Distributed Systems
Abhijeet Gijare
Engineering Leader, Distributed Systems, Cloud Services, ML, Infrastructure
Cary,NC
Summary
Experienced engineering leader with 25+ years of progressive
experience in software development and strategic leadership.
Proficient in building and scaling cloud infrastructure to support
business growth and improve operational efficiency. Well-versed
with ML techniques and the infrastructure needs of ML workloads
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
5
5
Certificates
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Software Engineering Manager: Cloud Infra
Google
6 2023 - Current
- As Engineering Manager in Cloud Infra team of GCP, leading the capacity planning for storage, network and ML workloads.
- Developed smart solvers to allow GPU and Cloud Storage colocation with local power & network constraints
- Partnering with SREs for infra & service reliability while planning for disaster scenarios in resource demand forecasting.
- Developed infrastructure planning solutions for ML workloads, addressing customer needs for compute colocation and network.
- Built cloud capacity planning systems to maintain geo-diversity across 36 cloud regions
- Developed long term roadmap and drove the initiatives while maintaining strong focus on operations and people growth. Bootstrapped new teams to execute the vision
Software Development Manager, Tech Infra
Google
06.2020 - 06.2023
- As an Engineering Manager in Google's Tech Infra organization, led a team of engineers & managers for Fleet Deployment Optimization and launched over 60 new fleet configurations
- Delivered software for Unified Hardware Modeling for Racks and ML super-pods which simplified the fleet configuration across all the systems
- Built roadmap and bootstrapped new teams to drive towards a shared vision
- Owned delivery, operations and execution while partnering across the organization.
Sr. Engineering Manager and Site Lead
VMware Inc.
01.2019 - 06.2020
- Built and led diverse and global engineering team to build VMware Cloud as SaaS product that offers VMware's enterprise-class Software Defined Data Center software on Bare Metal instances in the AWS Cloud
- Enhanced the product to offer block storage from AWS as virtual storage in the Software Defined Data Center.
- Partnered with AWS Engineering to design, develop and scale the control plane, allowing 800+ enterprise customers in 33 global regions to extend their private cloud vSphere workloads to AWS Cloud
- Built vision, roadmap and technical strategy for the product while managing end-to-end lifecycle including operations.
Software Development Manager
Amazon
06.2015 - 01.2019
- Owned end-to-end lifecycle of AWS Commerce Platform components including SDLC for feature enhancements, region expansions and operations to maintain 99.9999% availability
- Developed and executed roadmap for web services that power Kindle subscriptions and author facing functions which are adapted by over 70000 authors and 3 million readers globally
- Built and managed team of 15 engineers and one manager
- Provided technical and process leadership to improve efficiency and quality.
Senior Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
10.2013 - 05.2015
- Built and led highly engaged global engineering teams of 2 architects, 18 engineers and 2 managers in US, Germany and India to deliver SaaS products for Online Conferencing (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
- Developed and scaled the services to allow 1000 users per conference with high quality audio, HD video and screen-sharing experience
- Co-owned product roadmap and vision with business counterpart
- Accelerated decisions and outcomes.
Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
10.2011 - 10.2013
- Managed tech team merger and restructured the organization as a part of Netviewer AG acquisition in Germany
- Delivered core services that power video sharing and recording features in online conferences (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
- Delivered AWS Kinesis based telemetry pipeline that processes 6 million events per hour at peak
- Provided technical leadership and architectural oversight while making key design decisions.
Staff Software Engineer | GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
04.2010 - 10.2011
- Owned end-to-end development and cross-team technical leadership of platform services used for Online Conferencing products (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar, GoToTraining)
- Designed, developed and scaled RESTful services using service-oriented-architecture
- Managed tech team merger as a part of Vidsoft Gmbh acquisition.
Senior Software Engineer
Citrix Systems
01.2008 - 04.2010
- Rearchitected a heavy monolithic system to adopt micro-service based architecture
- Built service-oriented middleware platform using Java/J2EE technologies and integrated with online conferencing products (GoToMeeting, GoToWebinar).
Technical Consultant
Fox Interactive Media
02.2007 - 01.2008
- Designed, developed and tested Java/J2EE based web applications.
Technical Architect
Persistent Systems
06.2005 - 02.2007
- Designed and developed software solutions using distributed systems on Java/J2EE platform.
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini
03.2002 - 05.2005
- Designed, developed and tested web applications using Java/J2EE platform.
Software Engineer
3i Infotech
01.2001 - 03.2002
- Developed Java/J2EE based applications.
Member of Technical Staff
SIEMENS
08.1999 - 12.2000
- Developed Real-Time Control Systems for industrial automation using C, PLC and SCADA systems.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication
Dr. B.A.M University
India 07.1995 - 07.1999
Software
Service Oriented Architecture, API Design
Java/J2EE Platform
ML/AI Techniques and Frameworks, Computer Vision, Neural Networks, NLP, Gen AI, Vector DBs, MultiModal RAG
Python, Tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, LangChain
Cloud Technologies
Web Frameworks, MVC
Backend/RDBMS/NoSQL DBs
Service Reliability, Operations and Scaling
DevOps (Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, Docker, Terraform, Git)
Skills
Global Team Management
Certification
ML Business Applications, PG Diploma - [UT Austin]
Work Availability
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Affiliations
- World Chess Federation
- United States Chess Federation
Timeline
Software Development Manager, Tech Infra
Google
06.2020 - 06.2023
Sr. Engineering Manager and Site Lead
VMware Inc.
01.2019 - 06.2020
Software Development Manager
Amazon
06.2015 - 01.2019
Senior Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
10.2013 - 05.2015
Engineering Manager - GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
10.2011 - 10.2013
Staff Software Engineer | GoTo Products
Citrix Systems Inc.
04.2010 - 10.2011
Senior Software Engineer
Citrix Systems
01.2008 - 04.2010
Technical Consultant
Fox Interactive Media
02.2007 - 01.2008
Technical Architect
Persistent Systems
06.2005 - 02.2007
Senior Software Engineer
Capgemini
03.2002 - 05.2005
Software Engineer
3i Infotech
01.2001 - 03.2002
Member of Technical Staff
SIEMENS
08.1999 - 12.2000
Bachelor of Science - Electronics and Communication
Dr. B.A.M University
07.1995 - 07.1999
Software Engineering Manager: Cloud Infra
Google
6 2023 - Current
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