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Namit Jain, head of engineering at Nutanix India, a hyperconverged infrastructure solutions’ firm, has resigned to take on a global role with Silicon Valley headquartered, cloud-native, big data firm Qubole. As the Senior Vice-President of Engineering at Qubole, Jain will lead a global team of 120 engineers from Bengaluru.
Qubole is a cloud-agnostic, big data-as-a-service provider that processes nearly an exabyte of data in the cloud per month for enterprises that include Autodesk, Lyft, Samsung and Under Armour. The company raised $25 million in November last year, in a round led by Singtel Innov8 and Harmony Partners with participation from existing investors Charles River Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners and Institutional Venture partners, taking its total fund raise to $75 million.
“Qubole is one of the very few product companies where core engineering is driven from India, with 105 of the 120 engineers based in Bengaluru. It is the only company that supports big data engines like Hive, Presto and Spark and multi-cloud including AWS, Azure and Oracle cloud,” Jain told BusinessLine . “I always wanted to take on a global engineering role,” added Jain.
Joydeep Sen Sarma, CTO and co-founder, Qubole, said: “Namit’s appointment will significantly help Qubole extend deployments across geographies, as well as amp up R&D efforts, categorically in the areas of server-less computing, deep sciences and deep learning.”
An IIT Kanpur alumni, Jain started his career working on RDBMS (relational database management system) internals at Oracle. He then joined Facebook, where he worked with Ashish Thusoo (CEO) and Joydeep Sen Sarma, the co-founders of Qubole. At Facebook, he became one of the earliest and most prolific contributors to Apache Hive, a data warehouse system that is often used with an open-source analytics platform called Hadoop.
Jain quit Facebook to join Silicon Valley-based, hyperconverged infrastructure solutions firm Nutanix in May 2013, to set up its India operations from scratch, growing it to a team of over 250 engineers, which constituted one-third of Nutanix’s global engineering team. During his tenure, Nutanix’s forward looking revenue grew to a billion dollars and his product development efforts were instrumental in taking the company public in September 2016.
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