Kumar Sidhartha

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 7 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of experience in technology leadership.
Expertise in cloud-native services and infrastructure platforms.
Proven track record in product innovation and team leadership.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on infrastructure and cloud-native solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ComputingInfrastructureSoftware DevelopmentData Center ManagementInfrastructure DesignDiagnostics DesignFirmware DevelopmentDiagnostics

Other Skills

Application DevelopmentArchitectureArchitecturesCC++CLI DevelopmentClearCaseCloud Native ServicesCloud SecurityCloud ServicesCloud StorageComputer HardwareDMTF StandardsDebuggingDefect Resolution

About

Strategic technology leader with over two decades of experience driving product innovation, and organizational scaling at global technology leaders including Nutanix, Cisco, Dell, Sun Microsystems, and Wipro. Deep expertise in building and scaling infrastructure platforms, cloud-native services, and distributed systems for enterprise-scale environments.

Experience

Nutanix

2 roles

Director

Promoted

Feb 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo

Currently leading Cloud Native India Org at Nutanix including:
NKP : https://www.nutanix.com/products/kubernetes-management-platform
NDK: https://www.nutanix.com/products/data-services-for-kubernetes
CSI: https://opendocs.nutanix.com/openshift/operators/csi/
CAPX: https://opendocs.nutanix.com/capx/v1.5.x/getting_started/
Before that led multiple teams at Nutanix including Day 0 Deployment, Day 2 Life Cycle Management teams

Cloud Native ServicesInfrastructure PlatformsDistributed SystemsCloud ComputingInfrastructure

Senior Manager

Apr 2018 – Feb 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

Cisco systems

2 roles

Software Development Manager

Promoted

Jun 2013 – Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 9 mos · Bangalore

Building next-generation Data Center Management solution - Unified Computing System Manager (UCS-M)
End-to-end ownership of all server and storage management features of UCSM including design, development, verification and escalation management
Driving UCSM release coordinating with different engineering teams, product management, program management.

Data Center ManagementServer ManagementStorage ManagementSoftware Development

TL/Software Engineer IV

Jul 2009 – Jun 2013 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bangalore

Design and development of several features mostly around server and storage management for Cisco UCS Manager like advanced boot order, scriptable vmedia, power management, consistent device naming, storage config, development of CentOS based utility operating system etc.
Designed and developed infrastructure for UCSM CLI (ucssh) including front-end parser (port of libeditline), communication framework with backend and session management. It's the most widely used tool by QA as well as by customers for scripting deployment workflows.

Server ManagementStorage ManagementInfrastructure DesignSoftware Development

Dell india r&d

Senior Engineer Analyst

Apr 2007 – Jul 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Design and development of Dell Online Diagnostics which caters to Dell's PowerEdge Servers and PowerVault storage product line. Part of the core team involved in migration to DMTF standard based diagnostics from scratch.

Diagnostics DesignDMTF StandardsSoftware Development

Sun microsystems

Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2004 – Mar 2007 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Worked on Sun PC Netlink Project as Sustaining Engineer fixing defects reported by customers. Also worked as Firmware Validation engineer for SCApp firmware (RTOS) which ran on the system controller of Sun's mid Range Sun Fire Server.

Firmware ValidationDefect ResolutionFirmware Development