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 (40)
infiniband10
glusterfs10
kubernetes10
fat10
rdma10
iscsi10
nfs10
fuse10
openebs10
storage10
blob-storage10
hdfs10
smb10
data-exchange10
nvme10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mynaramana/ceph-erasure-code-corpus
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Objects erasure encoded by Ceph
Contributions:6 pushes in 1 day
erasureencodedceph
mynaramana/jerasure_plusplus
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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