Arpita Sengupta
Director Of Marketing And Communications, Red Hat, India
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolArpita Sengupta is a seasoned marketing leader with over 20 years of global experience across India, Africa and Australia, currently serving as Director of Marketing and Communications for Red Hat India. She builds high-performing, cross-functional teams that align marketing strategy to revenue outcomes, driving demand generation, channel enablement and C-level engagement across digital and physical platforms. Her background spans product marketing, market and competitive intelligence, and sales enablement at enterprise technology firms including VMware, HPE and IBM, where she led launches, segmentation and GTM strategies. Known for turning market insight into measurable pipeline and conversion improvements, she has repeatedly contributed to Red Hat earning Top Marketing Region recognition. Unusually for a senior marketer, she also has hands-on systems engineering contributions to open-source infrastructure (GlusterFS), reflecting technical fluency that helps bridge product, engineering and go-to-market teams. Based in Bengaluru, she combines strategic rigor from an MBA in Strategic IT with deep experience in enterprise storage, virtualization and cloud solutions.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Kalulushi Trust School,Zambia,AfricaB.E Computer Science and Engineering, B.E Computer Science and Engineering at University of MumbaiMBA Stategic IT, MBA Stategic IT at University of Technology SydneySchool, School at Mussoorie International School
English, Hindi
Github Skills (11)
c1710
storage10
glusterfs10
filesystem10
distributed-systems10
c1110
debug9
system-administration9
debugging9
gnu-make8
xml8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
gluster/glusterfs
Nov 2012 - Dec 2016
Gluster Filesystem : Build your distributed storage in minutes
Role in this project:
Back-end & System Engineer
Back-end & System EngineerContributions:418 commits, 1 issue in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Arpita primarily contributed to the GlusterFS codebase by fixing build issues related to the `-pedantic` flag in GCC, addressing warnings on `void *` arguments, and fixing initializations and array issues. They added functionality to debug/error-gen to print private values in the statedump and enhanced the CLI's XML output for geo-replication status and fixing failures. The user also made updates to volume set options descriptions and converted several volume operations to the synctask framework, thereby improving the project's overall stability.
erasure-codingstoragepersistent-storagedistributed-storagefuse-filesystem
Manikandan-Selvaganesh/glusterfs
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 commits in 11 days
glusterlinuxfilesystem
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