Nikhil Mundra
@nikhilmundra
Cloud-native software engineer building distributed storage and Kubernetes data services that ship to GA.
IndiaWhat I'm looking for
I’m a Member of Technical Staff 3 with 6 years of experience building distributed storage and cloud-native data services. I’m a founding engineer for the Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK) product from inception to GA, leading Kubernetes-first operator design for governance, application-consistent protection, and disaster recovery across OpenShift and CAPI clusters.
I’ve delivered core capabilities like snapshot/restore, near-synchronous replication, synchronous replication, and restore for business-critical applications. I also built a cluster-less integration test framework that cut test time by 95% and infra cost, architected a global federation model for S3-compliant object stores scaling to 128 stores with Raft fault tolerance, and reduced container image sizes by 70%—bringing deployments from 4+ minutes to seconds.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Founded Nutanix Data Services for Kubernetes (NDK) from inception to GA, leading snapshot/restore and operator design for production-ready Kubernetes-first data protection and DR on OpenShift & CAPI. Architected Objects Federation across geo-distributed object stores (scaling to 128 stores with Raft fault tolerance) and reduced container image sizes by 70%, cutting deployments from 4+ minutes to s
Built a unified ETL pipeline for the Global Data Analytics Platform (GDAP) using Apache Beam and Kafka, integrating Java, Hadoop, and MariaDB. Contributed to stream and batch data workflows for analytics-ready datasets.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad
Bachelor of Technology
Grade: CPI: 9.08/10
Earned a Bachelor of Technology from IIIT Allahabad, with CPI of 9.08/10.
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