Abhinay Nagpal
Senior Director Of Software Engineering at Nutanix
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhinay Nagpal is a seasoned software engineering leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 13 years of hands-on experience and 15+ years of industry impact driving cloud infrastructure and distributed systems at Nutanix. He currently leads the engineering organization for Nutanix Cloud Clusters and the control plane platform, enabling hybrid deployments across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud while championing platform architecture transformation and engineering productivity. A pragmatic technologist, he has improved control plane throughput and latency by 5x, cut critical defects substantially, and has a track record of building resilient telemetry, messaging, IAM, and distributed database systems. He pairs executive leadership with deep implementation chops—from contributing to Project Voldemort’s backend and Avro support to authoring high-performance middleware in Go and GraphQL—and has co-founded a data-governance focused startup. Abhinay blends servant leadership with an engineer’s instinct for operational excellence, hiring and mentoring teams that deliver reliable, scalable enterprise software.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityMasters, Computer science, Masters, Computer science at Stanford University
English, Hindi, Marathi, Punjabi
Github Skills (10)
javas10
avro10
java10
hadoop9
serialization9
data-serialization9
hdfs8
build-automation8
data-pipeline8
data-pipelines8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
voldemort/voldemort
Aug 2012 - Aug 2013
An open source clone of Amazon's Dynamo.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:107 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Abhinay contributed to the project by fixing error messages and addressing exceptions within the admin service and file fetcher. They added support for Avro record serialization by incorporating key and value fields, which may pertain to data ingestion, and also refactored reducer logic within the store building process. In addition, the user refactored partitioner, mapper and HDFS fetcher logic to improve error handling with retries.
reactnosqltransactionalamazonbig-data
abh1nay/voldemort
Jul 2012 - Aug 2013
Contributions:98 commits in 1 year 1 month
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