Myna Vajha
Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolMyna Vajha is an assistant professor and researcher in coding theory with 11 years of industry and academic experience, currently on faculty at IIT Hyderabad after a technical leadership stint at Qualcomm. She holds a Ph.D. from IISc and an M.S. from USC, blending deep theoretical expertise with hands-on engineering in wireless and embedded systems. At Qualcomm she progressed from engineer roles to staff engineer, driving low-level modem, multithreading, and performance-profiling work that resolved critical reliability issues in production devices. Her background includes storage systems work at NetApp and research support roles at IISc, reflecting a pattern of moving between applied research and product-quality engineering. Myna maintains an academic presence via Google Scholar and a public GitHub, signaling ongoing engagement with reproducible research and open-source tooling. Based in Bengaluru, she brings uncommon breadth: rigorous coding-theory scholarship paired with practical experience shipping firmware and system software at scale.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Coding Theory, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Coding Theory at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at IIT kharagpur
English, Telugu, Hindi
Github Skills (15)
fuse10
ceph10
storage10
kubernetes10
hdfs10
distributed-file-system10
high-performance10
object-store10
smb10
replication10
posix10
iscsi10
nfs10
cloud-storage10
block-storage10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mynaramana/ceph
Feb 2017 - Aug 2019
Ceph is a distributed object, block, and file storage platform
Contributions:1 PR, 72 pushes, 8 branches in 2 years 6 months
ceph
mynaramana/ceph-erasure-code-corpus
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Objects erasure encoded by Ceph
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
erasureencodedceph
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