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==== Rajeev Agrawala - Goldman Sachs ====

Rajeev Agrawala manages the engineering for compute platform at Goldman Sachs. In his role he is responsible for Server hardware engineering, Virtualization Engineering, Linux Engineering and provisioning. His team is instrumental in architecting the complete platform which enables the custom low latency environment on one end and private cloud offering on other end. Prior to his current role, Rajeev managed the grid environment at Goldman. During his 10 years tenure in that role, he architected and developed a highly automated operational design enabling the environment to grow to 10s of thousands of severs. In that role, he also introduced Tier-2 servers to the firm. His previous experience include ASIC design and design of data acquisition systems.
 
In his current role, Rajeev has been working with Grant Richard (current lead for hardware management) and has helped him write the current Hardware management spec for OCP. Rajeev’s belief is that  the current differentiation in hardware management by vendors is gratuitous and his goal is to define a common interface for hardware management.