Director Of Engineering at Cohesity
28 Years of Experience
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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25 Years of experience. Held leadership responsibilities accounting for Product/Roadmap Ownership, People Development/Leadership, Innovation, Customer Satisfaction and Cost/Budget management. Credited with hiring, grooming and retaining high performance teams. Specialties: - Data Protection: Backup/Replication/Archival for DBs, Microsoft 365, SAP, Filesystems and SAAS Apps - Data Management: Dedupe, Encryption/Key Mgmt, Tagging/Searching, SAAS & Cloud enablement - Data Storage: File systems, RAID, CIFS, NFS, SAN and Virtual Tape Libraries - Computing Systems: Linux/Unix, Hypervisors, Hyper convergence and Virtualization
Cohesity, SaaS/Cloud Product, Computer Software
Riverbed Technology
NetApp
Cohesity, Riverbed Technology, NetApp, Sun Microsystems, Wipro Technologies, Wipro Technologies
Job Title : Director Of Engineering
Company name : Cohesity
Period : June 2018 - Present
Summary : Leading the Data Protection team
From Scratch delivered Data Protection solutions for:
* Office 365 - Exchange online, OneDrive, SharePoint, MS Teams
* SAP HANA and SAP Oracle - Both solutions certified by SAP
* Oracle & Enterprise DBs - RAC, Active standby, Test/Dev workflows using clone
* Feature rich and highly scalable File system backups for Linux, Unix and Windows
* Scalable SAS model for Data protection services through AWS cloud
Enabled the product to enter Gartner Leaders Quadrant for 2020. Built the team from scratch. Hired lateral engineers and developed them to technical leaders. Groomed New College Grads to star performers. Scaled the engineering org to critical mass and self sustaining Engg. organization with full roadmap ownership and product accountability
Location : Bangalore
Job Title : Director of Engineering
Company name : Riverbed Technology
Period : November 2015 - June 2018
Summary : Engineering Site Leader for Storage R&D. Leading the product development for SteelFusion; the Hyper Converged Branch in a Box Solution for Branch/Remote Offices.
SteelFusion is a one of a kind solution, integrating Server Virtualization (ESXi/Hyper-v), Intelligently Cached Storage and WAN Optimization technologies. With SteelFusion the Line of Business application VMs can run locally in the Branch office over the Blockstore Cache with data being projected from the Data center/Cloud. This provides for the dual benefits of local performance and remote protection/manageability and facilitates the ZERO Branch IT.
- Built a Critical Mass Engineering team (Dev, QA and Outsourced Partners) from Scratch
- Empowered the team, Enabled product ownership, innovations and customer experience
- Delivered Software Defined Virtual Edge (SVA) for ESXi and Hyper-v
- Added multi protocol support for the product (NFS in addition to iSCSI and FC)
- Improved Product Ecosystem with multi vendor Storage & heterogeneous backup apps
- Cloud Enablement; BRANCH to CLOUD use cases
+ Next generation Edge/Branch Platform architecture
Location : Bengaluru Area, India
Job Title : Senior Engineering Manager
Company name : NetApp
Period : April 2008 - November 2015
Summary : Sr. Mgr / Director - NetApp WAFL Filesystem engineering. Complete Roadmap and charter ownership of Filesystem Recovery tools, Filesystem level Granular Encryption and ONTAP Software RAID and Resiliency Solutions
Senior Engg. Manager - DATA ONTAP Protocols. Second level manager responsible for continuous product engineering of NFS, CIFS, SAN and Data Protection stacks.
Senior Engg. Manager - Security Solutions BU, NetApp Bangalore. Responsible for complete engineering ownership of Decru DataFort line of products for File/Disk and Tape encryption
Accomplishments:
- Grounds up architecture of Filesystem level encryption and key mgmt. solution
- Product supportability improvements through autosupport analytics & health monitors
- Engineering charter ownership of Non Disruptive Upgrades and Non Disruptive Operations (NDU/NDO) of Clustered ONTAP Controllers
- Improved Dev and QA productivity with DVT whitebox testing and Simulator/Datagen tools
- Improved Engineer motivation and created career growth opportunities
Location : Bangalore
Job Title : Engineering Manager - Storage
Company name : Sun Microsystems
Period : January 2001 - April 2008
Summary : Sun/Storagetek - Grounds up design and development of highly scalable and enterprise class Tape emulation product (Virtual Tape Library) based on Linux common storage platform and compatible with most of the backup applications. Responsible for both Development and Functional QA of the product. Has seen through the entire lifecycle of the product from inception to beta. Handled a fairly large team and went through an intense product development rigor.
Wipro Home Gateway Intellectual Properties: Engineering manager for licensible software stack (DHCP, DNS, NAT, ALG, IPSec, PPPoE, HTTP etc.) development for Broadband/Wireless devices.
Home gateway was the first project approved and funded by the Corporate Innovation Council and my contributions as a prime author of the business plan were recognized by Mr. Azim H Premji.
Location : Bangalore
Job Title : Technical Lead
Company name : Wipro Technologies
Period : March 1998 - December 2000
Summary : Technical Lead at Cisco Development Facility. Worked on Software Development in VoIP and Net Management areas
Job Title : Project Engineer
Company name : Wipro Technologies
Period : February 1994 - February 1998
Summary : Part of UNIX Internals team for SVR4MP-RAS UNIX. Involved in the development of Version Migration High availability product and was part of the team that implemented Kernel threads (Light weight process) support to OS. Fixed number of defects and did enhancments to UNIX applications, drivers and platform customization aspects.
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