Prasanth Kalmady

CEO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India24 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Proven leader in building scalable data platforms.
Expertise in cloud computing and virtualization solutions.
Strong track record in mentoring and team management.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity expert with strong leadership in product development.

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Skills

Core Skills

Data EngineeringCloud ComputingProduct DevelopmentCollaboration SoftwareApplication ManagementCloud ServicesProduct EngineeringTeam Leadership

Other Skills

Agile DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesAmazon Simple Notification Service (SNS)Apache KafkaApache StormArchitectureCC++Cross-functional Team LeadershipDesignEnterprise SoftwareJavaRedisRequirements AnalysisSDLC

About

Versatile Engineering leader. Designs, develops and scales teams involved in building complex and large scale products and platforms with expertise in domains of Data Engineering and cloud hosted virtualisation solutions. Attract and retain talent. Work with multiple cross-geo teams and drive cross-group transformations and best practice adoptions. Current exposure - Data Lake, with several peta-byte storage on AWS; Recent past exposure - Multi-cloud AWS and Azure hosted compute virtualisation platform.

Experience

Sophos

Leader, Data Engineering

Aug 2020 – Present · 5 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Building a next-generation data platform for the cloud to enable customers for improved threat detection and improved security modeling.
Scale to handle millions of endpoints across regions and across different endpoint types.

Team ManagementAgile DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipData EngineeringCloud Computing

Stealth-mode startup company

Co-Founder

Apr 2020 – Aug 2020 · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Productize an idea in image management and collaboration.
Developed a lightweight collaborative image management software for vector graphics.
Market analysis (size, key players, trends)

Team ManagementAgile DevelopmentProduct DevelopmentCollaboration Software

Vmware

Senior Manager, R&D

May 2015 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Lead for VMware End User Computing's Application Management teams at BLR site. This includes leading a team of talented developers and engineering managers, working with Product Managers to build next generation products. Supporting customers and other key stake-holders.
Direct responsibilities for
Building App Volumes for cloud - Azure and IBM Softlayer.
Building common cloud services for App Volumes and Horizon suite of products.
Building workflows for multi-cloud deployments as part of Horizon suite.
Enhancing App Volumes for Horizon View which is on-prem solution of the product
Sustaining the stand-along ThinApp product with close to half million customers

Team ManagementAgile DevelopmentCross-functional Team LeadershipApplication ManagementCloud Services

Incendiary (www.getincendiary.com)

Director (Engineering)

Nov 2012 – May 2015 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Incendiary (www.getincendiary.com) offers Product Engineering Services across verticals and technologies. It offers opportunities to 'productize' ideas for start-ups.
Incendiary leverages 4 years of product development experience gained from developing the GreenPrint suite of products for customers such as Xerox, Staples and Prudential. Incendiary believes in getting the most talented people on board, nurturing them and building great products.
My work here involves
Mentoring technologists
Manage all Engineering activities at Incendiary's Bangalore development center, defining requirements, design & implementation reviews, process reviews and project staffing.
Support onsite pre-sales teams on new deals and interface with customers.
Write code (which i love!) and learn new technologies.
I also oversee activities of other functions such as administration, finance and HR at the Bangalore center.

Team ManagementAgile DevelopmentProduct EngineeringTeam Leadership