Malahal Naineni
Software Engineer at Salesforce
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMalahal Naineni is a seasoned software engineer with 26 years of experience building and architecting large-scale storage and enterprise systems, now at Salesforce after a multi-year leadership role at DDN Storage. His career includes senior engineering and architect positions at IBM—where he held the title of Master Inventor—and early systems work at Sequent, reflecting deep expertise in high-performance storage, distributed systems, and scalable infrastructure. Trained at IIT Kanpur (M.Tech) and NIT Warangal (B.Tech), he blends rigorous academic foundations with decades of practical, production-focused engineering. Known for progressing from hands-on development to technical leadership, he consistently bridges low-level system design with product-driven delivery. Based in San Diego, he brings institutional memory and steady mentorship to teams navigating complex reliability and performance challenges. A longtime contributor to storage innovations, he often operates where hardware-aware software meets enterprise-scale operational needs.
26 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurBachelor of Technology, Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Warangal
Github Skills (88)
rdma10
glusterfs10
unix10
aix10
linux10
nfs10
data-exchange10
solaris10
freebsd10
lustre10
initramfs10
ntfs10
cephfs10
moto9
ads8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ganltc/nfs-ganesha
Jan 2015 - Oct 2020
NFS-Ganesha is an NFSv3,v4,v4.1 fileserver that runs in user mode on most UNIX/Linux systems
Contributions:1082 commits, 131 pushes, 13 branches in 5 years 10 months
unixnfsdata-exchangeganeshalinux
bongiojp/nfs-ganesha
Mar 2014 - Jul 2014
Contributions:67 commits, 10 comments in 3 months
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