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AJAY SHEKAR

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Founding Engineer

Observo AI
02.2023 - Current
  • Architected and built a highly scalable observability data pipeline from inception, enabling real-time processing and analysis of massive telemetry datasets while maintaining low-latency performance across distributed systems
  • Led end-to-end service architecture and development as founding engineer, designing multiple microservices from the ground up to establish core platform infrastructure and scalable system foundations
  • Drove early-stage technical decisions and platform strategy, establishing architectural patterns, technology stack selections, and engineering best practices that enabled rapid product development and team scaling
  • Delivered foundational data processing capabilities, creating robust pipeline infrastructure that handles high-volume observability data ingestion, transformation, and routing with enterprise-grade reliability

Senior Software Engineer

Rubrik
02.2021 - 01.2022
  • Designed and maintained a distributed job scheduling framework that orchestrates execution of critical cluster operations across Rubrik's data management platform, ensuring reliable task coordination and resource optimization
  • Resolved customer-reported defects and production issues through systematic debugging, root cause analysis, and code fixes, improving system stability and customer satisfaction
  • Collaborated on system architecture and code quality initiatives by conducting thorough code reviews and participating in design reviews to ensure scalable, maintainable solutions
  • Contributed to platform reliability and performance by proactively identifying, troubleshooting, and resolving bugs throughout the codebase while maintaining high coding standards

Member of Technical Staff

VMWARE INC.
06.2018 - 02.2021
  • Contributed to the development of a VMware Secure State - a product that monitors cloud environments for configuration related security threats.
  • Developed multiple features in a microservice-driven backend data pipeline. Some highlights - a microservice to transform an API response to a graph model, a generalized rate-limiting framework to restrict the number of events processed, a graph-based data cleanup feature to ensure an accurate experience for our customers.
  • Experience working with cloud services in AWS such as SQS, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Neptune, ElasticSearch and Elasticache.
  • Collaborated with customers in order to understand use cases and prioritize feature development - assisted onboarding the first ~1200 Azure cloud accounts on the platform.
  • Served as team lead - organized, communicated, and coordinated milestone objectives and on a more granular level, sprint goals with product team for several sprints.
  • Played an active role on the team through the product life cycle from pre-alpha to public release.

Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
01.2017 - 05.2018
  • Assist students in building robust applications involving concepts such as MVC, version control, mobile development and API design.

Research Intern

NETRADYNE
05.2017 - 08.2017
  • Developed an Active Learning framework for continuous training of an object detection model.
  • Trained a binary classifier capable of identifying a scheme of images (for example, potential false negatives). This allowed a more focused approach towards labelling new data.
  • Developed visualizations in order to understand how to improve our object detection model.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Urbana Champaign
Champaign, IL
05.2018

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Urbana Champaign
Champaign, IL
05-2017

Skills

  • LANGUAGES: Golang, Scala , Python, C, C, Java
  • TECHNOLOGIES: Cloud Infrastructure, Graph Databases, Microservice Architecture, Operating Systems, Distributed Systems, Kubernetes
  • HOBBIES: Hiking, Basketball, Tennis, Cooking

Timeline

Founding Engineer

Observo AI
02.2023 - Current

Senior Software Engineer

Rubrik
02.2021 - 01.2022

Member of Technical Staff

VMWARE INC.
06.2018 - 02.2021

Research Intern

NETRADYNE
05.2017 - 08.2017

Teaching Assistant

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
01.2017 - 05.2018

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Urbana Champaign

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

University of Illinois At Urbana Champaign

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