Aniraj Kesavan

Lead Member of Technical Staff

• Working within the Argus team that powers alerting and monitoring at Salesforce.

Senior Software Engineer

• Part of the core team that built a massively distributed time series storage solution for storing operational metrics that ingests 10s of millions of data points every second.
• Developed the indexing layer that does fast lookups of billions of unique metrics (10s of billions of strings).
• Rewrote a monitoring server that speaks TCP and handles health check connections from hundreds of thousands of machines while generating event streams.
• Developed features for a real-time external monitoring system while making it scale to multiple data centers.

Graduate Research Assistant

• Defended thesis on February 23rd, 2017. Research focused on data center storage and Distributed Systems, specifically how modern NICs impact performance of scalable In-Memory Stores.
• Worked on building storage systems that leverage newer network fabrics and technologies such as Infiniband/RDMA.
• Research Assistant under Prof. Ryan Stutsman with the Utah Scalable Computer Systems group.
• Previously Research Assistant in the Flux Research Group under Prof. Robert Ricci.

Software Engineering Intern

• Worked for the Monitoring Infrastructure team developing auto remediation solutions.
• Developed an out-of-band monitoring solution in Python and state-driven automation using SaltStack.

R&D Engineer

• Worked on render farm and studio infrastructure systems.

Storage Research Engineer

• Worked in the ZCloud Storage Research team on zBase, a high-performance elastic distributed key-value store.