Ananth Nag
Vice President at Rubrik
Bengaluru, Karnataka, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolAnanth Nag is a seasoned technology sales leader with 11+ years driving regional and APAC business operations for cloud and security platforms, now serving as Vice President, APAC at Rubrik based in Bengaluru. He has led go-to-market and enterprise sales teams across India and ASEAN through senior roles at Zscaler, ServiceNow and BMC, consistently scaling revenue and field operations. Early technical roots (MCA) and hands-on contributions to open-source tooling — including a backend heuristic for Hadoop/Spark performance in the well-known Dr. Elephant project — give him a rare blend of product empathy and data-driven operational rigor. Known for translating engineering tradeoffs into commercial outcomes, he combines strategic go-to-market leadership with an engineer’s attention to testing and quality.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science, Master of Computer Applications (M.C.A.) Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMarimallappa School Mysore
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
javas10
apache-spark10
java10
apache-hadoop10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/dr-elephant
Sep 2014 - Nov 2017
Dr. Elephant is a job and flow-level performance monitoring and tuning tool for Apache Hadoop and Apache Spark
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:43 commits, 57 PRs, 35 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ananth implemented and tested a "Mapper Spill Heuristic" to monitor and tune Hadoop and Spark jobs. This involved creating a new Java class, `MapperSpillHeuristic`, that analyzes mapper task data to calculate a spill ratio and determine the severity of the issue. They also wrote unit tests for the heuristic, demonstrating a focus on code quality and thorough testing. Further contributions included modifications to the application's controller and help page views to incorporate the new heuristic.
performance-monitoringelephantapachebig-dataspark
nntnag17/dr-elephant-1
Apr 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:95 pushes, 4 branches, 20 comments in 1 year 7 months
performance-monitoringapachebig-datasparkperformance
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