul 2020 · 7 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Software Intern at Walmart Labs India, May 2019 - Jul 2019 · 3 mos, Bangaluru, Built Unified ETL pipeline in GDAP team using Apache Beam, Kafka, Java, Hadoop, MariaDB

Education

Bachelor of Technology, Indian Institute Of Information Technology allahabad

Public links

github: https://github.com/subtleseeker