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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisA moment I'll hold onto for a while. Had the honour of addressing the First-Year Induction Program at Madras Institute of Technology Campus, #AnnaUniversity, Chennai speaking to a packed hall of incoming #MITians on "#Social #Media & #Digital Identity." We spoke about: → #Building a professional digital footprint from day one → Using #LinkedIn, #GitHub and #YouTube as learning tools, not just endless scrolling → Spotting misinformation and AI-generated content before hitting share → #Privacy, #cybersecurity, and protecting what shouldn't be public → The #STOP → #THINK → #VERIFY → #POST rule → Turning a social profile into an actual career #portfolio The best part of the day wasn't at the podium. It was looking up mid-talk and seeing Prof. Jayashree Padmanabhan, Dean, MIT Campus, and my mentor, seated right there in the audience. Speaking in front of the very person who shaped so much of my own journey and watching her student now standing at that same podium, addressing the next generation of MITians — is a feeling I don't think I can fully put into words. Grateful to #MIT Campus, Anna University #Chennai for the #opportunity, and to every first-year #student who leaned in, listened, and raised their hands with genuine curiosity. Here's to building thoughtful, professional digital identities — one post at a time. 🚀 Thank You Dr. Pabitha Parameswaran Dr. Sudhakar T Dr Vasim Babu M and all the other oragnizers for the wonderful arrangements #DigitalIdentity #SocialMediaAwareness #MITCampus #AnnaUniversity #Induction2026 #Mentorship #FirstYearEngineering #CyberSecurity
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisCollaborator. Accelerator. Launchpad. AI can play many roles. In a feature by Tech Disruptor Media on AI Appreciation Day, Vivek Soundarapandian, Revathi Balasubramaniyan, and Vinodhini Baskaran share how AI is speeding up analytics, opening access to insights, and helping teams ask better questions. Read their perspectives here: https://lnkd.in/gmBqihdV
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisOur on-call engineers used to get paged hundreds of times a year for degraded MongoDB shards, and each incident could take up to 3 hours of manual recovery work. Stripe processes $1.9 trillion in annual payments. Every second matters. We used graph search to fix it. Pathfinding algorithms can look at a broken shard, figure out the fastest route back to health, and just auto-remediate it. 2,000+ MongoDB shards now heal themselves with 30% fewer pages, and 12 days of fleet health reclaimed every year. We also reclaimed hundreds of engineering hours to work on more strategic problems. Learn about how we built it in our new blog post https://lnkd.in/gAr2BXfi #Stripe #MongoDB #DistributedSystems #Automation #GraphSearch #PlatformEngineering #EngineeringHow Stripe uses graph search and state machines to auto-remediate a global database fleetHow Stripe uses graph search and state machines to auto-remediate a global database fleet
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on this🌍✈️ A New Chapter: Relocating to Bengaluru! After an incredible 17-year journey in the USA, it’s time to head back to where it all began. I have officially relocated to Bengaluru, India, alongside my family! 🇮🇳 Being closer to family is a beautiful feeling, and looking back at our time in the States fills me with immense gratitude. The USA provided me with phenomenal opportunities, allowed me to build an amazing lifelong network of friends, and taught me invaluable professional and personal lessons. To everyone who was a part of that chapter, thank you! 🙏🇺🇸 What’s next? 💼 As part of this relocation, I am absolutely thrilled to be taking on a new role as the Head of Connect Engineering at Confluent! 🛠️⚡ This transition feels incredibly special and full circle for me. I am deeply excited to return to Connect because it is a product I was closely associated with during my early days at Confluent. Seeing how far it has come and getting to lead its engineering journey next is a massive privilege. A move of this scale takes a village, and I want to extend a heartfelt thank you to Deepa Naidu, Isidro Hegouaburu, Dinesh Ajmera, and Avinash Sridharan. Your tremendous support throughout this transition made moving with my family seamless and stress-free. I couldn't have asked for a better team to help pave the way! 🙌🌟 The energy in Bengaluru is electric, and I’m ready to dive straight in. Here’s to new beginnings, scaling great products, and all the exciting times ahead! 🚀🔥 #NewBeginnings #Relocation #Leadership #Engineering #Confluent #ConnectEngineering #TechInIndia #BengaluruTech
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisWe’re excited to share the general availability of Azure Monitor Metrics Export using Data Collection Rules (DCRs)—a scalable and flexible way to continuously export platform metrics with improved fidelity, lower latency, and greater control over downstream routing. With DCR-based metrics export, you can now route platform metrics to: - Azure Storage - Azure Event Hubs - Azure Log Analytics workspaces Compared to diagnostic settings, this approach brings significant enhancements—especially for large-scale environments. Key benefits: 🎯 Fine-grained control over what you export 📊 Preserved dimensional fidelity ⚡ Improved scalability & performance A big thank you to the engineering, design, and partner teams who made this release possible - your hard work, persistence, and attention to detail made this milestone a reality. Proud of what we’ve shipped together. Read more in the blog: https://lnkd.in/gxTxySVD #Azure #AzureMonitor #Microsoft #TechCommunity cc: Andy Shen, Rishabh Jain, Sonal KumarAzure Monitor Metrics Export Generally Available | Microsoft Community HubAzure Monitor Metrics Export Generally Available | Microsoft Community Hub
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisData drives every major decision, but accessing it often requires specialized expertise. Join Dinkar Pataballa at AI & Data for a look at how Meta is transforming data experiences with AI agents, enabling users to get trusted answers and build data applications using natural language. This session explores the opportunities and challenges of bringing agentic data experiences to millions of datasets and thousands of decision-makers at scale. Save your spot today: https://bit.ly/4vnGAHo
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisToday is day one. After 18 years at Microsoft, building SQL Azure, Azure DevOps, Azure for Industries, Microsoft Learn, and most recently founding the Agent Governance Toolkit, I'm joining Opaque Systems as Chief Platform Officer. I want to start by saying thank you to Microsoft. 18 years is a long time to build things that matter at scale. I leave proud of what we built, and especially proud of AGT, which I'll continue to support as it finds its home at the Agentic AI Foundation. That work isn't done. The community we built around it is just getting started. But something has been clear to me for a while now: Guardrails are not enough. Every enterprise giving AI agents real reach into email, CRMs, databases, and financial systems is running on "probably." Probably the agent did only what it was supposed to. Probably the data didn't leak. Probably the hidden instruction in that document didn't redirect everything. You don't run a regulated business on probably. At Opaque, we're building the infrastructure that turns probably into proof. Hardware-enforced. Cryptographically verifiable. Auditor-ready. Policy layer. Confidential computing. One trust anchor for the agent economy. Something big is coming. Watch this space. To Aaron Fulkerson, Rishabh Poddar, and the entire OPAQUE Systems team: let's build. #AgentGovernance #ConfidentialComputing #AgenticAI #CPO #AITrust #ZeroTrust #EnterpriseAI #OpaqueSystems #AGT #NewChapterVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian reacted on thisToday, we are excited to announce that Imran Siddique, the creator of Microsoft's Agent Governance Toolkit (AGT), will join the company as Chief Platform Officer. He will lead OPAQUE's engineering organization and platform strategy, working with co-founder and CTO Rishabh Poddar, who continues to lead OPAQUE's research and cryptographic platform direction. Enterprises are giving AI agents real reach — to read email, query CRMs and databases, and execute transactions and take actions with real-world consequences. The first problem is that agents are non-deterministic: they don't reliably do only what they're told. They call tools they shouldn't, reach data outside their task, and take actions no one approved. The second problem is that the same reach can be turned against you: a single piece of untrusted content — an email, a document, a support ticket — can contain hidden instructions that hijack an agent into quietly exfiltrating internal data. Most of the industry has tried to solve these challenges at the content layer — wrapping agents in guardrails that screen what goes in and what comes out. Guardrails help, but they're expensive and still leak: no filter reliably predicts a non-deterministic system, and none catches every hidden instruction. Our CEO, Aaron Fulkerson notes that "The prize here is enormous — AI agents working directly on a company's most sensitive data and systems, where the real competitive advantage lives. But most teams are connecting agents to that on 'probably' — guardrails that probably catch bad behavior and probably stop the leak. You don't run a regulated business on 'probably.' It takes three layers: guardrails on the content, policy on what an agent is allowed to do, and hardware that enforces both and proves it held. Imran built the policy layer the industry relies on. Together, we're turning 'probably' into proof." We are so happy to welcome Imran to Opaque Systems. You can read the announcement on the Opaque website. https://lnkd.in/grk-sMaAOPAQUE Hires Creator of Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit as Chief Platform OfficerOPAQUE Hires Creator of Microsoft Agent Governance Toolkit as Chief Platform Officer
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisI hit the two-month mark at Databricks recently, and the "new job" energy hasn't faded; it’s actually shifted into a much deeper motivation. 💪 It’s one thing to see the success of a company from the outside. It’s another to see the Builder DNA that drives it from the inside. 🚀 A few things that have stood out to me: • Builders Helping Builders: There’s no ego or knowledge hoarding here. People are deeply invested in each other's success. 🤝 • Customer-Centricity: Conversations are consistently framed around what problem we're actually solving for the customer. 🎯 • High Agency: There’s a clear bias toward action and craftsmanship. People care about doing things the right way. 🏗️ That combination makes it easy to stay excited about what’s ahead. It also means I’m looking for a Staff Software Engineer (Frontend or Fullstack) to join my team in Bellevue. The Opportunity: We’re kicking off a new initiative that touches a wide surface area across the platform. It’s the kind of project that offers significant impact right out of the gate, especially for someone who enjoys navigating complex technical landscapes and collaborating across teams. I’d love to share the vision and the technical challenges involved over a quick chat. If you’re a Staff-level engineer looking for a high-growth environment where you can actually build, let’s talk. Reach out to me directly and I'll be happy to arrange time to connect. #Databricks #Engineering #Hiring #BellevueTech #SoftwareEngineering #StaffEngineer #TechCulture
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Venkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisVenkateswaran Venkatasubramanian liked thisSix weeks ago I wrote about rebuilding Lotus 1-2-3 with AI. Since then, Opus 4.6 and Codex 5.3 dropped. I took them for a spin, built something new, and came away more convinced than ever: the AGI debate is a distraction. We're already in a different world. Read on for the details.The AGI Debate Is a Distraction — We're Already in a Different WorldThe AGI Debate Is a Distraction — We're Already in a Different World
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CDM Server: A Data Management framework for Data Intensive Application in Internal Private Cloud Infrastructure
Seventh International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing (3PGCIC-2012), University of Victoria, Victoria, Canada.
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Worked with open source simultor GNS3 to run Dell Force10 routers on virtual networks
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Modified GNS3 source code to enable working with router instances of Dell Force10. Supports creation of virtual topology and management interface for Dell Force10 router instances
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Winner in many national and international symposium
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Had gained great exposure by winning in many International and national level technical symposium. Had won many prizes in debugging, coding and paper presentation event
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Doron Katz
A number first. Most of what TPMs call 'status' is now coming from machines, not meetings. When 31% of merge review time is now spent on scope and not syntax, the TPM's control surface shifts. You own the merge-readiness gate, not the stand-up cadence. For TPMs running AI-augmented programs, the work is the same shape as before. Dependency mapping, risk surfacing, and release governance remain core. What shifts is the inputs and the verifications. #TPM #ProgramManagement #AI #AgentOps #AIAgents #TechnicalProgramManagement Source (Lenny / Whatnot CPO Tom Verrilli interview, Aug 2 2026): https://lnkd.in/g36zEbn8
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Sanchit Narula
The best advice I got on my promotions as a software engineer was from a Principal Architect at Amazon after he told me his story of getting promoted to Principal, and this has stayed with me my whole career. He said, very simply: > Your architecture can be a love letter to your technical brilliance, > but if it does not move customer and company goals, it will not move your level. That hurt a little. Because I recognised myself in it. A few years ago I wanted to design something with every shiny thing in the book: API Gateway, Lambda, DynamoDB, event bus, the works. On paper it was beautiful. In reality it was expensive, slow to ship, and did not match the skills of the team that would maintain it. So we shipped a hybrid architecture instead. Fewer moving parts, more reuse of existing services, cheaper to run, easier to hand over. Over time, here is how my thinking about promotions changed. 1. Start from the business goal, not the tech stack Before talking about Kafka vs SQS or MySQL vs DynamoDB, answer this first: What money, risk, or customer pain will this remove? Promotions track that, not the number of services in your diagram. 2. Ship finished products, not clever demos Leaders remember the feature that went live, stayed stable, and earned or saved real money. Drive the entire lifecycle yourself: design, build, launch, oncall, cleanup, docs. 3. Make the team faster, not just yourself Tools, scripts, templates, better CI, better dashboards. If people quietly say “things move faster when you are on this” your manager already has half a promotion case. 4. Do your share of the unsexy work Oncall, migrations, bugs, incident reviews. Senior folks who avoid this slow the entire org. Senior folks who lean into it become trusted very quickly. 5. Grow people, not just systems Mentor juniors, run design reviews, write clear docs, set standards. When your manager sees that you are already acting like the next level, formal promotion becomes a catch up, not a favour. 6. Be proactive about your promotion, not obsessed with it Have periodic one to ones. Talk about where you want to go and ask what evidence your manager would need to support that. Remember your manager has ten other people to manage. It is your responsibility to make your impact visible. Do not be desperate. Understand the timelines and work within them. As you get close to the boundary, collect the missing data points: impact metrics, incident write ups, design docs, peer feedback. Make the story easy to tell. Most importantly, work for the business, not for promotion-driven development. If your roadmap only exists to tick boxes on a promotion rubric, people can feel it. If your roadmap clearly creates value, saves cost, or reduces risk, promotion becomes the natural side effect. So instead of asking “What new tech can I use this year?” Ask, “Where can I create obvious business impact and leave the system and the people around me better than I found them?”
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