Summary
Atul Talesara is a Principal Software Engineer with nine years of deep systems experience, currently working on the NT Cache Manager and NTFS at Microsoft in Redmond. He brings specialist knowledge in operating systems, storage and filesystems, system programming and security, having implemented a Unix-like preemptive kernel, a thread library, and a full e2fsck implementation. His background includes low-level tooling—tweaking GDB and the GNU toolchain and building GDB stubs for multi-threaded network processors—plus validating IPS/L2 security features in industrial products. A CMU-trained engineer who contributed to parallel filesystem research and built a prize-winning multimedia EXT2 project, he blends research-grade design with production Windows storage engineering. Comfortable across Unix and Windows internals, he’s known for solving concurrency, virtual memory and filesystem consistency problems that most engineers never touch. Notably, he pairs kernel- and toolchain-level fluency with practical product validation experience, making him effective at both building and hardening core storage infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Science at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
MS, Computer Engineering, MS, Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University