Anil Kumar Boggarapu

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India27 yrs 2 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 20 years of engineering leadership experience.
Expert in managing large, cross-functional teams.
Proven track record in product innovation and strategy.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure and Product Strategy Leader with extensive experience in engineering management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Technical Project LeadershipProduct StrategyTechnical LeadershipTeam Leadership

Other Skills

BrocadeDevice DriversDisaster RecoveryEmbedded SystemsExecution excellencyFCoEFibre ChannelFile SystemsHPHP ProductsHP-UXHands-on Technical LeadershipHigh Performance TeamsKernelLinux

About

Visionary Engineering Leader with 2+ decades of hallmark career in leading cross-functional teams and spearheading the development & delivery of best-in-class software products & services. Strategizing all aspects of engineering activities & projects, defining product & market strategy for new product portfolios, benchmarking engineering methods, and presenting critical initiatives to CxOs. Technology, Business, and Idea Leader, successfully innovated, evangelized, and delivered multiple new product solutions. Exhibit a robust performance in scoping and managing complex R&D projects involving multiple cross-functional internal and external stakeholders. Expert in creating and executing Get-Well plans for product development, in case of crisis. Inspiring People Leader – Experienced in establishing/building and managing large, geographically distributed engineering teams (85+ member team). Turned around struggling teams, raised the average bar of engineers' innovation capabilities, and empowered them to take ownership of the development & delivery of complex R&D products from the ground up and taking to the next level. Drive people through change including organizational adoption of new processes, ways of working, and technology platforms. Contribute to talent building, retention & grooming and creation & conduct of boot-up camps. Influence individuals, organizations, technologies, and industry with proven leadership and facilitate seamless collaboration across cross-functional teams, ensuring efficient communication and successful project outcomes.

Experience

Netapp

Director Of Engineering

Mar 2022 – Jul 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Evangelize new technology, predict trends, and identify new opportunities based on trends; define future technology platforms and architecture for products and services
Product & Site Lead Ownership for Application Backup for Netapp storage system across On-prem & Cloud (AWS, GCP & Azure)
o Spearheaded a team of ~65-member full-time employees and ~15 contract employees
o Supported strong 2500+ customers with a total of ~450PB of application data backup to primary, secondary & cloud
Engineering Efficiency & Go-To-Market Strategy:
o Elevated ~25% engineering efficiency/productivity
o Amplified the adoption of products by helping the Product Management Team in better planning of features and employing various RICE & ICE methods
o Partnered with cross-geo product mgmt. sr. directors and business leaders (VP & above) for defining the product roadmap and working on GTM strategies

Technical Project LeadershipTechnology RoadmappingExecution excellencyProduct StrategiesProduct Strategy

Cohesity

Engineering Leader - Platform & cloud Infrastructure group

Feb 2018 – Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Bengaluru Area, India

Accelerated team & company growth:
o Built a new team, Platform/Infrastructure team grounds up in India
o Helped the Cohesity grow in India
Built next-generation infrastructure at Cohesity and enabled the company's infrastructure to build a solution which can work for Physical, Virtualized & Cloud (Multicloud) environments
Steered the team to build infrastructure grounds in the areas of SDN (OVS, OVN based), KVM, K8s, etc.
Developed product roadmap & strategy with Program Management, Product Management & Sales Organization
Supervised geographically diverse teams; engaged in people development & nurturing (resource development, individual career development)

Hands-on Technical LeadershipProduct strategy & roadmapHigh Performance TeamsProduct StrategyTechnical Leadership

Nutanix

sr manager, Engineering

Oct 2015 – Feb 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Expanded a team from 5 – 35 and groomed multiple engineering managers and technical leadership in 2 years
Built, grew, and delivered products/features in the areas of the core infrastructure of the Nutanix Hyper-Converged Infrastructure product
Led the delivery of various features like In-place Hypervisor conversions, Break fixes (Satadom, SSD), Imaging of cluster, One-click upgrades of BIOS, HBA F/W etc. Unified VM management across hypervisors (Unique in Industry).
Capitalized on opportunities for generating intellectual property in the product (generated ~10 IP)
Engaged with cross-functional teams across Engineering, Product & Program Teams

Team LeadershipProduct strategy & roadmapProduct InnovationProduct Strategy

Hewlett-packard

Software engineering manager

Jun 2011 – Sep 2015 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Played a vital role in the development of Next Generation file system for various storage appliances which can serve NAS, backup, archiving & FBO, with the ability to scale-out
Owned the delivery of various modules in the areas of File System Journaling, Storage allocation for file system, metadata, ACL, WORM, DR & Extended attributes
Chaired design discussions and brought the big picture, wherever required
Identified opportunities for generating intellectual property in the product, generated 10 Ips & co-authored 3 patents
Directed a performance vertical team to improve across the product, characterization of the file system with various types of workloads
Designed & created a boot camp for the new hires
Engaged with peer manager across sites for a coordinated delivery of modules having shared ownership
Collaborated & worked with cross-functional teams for faster delivery & high-quality product

Brocade

Manager, Software Engineering

Apr 2006 – Jun 2011 · 5 yrs 2 mos

Steered two projects SAS (Storage Application services) A platform to provide in-band storage virtualization using Brocade's propriety hardware & VCS (Virtual clustered switching), A platform to provide distributed configuration management.
Delivered SAS product, including co-ordinating and working with SQA & platform team for the smooth delivery of the product as Engineering Manager
Holds a Patent and published a paper
Identified the Partners Company’s (EMC, Fujitsu & Inmage) requirements to develop Storage application using the platform
Addressed multiple customer escalations & war room situations
Led team including resource allocations, appraisal process, individual development plan, roadmap discussions, etc.

Hewlett-packard

Software Analyst

Mar 1999 – Mar 2006 · 7 yrs

Designed & developed Multipathing solutions for HP enterprise grade disk arrays in linux & HP-UX

Mphasis

Sr Software Engg

Mar 1997 – Mar 1999 · 2 yrs

Involved in Development of Device drivers for Host bus adapters for fibre channel controllers in Sun Solaris, including support for hotplug capabilities