Anand Periasamy is a seasoned software entrepreneur and builder with 11+ years leading production-grade distributed systems and a career spanning petascale storage, supercomputing and cloud-native infrastructure. As Co-Founder and CEO of MinIO since 2014 he drives an exascale AI object store used for high-performance data pipelines, building on earlier success co-founding Gluster, an open-source petascale file system. Based in Palo Alto, he pairs technical depth with venture and advisory roles across AI, observability, databases and networking—board member at H2O.ai and investor/advisor to companies like YugaByte, Isovalent, Starburst and Postman. His background includes designing one of the world’s fastest supercomputers and long-standing open source stewardship, reflecting a track record of shipping scalable storage and data infrastructure. Known for spotting platform-level gaps, he blends systems engineering rigor with startup acumen to help developer-focused companies scale.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Computer Science and Engineering, BE, Computer Science and Engineering at Annamalai University
A library for Spark DataFrame using MinIO Select API
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