Head of India Engineering

Building Engineering team in Bengaluru for Project44

Led data plane team for Amazon Opensearch managed service, serverless ingestion and metadata service.

Led cloud infrastructure and hadoop teams responsible for running Qubole big data analytics in AWS, Azure, GCP & OCI.

Leading backup and disaster recovery team in India with focus on delivering Disaster Recovery As A Service on Nutanix's own public cloud.

Hands-on manager for a Nutanix Development team in Bangalore office. Build, lead and grow the existing development team while also contributing to the development effort when necessary.Built multiple high performing teams from scratch in India.Active involvement in campus/intern/lateral hiring, boot camp sessions, new joinee ramp up etc.End to end ownership of over 10 data protection features for Nutanix Hybrid Cloud OS: DRaaS, Recovery Plan, Cloud Connect, Async/Near Sync DR, Cross Hypervisor DR, Hyper V, Self Service Restore etc.Ensured the timely delivery of more than 20 features, being developed by core data path team, with high quality.

Design and development for data protection features. Worked on running Nutanix virtual appliance in AWS & Azure and replication of data in cloud from on-premise Nutanix appliance.

Technical leading the NetScaler Infrastructure/SSLVPN team in India, responsible for new hires, mentoring, design and code reviews etc.Design and development of various high impact features:-o Cloud Bridge product’s encryption layer.o Enabling Access Gateway for multi-node and multi-core mode.o Web Interface on NetScaler.o Clientless VPN.o Form Based SSO.o Auditlog Infrastructure.o Policy Infrastructure, policy EngineFiled more than 13 patent applications in above areas.

Techincal Lead of SSLVPN team in India.

Development of VxFS (Veritas File Systems)/CFS (cluster file system) features for HP-UX.Worked on Unified cache (page cache backed by buffer cache) implementation for filesystem read path for HP-UX and other feature/test implementation for Solaris too.