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Vinaya Khandelwal

Member of Technical Staff at Nutanix

Bengaluru

7+ years of work experience

Nutanix
Jun 20242 yrs 5 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Support rearchitecture efforts to scale cold migration and disaster recovery for ~5000k VMs per second. Support migration of VMs relying on cross cluster storage.
Nutanix
Jun 20213 yrs 1 moJun 2024

San Jose, California, United States

Led core development on Ondemand Cross Cluster Live Migration, enabling near-zero downtime when migrating VMs across clusters under 5ms latency. Added support for live migrating VMs across clusters running on open virtual networks, while ensuring network security policies remain unaffected during migration.
Nutanix
May 20204 mosAug 2020

San Jose, California, United States

Research on scalability of Kubernetes scheduler to deploy 50K+ applications on a 500 node cluster and understand scale related design ideas. Based on the research, improved Nutanix’s on-premise scheduler memory footprint and throughput to schedule VMs at scale
Postman
Jun 20181 yr 1 moJun 2019

Greater Bengaluru Area

Product research on various message brokers like RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Kinesis streams to replace the existing backbone for communications across micro-services Built reliable, cost-effective Extract-Load data pipelines for ∼2.5B rows which reduced the estimated infrastructure costs from $1000/mo to under a $100/mo
Siemens PLM Software
May 20173 mosJul 2017

Greater Bengaluru Area

Built a prototype to perform sequential pattern search on 50TB of healthcare logs using Elasticsearch and Python with an aim to reduce query time from 2 weeks to within 24 hours
HelloDoctor
Aug 20165 mosDec 2016

Hyderabad

Worked on an android application that enables users to book appointments with nearby hospitals and makes it easy to document the entire process. Coded the functionality of the application.

Vinaya’s AI Stack

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Education

The University of Texas at Dallas

Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

The University of Texas at Dallas

20192 yrs2021

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science

IIIT Hyderabad

20144 yrs2018

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Headline

Member of Technical Staff at Nutanix

About

I’m a Backend and Cloud Engineer with 6 years of experience designing and scaling distributed systems that power large-scale, resilient platforms. My passion lies in solving complex infrastructure challenges — from live VM migrations to optimizing data pipeline for massive workloads. Currently, I work at Nutanix, where I’ve led efforts in cross-cluster live migration and VM scheduling optimization. Previously, at Postman, I engineered high-performance data pipelines that cut cloud costs, proving that great design can be both fast and efficient. I enjoy working across the stack where backend performance meets cloud scalability — whether that’s building microservice communication frameworks, improving scalability, or collaborating with teams on distributed system design. Outside of work, I’m always exploring new cloud technologies, reading distributed systems papers, or experimenting with open-source infrastructure projects. Let’s connect if you’re building systems that need to scale — or just love talking about distributed schedulers, data pipelines, and the beauty of well-architected systems.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

cursor

gemini

FLUX

Glean

Roo Code

Work experience

Member of Technical Staff 3 at Nutanix, Jun 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Support rearchitecture efforts to scale cold migration and disaster recovery for ~5000k VMs per second. Support migration of VMs relying on cross cluster storage.

Member Of Technical Staff 2 at Nutanix, Jun 2021 - Jun 2024 · 3 yrs 1 mo, San Jose, California, United States, Led core development on Ondemand Cross Cluster Live Migration, enabling near-zero downtime when migrating VMs across clusters under 5ms latency. Added support for live migrating VMs across clusters running on open virtual networks, while ensuring network security policies remain unaffected during migration.

MTS Intern at Nutanix, May 2020 - Aug 2020 · 4 mos, San Jose, California, United States, Research on scalability of Kubernetes scheduler to deploy 50K+ applications on a 500 node cluster and understand scale related design ideas. Based on the research, improved Nutanix’s on-premise scheduler memory footprint and throughput to schedule VMs at scale

Backend Software Engineer at Postman, Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo, Greater Bengaluru Area, Product research on various message brokers like RabbitMQ, Apache Kafka, Kinesis streams to replace the existing backbone for communications across micro-services Built reliable, cost-effective Extract-Load data pipelines for ∼2.5B rows which reduced the estimated infrastructure costs from $1000/mo to under a $100/mo

R&D intern at Siemens PLM Software, May 2017 - Jul 2017 · 3 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, Built a prototype to perform sequential pattern search on 50TB of healthcare logs using Elasticsearch and Python with an aim to reduce query time from 2 weeks to within 24 hours

Android App HelloDoctor at HelloDoctor, Aug 2016 - Dec 2016 · 5 mos, Hyderabad, Worked on an android application that enables users to book appointments with nearby hospitals and makes it easy to document the entire process. Coded the functionality of the application.

Education

Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, IIIT Hyderabad

Public links

github: https://github.com/mayukuse24

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