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Work Experience
Staff Engineer
Nutanix, Seattle, WA: Jul 2015 to Present
- API Gateway, Load Balancer, and Scalability
- Xi Cloud - Disaster Recovery as a Service, Runbooks, Application-level NAT. Patent Granted.
- Synchronous Replication DR, Witness based automatic failover. Patent Granted.
Research Assistant
File systems and Storage Lab (FSL), Stony Brook University, NY: Sep 2013 to May 2015
- Finding the Right Balance: Security vs. Performance with Network Storage Systems, 2015.
- SeMiNAS: A secure middleware for wide-area network-attached storage, 2016.
- Linux NFSv4.1 Performance Under a Microscope, 2014.
Intern
Nimble Storage, San Jose, CA: May 2014 to Aug 2014
- Performance Improvements - Spin RW Locks, Per-CPU reference counting
Senior Software Engineer
Toshiba, Bengaluru, India: Aug 2008 to Jul 2013
- Android Tablet - PlayReady DRM Movie Player (Backend), OpenGL ES 2.0 Shaders for rendering TruNote™ stylus inputs
- C Compilers for Toshiba Microcontrollers - Bug fixes, Optimizations
Education
- Master of Science in Computer Science, Stony Brook University, Aug 2013 to May 2015
- Bachelor of Technology in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, College of Engineering, Trivandrum under the University of Kerala, Sep 2004 to Jun 2008
Publications
Patents
- Gupta, K., Konka, P. K., Ramachandran, P., Vasudevan, A. O., & Pyatkov, A. A. (2022). Scalable leadership election in a multi-processing computing environment. [link]
- Beedu, B. K., Vasudevan, A. O., Ramamurthy, S., Ramachandran, P., Roychowdhury, S., & Sahukari, G. (2021). Systems and methods for implementing address translation services. [link]
Papers
- Chen, M., Zadok, E., Vasudevan, A. O., & Wang, K. (2016). SeMiNAS: A secure middleware for wide-area network-attached storage. Proceedings of the 9th ACM International on Systems and Storage Conference, 1–13. [pdf]
- Olappamanna Vasudevan, A. (2015). Finding the Right Balance: Security vs. Performance with Network Storage Systems [Master’s thesis]. The Graduate School, Stony Brook University: Stony Brook, NY. [pdf]
- Chen, M., Hildebrand, D., Kuenning, G., Shankaranarayana, S., Tarasov, V., Vasudevan, A. O., Zadok, E., & Zakirova, K. (2014). Linux NFSv4. 1 Performance Under a Microscope. LISA, 137–138. [pdf]
Open Source Contributions 
- envoy: Support for x-forwarded-host header, Nov 2021
- libjwt: Fix test build error when ‘libcheck’ version < 0.9.10, Aug 2020
- cpplint: Fix typo in README, Oct 2019
- gRPC: Fix cmake build for gRPC_BUILD_CODEGEN=OFF, Mar 2019
- Protocol Buffers: Add overrides in C++ code, Nov 2018
- Protocol Buffers: pyext needs c++11 in linux and mac, Jul 2018
- NFS-Ganesha: Support stacking multiple FSALs, Oct 2014
Honors and Awards
- Featured in Marquis Who’s Who, Jul 2024
- Nutanix Hackathon 8.0: Multiple Awards for Multicloud Service Mesh, Feb 2022
- Best of category ‘Security in the Hybrid Multicloud World’
- Best of competition ‘Most Creative’
- Nutanix: Superhero Award, Feb 2018
- Nutanix Hackathon: Best of Seattle Award for Synchronous Replication of VMs on Acropolis Hypervisor (with automatic failover and failback), Oct 2018
- Facebook Summer of Hack - New York City: 3rd place for the HipHop Android App, Oct 2013
- Most Rev Dr Joseph Mar Iraneous Trophy: Best student in Computer Science, 2004
Music
- Pambayaarin Ponpulinathil (Devotional Ayyappa song), Jan 2021
Contact Information
- arunov [dot] music [at] gmail [dot] com