Madhu K R — Director of Engineering

• Qualified Director of Engineering with over 26 years of Industry experience in all the aspects of a product development team including hiring and developing a high performing team. • Good experience in Product life cycle including gather customer requirement, design, development, quality management, deployment and product sustenance. • Excellent skills and proven track record in leading multi-cultural, geographically distributed team in US, UK, Prague, Australia and India. Experience in managing cross functional team of over 50 engineers and 4 managers. • Good experience in transitioning ownership of products from US to India including building capabilities and center of excellence team to drive product roadmap from India. Specializes in inspiring teams to adapt innovative methodologies to achieve execution excellence. • Trained analytical thinker and creative problem solver. Quick in learning new technologies like AI/ML/Data Engineering etc and find ways to weave them into existing products. • Expertise in Organization building, People and Performance Management, Software Project and Program management practices, Organization and operational efficiency, Customer Interactions, cross functional teaming • Visionary leader with excellent interpersonal communication and organization skills. • High energy, Top rated people leader, Develops and coaches high performing team grounds up, drives teams with can-do attitude to beat stretch goals. Mentoring engineers from learners to leaders. • Certified in Executive General Management Program from IIM, Bangalore.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in software engineering and product management within the tech industry.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 25 yrs 5 mos

Career Highlights

Over 26 years of engineering leadership experience.
Expert in transitioning product ownership across geographies.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.

Work Experience

Rubrik, Inc.

Director (4 yrs 5 mos)

Unisys India

Senior Engineering Manager (1 yr 6 mos)

Ping Identity

Senior Engineering Manager (1 yr 3 mos)

Oracle

Senior Software Development Manager (2 yrs)

Snr Manager, Software Development (3 yrs 4 mos)

Engineering Manager (2 yrs)

Sun Microsystems

Sustaining and Engineering Manager, System Management Technology (1 yr 7 mos)

Manager (1 yr 8 mos)

Sun Cluster Engineer (3 yrs 9 mos)

Member Technical Staff (4 yrs)

Education

Executive General Management Program at Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

BE at Sri Jayachamarajendra College of Engineering

at DVS College

Madhu K R

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India25 yrs 5 mos experience

Key Highlights

Over 26 years of engineering leadership experience.
Expert in transitioning product ownership across geographies.
Proven track record in building high-performing teams.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in software engineering and product management within the tech industry.

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Skills

Other Skills

SolarisSun ClusterTroubleshootingInitiativesLeadershipNetworkingUnixHigh AvailabilityManagementStorageOperating SystemsVirtualizationClusterDistributed SystemsShell Scripting

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Experience

25 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Rubrik, inc.

Director

Jan 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Responsible to setup a Continuous Product Delivery Team which will focus on providing long term stability and last mile delight to our customers.

Unisys india

Senior Engineering Manager

Jun 2020 – Dec 2021 · 1 yr 6 mos

Senior Engineering Manager responsible for leading highly talented team in developing next generation security product ' Stealth'which uses Micro-segmentation, Zero Trust.
Responsible for development of Stealth Virtual Gateway, Stealth Secure Dashboard, Stealth Operation Dashboard.
Successfully released 5.1, 5.2 and 6.0 releases.
Lead the effort of Integration of Stealth integration with Unisys Cloud offering. Worked with Product Management in refining requirement for this integration, worked with Architect to come up with a proposal to install, deploy stealth in Azure and AWS cloud environment and also secure various cloud services.

Ping identity

Senior Engineering Manager

Jan 2019 – Apr 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Senior Engineering Manager responsible for delivering a AI based product to protect API infrastructures from cyber attacks and deliver deep insight into how each API is accessed and used

Oracle

3 roles

Senior Software Development Manager

Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

Continue to develop and drive Product roadmap and deliverables in the latest Solaris 11 release in the technology components such as Solaris Commands, Libraries, Deployment technologies, Remote Access daemon framework, User-land components.
Responsible in driving engineering team technical engagements with Major customers, Sales and Presales in the form of workshops, critical situations.
Working with managers across all technology teams in Oracle Systems group based out of APAC by influencing in binding and integrating them together to achieve business and career goals.

Snr Manager, Software Development

Promoted

Sep 2013 – Jan 2017 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Bangalore

People Manager with 18 engineers responsible for delivery of high performing team working in the area of System management products.
Global Technology Manager who is responsible for the delivery of product development and sustaining roadmap in data center life cycle management product i.e Ops Center, Storage management products like Common Array Manager(CAM), Snapshot management Utility (SMU)
Driving roadmap of Development and Sustaining of Solaris Commands, Deployment, Drivers and Kernel through First line Managers.

Engineering Manager

Sep 2011 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

Sun Microsystems was bought by Oracle. So I continue a new chapter with Oracle now continue the same role as what I did in Sun Microsystems.
My role in Oracle would be a 'Sustaining and Engineering Manager',
System Management Technology,Solaris Drivers, Solaris Utilities & Libraries and Install
Oracle India Pvt Limited

Sun microsystems

4 roles

Sustaining and Engineering Manager, System Management Technology

Jan 2010 – Aug 2011 · 1 yr 7 mos

Sustaining and Engineering Manager for Systems management technologies which includes product like Ops Center, SunMC, SMC, UCE, Cacao.

Manager

Promoted

Jun 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 8 mos

Working as a people manager in Solaris Desktop Technologies and SunRay Technologies

Sun Cluster Engineer

Aug 2004 – May 2008 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Working as an individual contributor for Sun cluster sustaining group.

Member Technical Staff

Jan 2000 – Jan 2004 · 4 yrs

Sustaining Engineer in Solaris Group. My primary responsibility was to work on Customer escalated bugs and resolve them at the earliest. My area of work was in commands and libraries in Solaris. Later I also worked on products like SunMC, SMC.