balaji cherukuri

technician lead

About

Experienced Tech Lead with a demonstrated history of working in the Maps, distributed systems/scalability technologies. Skilled in Linux, Algorithms, Design Patterns, Python (Programming Language), and Agile Methodologies.

Country

united states

City

san francisco

Industry

computer software

Skill

c++, linux, c, netapp, operating systems, virtualization, unix, file systems, software development, storage, algorithms, data structures, debugging, distributed systems, shell scripting, agile methodologies, java, cloud computing, design patterns, software engineering, programming, python

Experience

technician lead @ data

uber

technician lead

uber

2016-8 - Present · 10 yrs 2 mos

* Working as a Tech Lead in Autonomous Vehicle Maps(AVMaps) Organization * s sub-team of size five. Lead efforts to improve the availability of Map Storage Services from 90% to 99.9%. * Architected Map Storage solution which can provide 99.9% availability without losing latency SLAs. * Lead execution of migration of Map Storage Systems to new Architecture. * Interacted with various teams across the organization like Perception, Infrastructure, Simulation, Motion Planning, Web Apps etc to collect requirements, architecture reviews, and also to resolve issues with migration. * Lead development of Map and Map Features versioning in Copy-on-write(COW) fashion, this is a centric piece to map generation workflow. * Lead immutable read-heavy(>300K ops/sec) read-only maps cache which helps to provide low latency high throughput map access.

software engineer

aricent

2006-9 - 2008-9 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Worked on Real Time Billing System, involved in new feature implementations, porting from sco unix to linux and bug fixes.

member of technical staff

netapp

2008-9 - 2016-8 · 8 yrs

* Lead efforts to simplify migration of older (7-Mode) DataONTAP to modern horizontally scalable DataONTAP. * Conducted various User Experience / Usability studies of the migration process, which helped to improvise the overall workflow. * Lead efforts to make code coverage as a part of the Continuous Integration build process. Which helped to improve the overall quality of code submissions and test coverage. * Contributed to DataONTAP virtualization, which is one of the key offerings NetApp DataONTAP. * Refactored cluster set up so that it is easier to introduce new modules.