Rain
About Rain
Rain is an engineer currently working at Oxide Computer Company in Emeryville, California, with a diverse background in software engineering and research, including significant roles at Facebook and Mozilla Corporation.
Work at Oxide Computer Company
Currently, Rain works as an Engineer at Oxide Computer Company, a position held since 2022. In this role, Rain is involved in building the control plane for the Oxide rack, contributing to the company's mission of developing high-performance computing solutions. Oxide Computer Company is based in Emeryville, California, United States, and focuses on innovative hardware and software integration.
Previous Experience in Software Engineering
Rain has extensive experience in software engineering, having worked at several notable organizations. From 2012 to 2019, Rain served as a Software Engineer at Facebook in Menlo Park, California. Prior to that, Rain was a Contractor at Mozilla Corporation for one year and completed a two-month internship at Mozilla in 2011. Additionally, Rain gained research experience as an intern at Microsoft Research India in 2010.
Involvement in Open Source Projects
Rain was a Steering Committee Member for the Mercurial Open Source Project from 2016 to 2018. This role involved overseeing project direction and contributing to the development of the Mercurial version control system, which is widely used in software development for managing source code.
Education and Expertise
Rain studied at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where they earned both a Bachelor and Master of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from 2007 to 2012. Rain specializes in domain modeling, structuring raw data into established formats such as Merkle trees and directed acyclic graphs. This expertise supports the development of high-performance systems.
Achievements in Data Structure Innovation
While at Meta, Rain led a team that invented novel data structures, which significantly enhanced performance-critical operations on the high-scalability source control server Mononoke. This work demonstrates Rain's ability to drive innovation in software engineering and improve system performance.