When Aswin Karumbunathan first started working on the cloud data services project in early 2018, it was just an experiment. Today itâs much more. The Cloud Data Services team helps organizations turn data into value virtually anywhere by unifying applications on-premises and in the cloud.
âI was the first person to start working on it,â Aswin, a software engineer, explains. âThe first few months were really just me learning. Iâd never developed in the cloud before.â
Aswin appreciates that he was given the freedom to climb that learning curveâand to explore how Pureâs product might work in the cloud.
Software engineer Michael Yoo joined the effort a few months later to focus on one of the projectâs biggest challenges: performance.
âThat was the doubt everyone had early on,â Michael says. âOur software ran on our own, custom-built hardware, but the cloud came with a whole different set of limitations.â
Less than a year into his tenure at Pure, Michael says joining the still-nascent Cloud team was an early opportunity to take ownership. And to connect with teammates who could help solve performance problems.
âAt first, it was a struggle just to get our code working on Amazon. Most people arenât running their own operating system in the cloud,â Michael explains. âWe re-architected a lot of the design and eventually started to see ways to escape the bottlenecks. Thatâs when I realized this might be pretty huge.â