About

Rohit Ghivdonde is a highly skilled Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft Azure with over 4 years of relevant experience in the industry. He has a strong background in computer science, having earned his Bachelor's degree from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. Prior to joining Microsoft, Rohit worked as a Member of Technical Staff at Nutanix, where he contributed significantly to the development of the Nutanix Distributed File System (NDFS). As a member of the Stargate team, he developed an adaptive compression technique for the NDFS cache, which improved the read performance by 2.5x. He also added support for tiered caching, which facilitated PMEM support and improved read performance by at least 3.5x. In addition, Rohit was a member of the Medusa-Cassandra team at Nutanix, where he developed algorithms to prevent and eliminate external fragmentation in the TCMalloc allocator, saving multiple GBs of memory in the system. He also worked on various improvements to help scale the NDFS cache. Rohit's technical expertise includes software engineering, Azure, research science, Cassandra, Clojure, big data, and search. He is an accomplished researcher, having completed research internships at Samsung R&D and HBCSE. Rohit's education and experience have equipped him with the skills needed to excel in his current role as a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft Azure. He is a dedicated professional who is passionate about using his technical expertise to solve complex problems and create innovative solutions.