Sagar Dixit

About Me

Overall 5+ years experience in the areas of Storage/File Systems, Distributed Systems and Security.

Research Experience (1+ year):
Write-optimized Indexing and Tiered Storage Software (for SSD, SAS, SATA disks, NFS etc).

Industry Experience (4 years):
Involved in requirement gathering, product design and development, testing, maintenance and ownership.
* NFSv3, v4 Development
* IBM Scale out NAS
* Product ownership of NDAF and ONCRPC library
* Enterprise Security (RBAC, Kerberos)
* Filesystem Development on Linux Kernel
* Linux Device Driver Development

Technical achievements:
* Patents and Publications
* Articles on IBM DeveloperWorks
* Contribution to Open source
* Won several undergraduate technical project competitions

Portfolio

ACADEMIC PROJECTS
- Exported Kernel Page Caching for Efficient User Level I/O
- Continuous Data Protection Module in Linux Kernel
- One File Filesystem
- SSL Performance Analysis
- Enhanced Security in Ecryptfs
- Linux Cryptographic System Call

WORK EXPERIENCE
- IBM Scale out File Services
- NFSv4 Support with RBAC and MLS
- NDAF Product Ownership
- Applications using Transport Independent RPC Library
- Enterprise Identity Mapping in NFSv4
- The load balancing and high availability 'fs_locations' feature in AIX NFSv4

PUBLICATIONS AND OPEN SOURCE
- System to enhance rsync based replication in federated systems using intelligent hash pre-calculation. Click here
- Secure RPC using DES Authentication on AIX. Click here
- Configuring EIM for AIX NFSv4 using Kerberos cross realm setup. Click here
- Continuous Data Protection Module in Linux Kernel. Click here

Courses

Fall 2009
CSE 506: Operating Systems, Prof. Erez Zadok
CSE 548: Analysis of Algorithms, Prof. Radu Grosu
CSE 508: Network Security, Prof. Rob Johnson

Spring 2010
CSE 502: Computer Architecture, Prof. Larry Wittie
CSE 591: Design of Embedded Systems, Prof. Jennifer Wong
CSE 594: Cloud Computing, Prof. Radu Sion

Fall 2010
CSE 533: Network Computing, Prof. Hussein Badr
CSE 509: System Security, Prof. Rob Johnson

Miscellaneous Information

Hobbies: Music, Philosophy
My Favorites: The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, The Fountainhead, Ignited Minds, ....
Quotes from Bhagavad Gita

Contact Information

E-mail: sagar [dot] dixit [at] gmail [dot] com

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