Anil Sharma

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States37 yrs 10 mos experience

Key Highlights

Proven track record in multi-cloud product launches.
Expert in managing distributed teams and data platforms.
Strong leadership with a focus on customer-centric solutions.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with a strong focus on cloud infrastructure and data services.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud InfrastructureProject ManagementProduct DevelopmentData ServicesData Protection

Other Skills

CommunicationManage Complex ProjectsWirelessLeadershipStrategyNetworkingManagementWeb ServicesAgile MethodologiesSoftware DevelopmentTestingMobile DevicesEnterprise SoftwareSoftware EngineeringSystem Architecture

About

Technology roadmap owner with empathetic leadership and project management; stellar record of launching successful multi-cloud products with distributed, scale-out architectures. Problem solver credited with addressing customer problems and pain points; delivered market leading technology solutions and breakthrough innovations. Technologist with business and financial acumen; Exceptionally well-versed in staffing and managing distributed teams for data platforms and backend infrastructures; adept at connecting dots across technology, business, and sustainable growth.

Experience

37 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

1 yr 4 mos

Current Experience

Volante technologies

Vice President of Engineering

Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

Confluent

Sr. Director, Kafka Storage and New Initiatives

Nov 2022 – Jan 2025 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Mountain View, California, United States · Hybrid

Leader of the multi-cloud Kafka Storage team. Delivered cost, performance and reliability improvements for current stack and led multiple new architecture and product initiatives.
Delivered 10x performance improvements for Confluent Cloud
Delivered overall $7.9M in capex savings in two years
Led Kafka2 (K2) architecture initiative resulting in K2 architecture blueprint
Led and launched exciting new products based on K2 for early adopters
TableFlow for DataLake and AI/ML launched at Kafka Summit London 2024
Cost effective data streaming Freight launched at Kafka Summit Bangalore 2024.

CommunicationManage Complex ProjectsCloud InfrastructureProject Management

Stripe

Director, Relational Databases and Services

Jul 2021 – Dec 2022 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Hybrid

Leader of data services for next-generation Stripe technology stack. Partnered with application teams to meet performance and operational requirements. Collaborated with security, compliance and finance teams to achieve all strategic objectives.

CommunicationManage Complex ProjectsProject ManagementData Services

Amazon web services

Senior Manager, Aurora Database Storage Platform

Dec 2017 – Jul 2021 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Palo Alto

Managed the distributed, scale-out storage platform to reliably power Amazon Aurora cloud database service. Drove yearly operating plans, increased feature velocity and adoption. Pioneered longer-term strategic initiatives, plans, and prototypes. Achieved 5x growth of Amazon Aurora database adoption; increased storage footprint up to 300+ PB worldwide.

CommunicationManage Complex ProjectsCloud InfrastructureProject Management

Dastratum

Co Founder

Dec 2015 – Dec 2017 · 2 yrs · San Francisco Bay Area

Built an innovative, auto-tiering, cloud native file system to address customer pain points of data gravity, run-away costs and data protection gaps on the cloud. Designed and coded management console and distributed control plane grounds up. In charge of overall user experience and an active role in customer engagements.

CommunicationManage Complex ProjectsCloud InfrastructureProduct Development

Netapp

Director of Engineering, Data Protection Group

Jan 2013 – Dec 2015 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Sunnyvale, CA

Proposed, funded and led strategic initiatives at NetApp’s Data Protection Group. These start-up mode product initiatives included synchronous data protection, cross platform data fabric and data mobility to cloud. These initiatives opened up EMC's $6B top tier storage market for NetApp platform.

CommunicationManage Complex ProjectsData ProtectionProject Management

Motorola solutions | symbol technologies (acquired by motorola)

Senior Manager

Oct 2002 – Jan 2013 · 10 yrs 3 mos · San Jose, CA

Led creation of an award winning Mobility Services Platform (MSP) product from scratch. Solved mobility, deployment and device management problem for Motorola's $2B retail business and customers.
Rebuilt Motorola’s WiFi client team as well as technology stack to address widespread customer dissatisfaction over quality and features gaps.

WirelessManage Complex ProjectsProduct DevelopmentProject Management

Operating systems, middleware and networking groups, hewlett packard | agilent | commerce one

Engineering Manager | Distributed Software Architect | Kernel Engineer

Jul 1988 – Oct 2002 · 14 yrs 3 mos · Cupertino, California, United States · On-site

. Manager of a JMX standard based application management platform
. Manager for a new RMON probe product that grew to $80M in net yearly sales
. Software Architect of HP’s streaming video on demand business
. Senior engineer for HP-UX distributed computing stack based on DCE standard
. Kernel engineer for a high performance backup product that generated $12M revenue in the first year

Manage Complex Projects