Puneet Agarwal

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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs 7 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over a decade of technology leadership experience.
Expert in building diverse engineering teams.
Proven track record in cloud-native systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with extensive experience in engineering leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Amazon Web Services (aws)OpensearchBig DataCloud Computing

Other Skills

AlgorithmsCC (Programming Language)ClusterData StructuresDebuggingDevice DriversDistributed SystemsElasticsearchEmbedded SystemsFile SystemsGNU DebuggerGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)HP-UXHadoop

About

With over a decade of technology leadership, currently serving as VP of Engineering at project44, contributing to the company's mission to optimize global supply chains through cutting-edge technology. Recent experience includes driving engineering excellence and team growth in Bengaluru and leading teams specializing in cloud platforms and big data solutions. Known for fostering collaboration and innovation, enabling scalable architectures, and empowering teams to deliver impactful results. Passionate about building diverse engineering teams aligned with organizational goals and the transformative potential of data-driven platforms. Excited to support project44's vision by leveraging a strong background in cloud-native systems and global team leadership.

Experience

Komprise

VP of Engineering

Dec 2025 – Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Career break

Caregiving

Jun 2025 – Dec 2025 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

After an enriching journey as VP & Head of Engineering at project44, I took a short career break earlier this year to focus on some personal and family priorities.
I’m now excited to re-engage with the tech ecosystem and explore new leadership opportunities in engineering and product-driven organizations.

Project44

2 roles

VP of Engineering

Mar 2024 – May 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos

Head of India Engineering
Centralized and elevated global engineering talent by starting a Bangalore Center of
Excellence, scaling it to 100 engineers across 15 micro-teams

Sr Director, Head of India Engineering

Oct 2022 – Mar 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

Building Engineering team in Bengaluru for Project44

Amazon web services (aws)

Senior Software Development Manager, Search Services

Oct 2020 – Oct 2022 · 2 yrs · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

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

OpensearchAmazon Web Services (AWS)Software as a Service (SaaS)Elasticsearch

Qubole

Director Engineering

May 2018 – Oct 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

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

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Big DataHadoopGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)Software as a Service (SaaS)Microsoft Azure+1

Nutanix

Director Of Engineering

Oct 2017 – Mar 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

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

Nutanix india technologies private limited

Senior Engineering Manager

May 2014 – Sep 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

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.

Nutanix india

MTS

Jul 2013 – Apr 2014 · 9 mos · Bangalore

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.

Citrix systems

Principal Software Engineer

Dec 2010 – Jul 2013 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

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 Engine
Filed more than 13 patent applications in above areas.

Citrix r&d india pvt ltd (formerly, netscaler pvt ltd)

Sr Software Engg.

Feb 2004 – Nov 2010 · 6 yrs 9 mos

Techincal Lead of SSLVPN team in India.

Veritas india pvt ltd (now symantec)

Software Engineer

May 2001 – Feb 2004 · 2 yrs 9 mos · Pune Area, 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.