I am an engineering manager in the Database Transactions team at Oracle, working on the design and implementation of next-generation Oracle database products. I hold a PhD in Computer Science from The Ohio State University and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from BITS-Pilani. My research interests are related to storage systems and problems of scale in distributed systems. I have published several papers in top conferences and journals including VLDB, HPDC, SC, IPDPS, and BigData.