Summary
Monish Shah is a Senior Principal Hardware Engineer with decades of experience designing storage hardware and system architecture, currently shaping Azure storage at Microsoft. He has led hardware architecture for storage and datacenter products at Google and served as founder and CEO of Indra Networks, where his team built compression and encryption accelerators for SSDs, VTLs and backup appliances. His background spans NAND flash, ASIC/FPGA design and hardware acceleration of software algorithms, grounded in 13 years of R&D at Hewlett Packard and advanced degrees from Stanford and Texas A&M. Comfortable moving between hands-on silicon design and strategic standards work (including representation at the NVM Express organization), he combines startup grit with large-scale platform experience. Based in Pune, he brings a rare blend of entrepreneur-to-enterprise perspective and deep hardware-software co-design expertise that drives practical, deployable storage innovations.
8 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
BSEE, Electrical Engineering, BSEE, Electrical Engineering at Texas A&M University
Master of Science, Electrical Engineering, Master of Science, Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
Hindi, Gujarati