Contributing Writer

Ajaykrishna Raghavan

Ajaykrishna Raghavan is currently a Technical Lead/Staff Engineer in Google Cloud Storage. GCS exposes an object-based storage interface to customers using GCP. It is also responsible for managing data storage for Gmail, Google Photos, etc. Raghavan previously held senior technical roles at Nutanix, Datos (acquired by Rubrix) and NetApp. He has over 10 years of professional and research experience in distributed systems, distributed storage systems, enterprise storage, software engineering, and leading large engineering teams to deliver results. The products he built in the past resulted in millions of dollars in revenue. His R&D work in these organizations yielded six patents granted by the USPTO and he has six pending applications. He has published papers in top tier conferences, and also reviewed papers for multiple conferences.