Shikhar Mall
Senior Engineering Manager at Zest Softech
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShikhar Mall is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Seattle with six years of formal industry experience and a longer history of building storage and distributed systems. He leads engineering at Veeam after principal and senior staff roles at Dell EMC, Igneous (acquired by Rubrik), and Rubrik, where he focused on high-performance NAS, cloud data movers, and resilient restore/replication pipelines. A pragmatic engineer-manager, he combines hands-on systems programming (C/C++, Go, Python) with product-level ownership of backup, retention, and cross-cloud data workflows. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as kopia, adding retention and S3 backend features that improve long-term data governance. As a co-founder of Zest Softech he’s solved domain problems across fintech, education and microfinance, bringing entrepreneurial instincts to large-scale engineering challenges. Trained in AI/ML at Oregon State, he pairs a research-oriented mindset with production-grade systems design to push toward automating code generation and intelligent developer tooling.
6 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Rajiv Gandhi Proudyogiki VishwavidyalayaMS AI / Machine Learning, MS AI / Machine Learning at Oregon State UniversityICSE 10th Std., ICSE 10th Std. at St. Paul's Academy, GhaziabadCBSE 12th Computers, CBSE 12th Computers at MCEE, BhopalCBSE 11th Std., CBSE 11th Std. at K.D.B. Public School
Hindi, English
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Github Skills (10)
aws-s310
object-storage10
go10
amazon-s310
s3-bucket10
testing9
backup9
encryption8
deduplication7
python6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
kopia/kopia
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Cross-platform backup tool for Windows, macOS & Linux with fast, incremental backups, client-side end-to-end encryption, compression and data deduplication. CLI and GUI included.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:357 reviews, 12 commits, 50 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Shikhar's commits primarily focus on enhancing the storage API and implementing retention options for blobs within the `kopia/kopia` repository. They added functionality for setting and managing retention policies, particularly within the S3 storage backend. The code changes include modifications to the `s3_storage.go`, `internal/blobtesting/object_locking_map.go`, `repo/repository_test.go`, and `cli/command_repository_set_parameters_test.go` files. This work involved adding new tests, and ensuring compliance with retention policies.
google-cloud-storagebackupclidata-deduplicationend-to-end
kastenhq/kopia
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Fast and secure open-source backup
Contributions:30 reviews, 1 commit, 11 PRs in 1 day
securesensitive-datadeduplicationxorencrypt
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