Ashwin Nair
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Nair is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with eight years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed storage and cloud systems. At NVIDIA he architects and scales object storage infrastructure to multi-petabyte and exabyte-class deployments, integrating Kubernetes interfaces and automating end-to-end provisioning and monitoring. His background at Joyent and contributions to OpenStack Swift show deep hands-on expertise in object storage robustness, metadata validation, and fault-tolerant replication—work that directly improves reliability in production clouds. He pairs a strong academic foundation in algorithms and ML with practical systems engineering, having implemented high-performance SDKs, storage services, and performance modeling across diverse stacks. Known for digging into tricky corruption and auditing paths, he brings both low-level rigor and an eye for operational simplicity. Motivated to join mission-aligned teams, he combines research-informed approaches with production-grade delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Mathematics and Computer Science, A+, High School, Mathematics and Computer Science, A+ at The Aditya Birla Public SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 4.00/4.00 GPA (WES), Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, 4.00/4.00 GPA (WES) at University of AllahabadMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.43/4.0 (GPA), Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.43/4.0 (GPA) at University of Florida
English, Hindi, Malayalam
Github Skills (11)
storage10
error-handling10
filesystem10
object-storage10
python10
openstack-swift10
amazon-api9
api9
unit-testing8
testing8
unit-test8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/swift
May 2022 - Nov 2022
OpenStack Storage (Swift). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin primarily focused on enhancing the robustness and functionality of the OpenStack Swift storage system, specifically concerning the object replicator and auditor. Contributions include improving error handling for ENODATA corruption scenarios in the replicator and auditor, ensuring progress continues despite data inconsistencies. Furthermore, the user implemented metadata validation within the ECDiskfile class and integrated it into the auditor and reconstructor processes, enhancing data integrity checks. Additionally, the user addressed a storage policy issue and implemented S3API errors for unsupported headers.
opendevswiftopenstackstoragemacos
nairashwin952013/radxproj
Feb 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:3 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 7 months
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