Piyush Verma

Founder And CTO at Last9

Piyush Verma has a diverse and extensive work experience spanning over several years. Piyush is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at Last9 Inc, a Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) platform. In this role, they focus on managing the complexity of distributed systems and improving system reliability.

Prior to this, Piyush worked as the Head of Site Reliability Engineering at Trusting Social from July 2018 to January 2020. Here, they established a cross-geographical SRE culture and team that managed 6 data centers and cloud deployments across 4 countries. Piyush also led efforts to scale uptime and developed a runtime for both cloud and air-gap deployments.

Piyush has also founded their own technology consulting company called Oogway Consulting from April 2016 to July 2018. Piyush provided consulting services in the areas of architecture, data, and processes to organizations including Gojek, TrustingSocial, and FinAccel.

Additionally, Piyush worked as a Cloud Architect at DataStax from October 2016 to June 2018. Piyush played a crucial role in designing DataStax Managed Cloud, a hosted and managed service for running DataStax Enterprise in various cloud environments.

Before joining DataStax, Piyush was a Principal Infrastructure Engineer at DataScale, Inc from April 2015 to October 2016. Piyush was involved in building and maintaining a solution to run Apache Cassandra and Spark as a hosted and managed service.

Piyush's career started with co-founding Siminars, an online training and education platform, where they served as the Co-Founder and CTO from December 2009 to January 2015. Piyush gained valuable experience in software engineering, production systems management, and maintaining large codebases.

Piyush also founded Awaaz.me in February 2009, aiming to build an audio platform with transcript generation. Piyush conducted a successful pilot with an NGO in Bangalore and Copenhagen.

Piyush has prior experience as a Software Engineer at Chaupaati Bazaar, where they helped build the SMS server and migrated the backend systems. Piyush also worked as a Software Engineer at Sapphire Mobile Systems, contributing to various areas of their technology stack.

Furthermore, Piyush contributed to the Python support for KDevelop as a Free Software Developer at KDE from March 2006 to December 2007. Piyush implemented a Python grammar and a JIT parser, enhancing the IDE's functionality.

Overall, Piyush Verma has a strong background in site reliability engineering, cloud architecture, technology consulting, and software engineering.

Piyush Verma earned a Bachelor of Technology (BTech) degree in Computer Science from J.C. Bose University of Science and Technology, YMCA. The specific start and end years for this education were not provided.

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  • Founder And CTO

    January, 2020 - present

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