Jahnavi Arora

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Senior Engineering Manager at Bellmont Networks · consensus, Raft

Bellmont Networks
New Delhi, India · IST (UTC+5:30)
11+ years experience
Symbiosis International University
English, Hindi
Advising
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Overview

I've spent 11 years on distributed databases - first at Nvidia, now at Bellmont Networks. Mentored 10 engineers through their first promotion. Reduced cloud spend on storage by 38% in two quarters. Most at home with C++ and Raft.

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Travels often; replies within 48 hours

Skills
Raftconsensusservice meshC++
AdvisingOpen to advising
closes in 3 months

Open to advising pre-seed teams on Raft

Topics
distributed databases, consensus, service mesh
Format
Formal advisor role
Terms
Paid
Capacity
One advisory role at a time
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Seed to Series A teams

11 years of distributed databases. One call a month or async reviews.

New Delhi, India · remote OKconsensusc++raft
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Experience

  1. Senior Engineering Manager
    Nov 2023 - Present
    Bellmont Networks · 2 yr 11 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Moved 68% of storage traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Built the experimentation framework 8 product teams use to ship changes safely.
  2. Engineering Manager
    Jan 2021 - Sep 2023
    Accenture · 2 yr 8 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Grew the storage team from 3 to 39 engineers.
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 632ms to 165ms.
  3. Senior Software Engineer
    Mar 2018 - Jan 2021
    Philips · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Cut p99 latency on the storage services from 344ms to 166ms.
    • Reduced cloud spend on storage by 30% in two quarters.
  4. Software Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2018
    Nvidia · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · New Delhi, India
    • Shipped 21 launches on the storage team without a rollback.

Projects

Write-up: distributed databases in practice
2024

A long-form guide to distributed databases for people starting out.

Conference talk: lessons from storage
2024

What went wrong and what worked while scaling distributed databases.

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Education

  1. Symbiosis International University
    BBA, Electronics and Communication
    2010 - 2014

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