About

Vijay Karthik is a highly skilled Staff Engineer at Rubrik, Inc. with over 10 years of relevant experience in the industry. He is an expert in distributed systems and has made significant contributions to Rubrik's distributed database and filesystem. As a Member of Technical Staff at Rubrik, Vijay has led cross-component projects that have resulted in significant performance improvements. He led a team that developed a new file format for improved restore performance, reducing the time an ingested snapshot is available for restore by 61x. He also used cutting-edge tracing tools to improve the performance of the distributed filesystem, resulting in up to 7x improvement in write performance and up to 50% improvement in read performance. Additionally, he improved the performance of a snapshot download from a cloud archival location by 10x. Vijay is a founding member and technical lead of Callisto India, a team that works on Rubrik's distributed database. He has made open-source contributions to CockroachDB to increase its resilience and fault tolerance. He also designed and led a team to build a distributed monotonic clock that integrates with CockroachDB to protect it against clock skew and clock jumps. Prior to joining Rubrik, Vijay worked as a Technical Lead at InMobi, where he developed the platform for the e-commerce advertising team. He built novel algorithms for the bidding and product recommendation engines, designed and deployed an online image processing service, and integrated bidders with internal and external ad-exchanges. He also built tracing tools to analyze platform performance and increase scalability, handled major data migrations across stores and data centers, and prototyped catalogue ingestion using Spark, which increased throughput by more than 50-fold. Vijay holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is highly skilled in software engineering, mobile development, recommendation systems, image processing, and Spark. His vast experience and expertise make him a valuable asset to any organization.