I am currently a software engineer at Panasas. I was a PhD student in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University in the research group of Greg Ganger in the Parallel Data Lab. My major research interest in in efficient, consistent and recoverable meta-data storage in large distributed storage systems (such as Ursa Major). Previously, I have worked with M. Satyanarayanan at Intel Research Pittsburgh and the Coda Project after completing my undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering, also at CMU.