Senior Backend Engineer · Distributed Systems

Backend engineer specializing in high-scale, fault-tolerant systems.

13+ years of experience building distributed services and APIs — including platforms handling 1.9M+ requests annually across 42K+ clusters. Currently Senior Member of Technical Staff at Nutanix, Pune.

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13+ yrs in production systems

1.9M+ requests / yr

42K+ clusters monitored

8TB ingested / day

Distributed Systems

Remote Diagnostics

Insights & Monitoring

Disaster Recovery

Data Platform

C++

RPC / API

AWS

Kubernetes

Pune, India · SMTS @ Nutanix

About

Backend engineering at production scale.

I'm a senior backend engineer with 13+ years designing and scaling backend services and APIs, including large distributed systems processing millions of requests annually. At Nutanix, I own the backend architecture for Remote Diagnostics and Logbay end-to-end — services handling 1.9M+ requests/year across 100K+ support cases and 42K+ clusters — and led the redesign of core service communication from SSH to a secure RPC/API-based architecture.

My background also includes backend data pipeline engineering — 8TB/day ingestion and 200+ ETL job migrations at 100% validation accuracy — and building internal developer tooling that removes manual work for the teams around me. I'm AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner and the 2026 Nutanix Hackathon winner.

I like problems where reliability, scale, and security intersect — the kind where the right architecture decision saves an on-call engineer's weekend.

service_status.log Operational

EXPERIENCE13+ years

CURRENT ROLESenior Member of Technical Staff

COMPANYNutanix

FOCUSDistributed Systems, Go, AWS

LOCATIONPune, India

CERTIFICATIONAWS Cloud Practitioner

Impact

Numbers from production, not a resume template.

The systems I've built and owned, measured the way an on-call engineer would measure them.

1.9M+

Requests / year

Backend service layer for Remote Diagnostics, spanning 100K+ support cases and 42K+ clusters across multi-region deployment.

SSH → RPC

Security migration

Led the redesign of core diagnostics and health-check communication to a secure RPC/API architecture, closing a major compliance gap.

5×

Logbay masking throughput

Built a distributed log-collection service with automated PII masking, reducing on-call incident volume.

8TB/day

Pipeline, 100% accuracy

Architected AWS EMR ingestion and led migration of 200+ ETL jobs with full column- and row-level validation.

Experience

13 years, four companies, one throughline.

From hypervisor-level backup engines to distributed diagnostics platforms handling millions of requests.

Senior Member of Technical Staff Nutanix Aug 2022 — Present

Architected and own the backend service layer for Remote Diagnostics — 1.9M+ requests/year across 100K+ support cases and 42K+ clusters, multi-region.
Designed automated issue-signature detection and KB remediation-matching logic, cutting MTTR.
Redesigned core service communication from SSH to secure RPC/API architecture, closing a security-compliance gap.
Built Logbay, a distributed log-collection service with automated PII masking — 5x masking throughput, fewer on-call incidents.
Led cross-team backend initiatives and roadmap prioritization with SREs and PMs; mentored junior engineers.

Member of Technical Staff Nutanix May 2018 — Aug 2022

Contributed to foundational development of the Remote Diagnostics backend with support, SRE, and product teams.
Core contributor to the AWS-based data pipeline for Nutanix Insights — 8TB/day ingestion at >99.99% uptime.
Led migration of 200+ ETL/batch jobs to an AWS EMR-based backend, with 100% validation accuracy across GBs of data.
Enhanced Extract product capabilities for Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV migrations.

Software Engineer Veritas Technologies LLC Aug 2017 — Apr 2018

Implemented Hyper-V VM backup and sandbox provisioning in CDP using the VSS API (C++).
Contributed to VMware VM backup and sandbox provisioning for the Copy Data Platform.

Software Engineer Sureline Systems, Inc. Jul 2013 — Jul 2017

Built VMware change-block-tracking backup/recovery workflows using vSphere APIs (Java, C++) for the SUREedge appliance.
Built cloud migration workflows for AWS, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud.
Developed a licensing server and license-generation backend in C++/C# using X.509 certificates.
Integrated ConnectWise for automated ticket creation; contributed to bug fixes and production support.

Featured Systems

What I've architected and owned.

Not side projects — production systems, in use today, at scale.

Remote Diagnostics

GoDistributed SystemsMulti-region

Problem: Support teams needed fast, reliable diagnostics across tens of thousands of clusters, without ad hoc, manual investigation.
Approach: Architected and own the backend service layer end-to-end, including automated issue-signature detection and KB remediation matching for faster self-service resolution.
Result: 1.9M+ requests/year across 100K+ support cases and 42K+ clusters, deployed multi-region, with measurably lower MTTR.

Logbay

Log CollectionPII MaskingSFTP/FTP

Problem: Log collection at scale needed to be reliable and fast, while keeping customer data safe.
Approach: Built a distributed backend service for log collection and remote command execution, supporting local disk, FTP, and SFTP delivery with automated PII masking.
Result: 5x improvement in masking throughput and reduced on-call incident volume.

SSH → RPC/API Migration

SecurityRPC/API DesignReliability

Problem: Core diagnostics and health-check services communicated over SSH — a standing security-compliance gap.
Approach: Led the redesign of core service communication to a secure, structured RPC/API-based architecture.
Result: Closed a major compliance gap and improved service reliability across the platform.

Nutanix Insights Data Pipeline

AWS EMRETLData Validation

Problem: Cluster telemetry needed to be ingested and validated reliably, at high volume, without data loss.
Approach: Core contributor to the AWS-based ingestion pipeline; led migration of 200+ ETL/batch jobs to an AWS EMR-based backend with column- and row-level validation.
Result: 8TB/day ingestion at >99.99% uptime, with 100% validation accuracy across GBs of data.

Developer Productivity Tooling

AI-assistedJenkinsMCP

Problem: Manual triage and repeated Q&A were quietly eating the team's time.
Approach: Built Jenkins-based Jira automation, AI-assisted diagnostic summarization, a Gerrit MCP server, and Slack/Glean integrations.
Result: Reduced manual triage and redundant Q&A across the team.

Backend engineer specializing in high-scale, fault-tolerant systems.

Backend engineering at production scale.

Numbers from production, not a resume template.

13 years, four companies, one throughline.

What I've architected and owned.

Tools I reach for.

Languages & Backend

Data & Scale

Cloud & Infra

Practices

Certifications

Education

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