Gopalan Sivathanu

Past

• Senior Software Engineer at Google Inc., Mountain View, CA
• Research Assistant at Research Foundation of SUNY
• SW Engineering Intern at Google

• Research Intern at VMware
• Research Intern at IBM Almaden Research Center
• Assistant Systems Analyst at Cybernet Software Systems

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Education

• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• State University of New York at Stony Brook
• University of Madras

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Connections

97 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Gopalan Sivathanu’s Summary

Research interests revolve around the broad area of computer systems with focus on storage, operating systems, and distributed systems.

Gopalan Sivathanu’s Specialties:

File systems and storage, Operating Systems, Linux kernel internals, distributed systems design, systems performance and bottleneck analysis, systems security.

Gopalan Sivathanu’s Experience

• Senior Software Engineer

  Google Inc., Mountain View, CA

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  March 2008 — April 2010 (2 years 2 months)

• Research Assistant

  Research Foundation of SUNY

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  September 2003 — February 2008 (4 years 6 months)

• SW Engineering Intern

  Google

  (Public Company; GOOG; Internet industry)

  June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

• Research Intern

  VMware

  (Public Company; VMW; Computer Software industry)

  June 2006 — September 2006 (4 months)

• Research Intern

  IBM Almaden Research Center

  (Public Company; IBM; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 2005 — September 2005 (4 months)

• Assistant Systems Analyst

  Cybernet Software Systems

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  June 2002 — May 2003 (1 year )

Gopalan Sivathanu’s Education

• State University of New York at Stony Brook

  Ph.D , Computer Science , 2003 — 2008

  Dissertation: End-to-End Abstractions on Application-Aware Storage

• State University of New York at Stony Brook

  M.S , Computer Science , 2003 — 2005

• University of Madras

  B.E , Computer Science & Engineering , 1998 — 2002

  Project: Implementation of a Log-structured File System in the Linux Kernel.

Additional Information

Gopalan Sivathanu’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Company
• My Blog

Gopalan Sivathanu’s Groups:

•    The Official Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Group
•    Google Group
•    The Storage Networking Industry Association
•    Linux Expert
•    USENIX Association
•    Gnome User
•    Stony Brook University
•    File System Engineers
•    Computer Science @ Stony Brook
•    Google Android
•    Storage Professionals
•    SUNY Stony Brook Alumni
•    Ubuntu operating systems
•    Vim

Gopalan Sivathanu’s Contact Settings

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