About

Vinayak Hegde is a highly skilled Member of Technical Staff at Avi Networks with over 13 years of relevant experience in the field of software engineering. He specializes in storage virtualization, file system and scale-out NAS solutions, distributed systems, and layer 2 (Ethernet) switching. Vinayak has extensive experience in Linux kernel module development and the Linux block Io subsystem. He is proficient in various technologies such as Linux, Open Solaris, Xen, Hyperv, ESXi, MongoDB, Redis, and Python Interface to AWS (boto). He also has experience in developing Python Interface to Openstack Services, http, Java script, angularjs, node.js, and HTML. Vinayak has written a simple blog application with register and sign-in using angularjs and node.js with rest APIs. Vinayak has worked with various organizations, including 8kpc and Cisco. At 8kpc, he worked as a Senior Staff Engineer, where he was involved in the design and development of a HyperConverged Appliance solution for VDI deployments. He worked on various protocols such as iSCSI, NFS, OpenStack Swift, and Scale-out distributed file system design. He also designed and implemented a shared memory, UDP-based communication subsystem for different component communication and implemented RDMA between nodes using ibverbs APIs. At Cisco, Vinayak worked as a Software Engineer and was involved in the development of a diagnostic platform component (GOLD) and embedded event manager (EEM) component. He analyzed the Ethernet packet with CISCO dc3 header added to it at different ASIC levels and worked on the infrastructure component to register events with actions and conditions. Vinayak holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from RVCE. He has experience in various technologies such as AWS, Redis, NodeJS, Python, Javascript, MongoDB, Kubernetes, Docker, and Hadoop. Vinayak's technical expertise and experience make him a valuable asset to any organization.