Vadiraj Hosur has experience in storage networking, databases, and various interests. He has a BS in Computer Engineering from Pune University, India and an MS from San Jose State. His early career included device driver development and DCOM programming. He implemented backup and restore infrastructure for Kuokoa Networks and worked on NDMP, file systems, and a database file system at Pillar Data Systems. His database experience includes in-memory optimizations and row access methods. His interests include scalable storage solutions, object storage, and distributed file systems.