Dev Purandare
Software Engineer II (Azure Storage) at Microsoft
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDev Purandare is a software engineer specializing in storage systems, SSDs, and data management with 11 years of experience and a PhD in Computer Science from UC Santa Cruz. Currently at Microsoft working on Azure Storage, he focuses on next-generation object storage across CPUs and DPUs, building garbage collection, recovery modes, over-provisioning logic, and cross-platform observability tooling. He blends research rigor with production engineering to improve host-device coordination for performance and reliability in large-scale storage services. Comfortable across POSIX and Windows environments, he also designs black-box testing frameworks that surface subtle failure modes. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep systems expertise with practical tooling that accelerates deployment and testing across diverse architectures. An unexpected detail: alongside his engineering work he holds a certificate in Spanish language and literature, reflecting a broader curiosity beyond systems research.
11 years of coding experience
University of California Santa CruzSavitribai Phule Pune University
English, Spanish, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit
Github Skills (9)
gleam6
distributed-computing5
programming-language3
distributed-programming2
distributed-systems2
rust1
distributed-database1
qemu1
cli1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
devashishp/Content-Based-Image-Retrieval
Jun 2016 - Dec 2022
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 6 months
devashishp/thursday
Aug 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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