Summary
Rakesh Ranjan is a Senior Director of Engineering with nearly two decades of experience architecting high-performance distributed storage, HCI, and data protection systems for both Fortune 500s and startups. He has driven flagship projects like VERITAS IS-X, Diamanti Ultima, Iris HyperConverged Appliance, and HyperScale, blending deep system programming and device driver expertise with cloud-native patterns (Kubernetes, CRDs) to enable stateful, multi-cloud workloads. Known for building production-grade control and data planes, he has delivered features from global deduplication to host-based volume encryption and CSI drivers that bridge on-prem and public cloud environments. Rakesh couples hands-on engineering with team leadership and mentorship, accelerating product delivery and technical growth across cross-functional teams. Based in California, he’s focused on applying AI/ML insights to storage telemetry and driving digital transformation through scalable, resilient storage architectures.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli