About

Sampath Kumar Kilaparthi is a highly skilled software professional with a passion for scalable systems. He is currently working as a Member of Technical Staff at VMware, where he brings his extensive knowledge of operating systems, backend, and distributed systems to his role. Prior to joining VMware, Sampath worked as a Senior Engineer in DISH's Core Engineering team. He has also worked as a Graduate Research Assistant at Stony Brook University, where he worked under Professor Barbara Chapman on providing a theoretical foundation for multi-level fault management. His work at Stony Brook also involved developing and implementing a strategy in LLVM for deciding whether it is profitable to perform checkpointing and data structures to be used. At VMware, Sampath has been involved in developing an experimental Backend tool to test the health of the host's various compute, network, and storage resources used in virtual machine migration. He has expertise in C and C++, and his tech stack includes software engineering, backend development, testing, and research. Sampath holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Stony Brook University, where he graduated in 2020. He also holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT Kharagpur. With 6.44 years of relevant experience, Sampath is a highly skilled professional with a proven track record of delivering high-quality work in the field of distributed systems and operating systems.