Anoop Jawahar Menon

CTO

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

20+ years in engineering leadership roles.
Expert in distributed systems and infrastructure optimization.
Proven track record in mentoring and growing engineering talent.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in scalable systems and distributed architecture.

Contact

anoopjm@gmail.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsScalabilityCloud ComputingOperating SystemsSystems ProgrammingNetworking

Other Skills

64-bit ArchitectureAlgorithmsAssemblyBashCC++Cloud ArchitectureCongestion ControlDHTDNSData StructuresDebuggingEvent-driven ArchitectureFacebook APIGNU Debugger

About

Engineering leader with 20+ years of experience architecting scalable systems, leading globally distributed teams, and delivering infrastructure platforms and products that drive measurable business impact. Proven expertise in setting technical direction, driving cross-org alignment, and executing at scale across ambiguous and high-stakes domains. • Skilled at partnering across engineering, product, and business functions to shape strategy and translate complex problems into simple, reliable, and performant solutions. Deep technical leadership across distributed systems, networking, and low-level systems programming — with hands-on contributions and technical mentorship that raise the bar for engineering excellence. • Track record of growing and mentoring top engineering talent, fostering a culture of ownership and innovation. Experienced in coaching early-career and lateral hires and scaling future leaders through intentional investment and sponsorship. • Technically fluent in distributed infrastructure (MapReduce, RAFT, DHT, Zookeeper, Encryption), systems programming (kernel, networking), and protocol-level internals (TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, SIP). Passionate about solving foundational infrastructure problems that enable platform reliability and developer velocity at scale.

Experience

Nutanix

4 roles

Senior Technical Manager

Promoted

Jul 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 8 mos

Leading the Curator, Zookeeper and Encryption team in India

Technical Manager

Jan 2020 – Jul 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Leading the Curator and Zookeeper India team

Senior MTS

Aug 2019 – Dec 2019 · 4 mos

Worked on customer facing, infrastructure and backend projects ranging from QoS (Quality of Service), fault tolerant storage computations, CPU and memory optimisations.

MTS

Jul 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs

First engineer in the Curator India team.
Optimise and enhance Curator Service of Nutanix Distributed Storage.
Curator is a background MapReduce-style execution framework for cluster management tasks, in the context of a distributed storage system used in enterprise clusters.

Appdynamics

Principal Software Engineer

Jul 2015 – Jun 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Joined as one of the first 10 engineers at the India Development Centre; company later acquired by Cisco (Mar 2017)
Bootstrapped Network Analytics with application-level granularity
Designed scalable event-driven REST server and in-memory metric store
Built core infrastructure frameworks
Leading multi-threaded architecture transition • Hackathon winner (RAFT protocol)
Active in mentoring and recruiting

Citrix r & d india pvt. ltd.

Staff Software Engineer

Dec 2011 – Jun 2015 · 3 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Led 64-bit NetScaler transition; modernized memory manager and refactored 70% of assembly to System V ABI
Developed memory wrapper APIs to support 32-bit app compatibility
Owned 64-bit build system and drove adoption across teams
Contributed to DHT infrastructure (patent pending) with versioned, clustered K/V stores
Improved inter-node messaging and optimized for jumbo frames and large-scale sessions