Ajith Kumar

Ajith Kumar is the current Director of Software Engineering at Akridata. Prior to this, they worked at HGST, a Western Digital company, and VIRIDENT SYSTEMS PRIVATE LIMITED. Ajith has over 10 years of experience in the software engineering field.

Ajith Kumar has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Anna University. Ajith started their career as a software engineer at Virident Systems Private Limited in 2007. Ajith was an early member of Virident engineering team and had the opportunity to take on key technical roles and grow up progressively from an individual developer to a lead.

Ajith Kumar was responsible for the development of a custom file system for EcoRAM (NOR flash based product). Ajith was also responsible for the development of the software layer that was responsible for abstracting HW level topologies and providing capabilities like flash aware IO scheduling, thermal and power monitoring, and feed back based IO rate control at a very fine granularity.

In addition, Ajith Kumar was responsible for full stack performance characterisation and improvements in areas of latency reduction, eliminating various SW bottlenecks in a multi-threaded linux kernel driver implementation, providing optimal HW level resource utilisation, fine grained IO QOS, dynamic behaviour modification based on automatic workload detection for optimal performance for varying workloads etc. Ajith was also responsible for predictable and consistent performance behaviour through co-ordination of foreground (new IO) and background (Garbage collection) activities.

Ajith Kumar has made significant contributions to the software engineering field and has helped improve the quality of software products through their work.

Ajith Kumar completed their Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engg., MYSORE.

They work with and Kunal Vasavada - Senior Director of Platform Engineering & Solutions. Ajith Kumar reports to Vijay Karamcheti, CTO, Co-Founder.