Umesh Venkatesh

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India23 yrs 10 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

23+ years of industry experience with 18 years in storage.
Led teams to deliver multiple successful product releases.
Expert in agile methodologies and team development.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert with extensive experience in product development and team leadership.

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Skills

Core Skills

Project ManagementTeam LeadershipProduct DevelopmentAgile MethodologiesSoftware Development

Other Skills

.NET.NET CoreAPI DocumentationAgile developmentAgile software developmentAmazon Web Services (AWS)ArchitecturesBusiness AnalysisCC#C++COMCloud ApplicationsCollaborationContinuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)

About

My overall 23+ years of Industry experience and 18 years of storage experience should be of interest to a rapidly growing company like yours. Have 3+ years of working experience on developing solutions to host on Cloud. Have 12 years of Java/C++ working experience, especially coding in backend applications. Have 13 years of project and people management experience and diversified lead teams of various size, which should be of benefit to grow an existing or build a new team and deliver products. In various capacities in product & people development with Hewlett Packard, leading to my present assignment as Senior Engineering Manager in NetApp, I have acquired skills, expertise & experience in all phases of product development including product/technology roadmap and people development (developing key talent from MTS 3 to MTS 5 – Senior Engineer). Demonstrated leadership in completion of several product releases by effective project management & cross-functional / geo teams coordination. Focus on customer requirements and the ability to discern which are most critical. Strong experience in building and leading product development teams. Demonstrated proficiency in leading and mentoring individuals to maximize levels of productivity, while forming cohesive team environments. BE in Electronics with 18+ years’ experience in storage domain, continuous product engineering, project and people management in IT industry

Experience

23 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

5 yrs 11 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Netapp

2 roles

Senior Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2013 – Apr 2023 · 9 yrs 8 mos

Product:
As a Senior Manager in the Manageability Group, I own Engineering leadership for the critical Unified Manager product.
Accelerated product development from an 18-month release cycle to make a release every 9 months through introduction of agile development model.
Initiated key ideas to enhance customer experience and product value by addressing critical problems related to UM product database backup/restore time (reducing time taken from hours to mins by switching to storage snapshot technology)
And Improved UM product scale from 75 nodes (per UM instance) to 150 and to 250 nodes in multiple releases by consistent improvements in the product
UM 6.x/7.x/9.x achieved attach rate of 70+%
Process:
Merged various manageability products (UM, OPM, API services & NSLM) resulting in ease of maintenance for customer using single server instead of multiple ones and improving engineering efficiency by eliminating re-occurring cost and maintenance of multiple code-lines
Introduced Agile software development consisting of multiple SCRUM teams running in two-week sprints, delivering functional content after each sprint. Functional minimum viable
People:
Have experience of managing 30+ member team with 2 first line managers & 3 senior engineers reporting directly.
Lowest attrition rate & longer period retention of key engineers. Identified & developed key potential talent and have successfully got engineers to senior engineers’ level.

Agile software developmentProject ManagementCross-functional team coordinationCustomer experience enhancementTeam Leadership

Engineering Manager

Feb 2008 – Jul 2013 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Came up with several new features ideas and worked with product management to incorporate them into the product.
Built new Virtualization development team and successfully delivered the first release in early 2011.
Built a team to re-architect the existing OnCommand Unified Manager 5.x product using Java technology and using Scrum development methodology.
Managing OnCommand Unified Managers 5.x releases using water fall methodology and 6.x releases using Scrum.
Followed with successful releases of SDW 4.2 and SDW 5.0, as a result the team grew from 4 engineers to 12 at its peaks.

JavaScrum methodologyVirtualizationProduct DevelopmentTeam Leadership

Symphony services

Technical Lead

Jul 2005 – Jan 2008 · 2 yrs 6 mos

Built NetApp ODC (Offshore Development Centre) team in Symphony, operated it and successfully transferred to NetApp. This resulted in win-win for Symphony and NetApp.
Starting as an engineering lead and later as a development manager, I retained the NetApp business for Symphony Services by providing get well plan, precise execution and collaboration with NetApp teams for SDW 4.1 release.

Team managementCollaborationExecution planningTeam LeadershipProject Management