Nag Pavan Chilakam

Engineering Manager

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 8 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Release Engineering and Test Infrastructure.
Led initiatives for Confluent Platform and Cloud enhancements.
Architected open-source storage solutions at Red Hat.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on data management and infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Release EngineeringTest InfrastructureEvent StreamingSoftware Defined StorageData ManagementEnterprise Storage

Other Skills

Management AutomationDevToolsBuild EngineeringKafkaSelf-balancing ClustersGlusterFSCephTest Driven DevelopmentCustomer Workflow ValidationsSnapLockData ProtectionWORM TechnologyHigh Performance ComputingSoftware as a Service (SaaS)Amazon Web Services (AWS)

About

Leading a team focussed on Platform Infra and Release engineering that includes Build and Packaging frameworks and systems, Product lifecycle tools, Developer Experience, Test Frameworks, Developer tools, Infrastructure and Platform Management at scale at Confluent(Apache Kafka and Stream processing De facto Leader). Experience in leading teams in Enterprise distributed systems for both data in motion(data stream platform, stream processing and stream analytics) and data at rest(enterprise storage systems, encryption, data management). Involved in ensuring engineers' and Org success through defining vision, Long term roadmap, OKRs, sprint planning and execution and regular reviews and appraisals. Demonstrated Experience in driving initiatives which are cross cutting across orgs, stakeholder management with PMs, TPMs, Marketing and sales. Exposure to Cloud and microservices technologies like Docker and kubernetes; virtualization, software defined storage, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, developer tools

Experience

18 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 8 mos

Average Tenure

5 yrs 3 mos

Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2023 – Present · 3 yrs 3 mos

Leading multiple initiatives for Confluent Platform(CP - OnPrem/SelfServe Offering) around Test Infrastructure, management and lifecycle Automation, DevTools, build and package engineering to ensure a great E2E Release Engineering experience.
Driving Customer success focused initiatives like improved management, UX, frictionless upgrades, and supportability for CP

Test InfrastructureManagement AutomationDevToolsBuild EngineeringRelease Engineering

Software Engineer

Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 · 2 yrs

Make Kafka THE "Event streaming platform" with Confluent. Worked on features like KRaft, Self-balancing clusters on both Confluent Platform and Confluent Cloud

KafkaEvent StreamingSelf-balancing Clusters

Red hat

2 roles

Principal Software Engineer

Promoted

Jul 2018 – Dec 2020 · 2 yrs 5 mos

● Architect for GlusterFS Filesystem and Ceph, both open-source distributed Software Defined Storage(SDS) solutions.
● Led a group of engineers to drive nonfunctional and customer centric Product development life cycle.
● Led activities for Customer issues, workloads, systemic, Nonfunctional test strategies for Gluster and Ceph
● Focused on driving Test Infra and development automation and Customer workflow Validations for RedHat Storage Products including GlusterFS, OCS(Openshift Container Storage) and Ceph(Block Storage and Object Storage)
● Strong emphasis on Test Driven Development involving Design Discussions and developing new strategies to ensure Customer Success
● Expertise in Interoperability(Cross-dependencies) Understandings, Customer Use-case understanding,Understanding customer trends and reproducing corner cases of customers
● Networking by presenting my learnings at different conferences including DevConf.cz(Czechia), DevConf India

GlusterFSCephTest Driven DevelopmentCustomer Workflow ValidationsSoftware Defined Storage

Senior Engineer

Dec 2014 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 6 mos

GlusterFS Engineering: Achieving True Software Defined Storage through highly scalable GlusterFS.

GlusterFSSoftware Defined Storage

Netapp

Member of Technical Staff

Apr 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Bangalore

SME for "SnapLock" product which is NetApp's offering for WORM(Write Once Read Many) technology for meeting long term retention policies(prevent data from any sort of modification or deletion) for Enterprise Archival Compliance and Management helping Enterprise Customers in abiding strict regulations like SEC 17a-4.
Also contributed to Data protection products like Snapmirror and Snapvault(High availability Sync and Async DR, Backup, restore products)

SnapLockData ProtectionWORM TechnologyData Management