Senthil Kumar
Senior Product Manager at NetApp
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSenthil Kumar is a Senior Product Manager with 21+ years of experience across storage, cloud, networking, and telecom, currently leading NetApp’s Business Continuity portfolio to ensure uninterrupted data availability for mission‑critical workloads. He has a strong track record of shaping multi‑year roadmaps, aligning engineering and field teams, and driving adoption for platforms that underpin $400M+ in revenue. Previously he led SD‑WAN orchestration and compliance efforts at VMware, built Oracle’s 5G analytics products, and introduced industry‑first 400G packet broker capabilities at Extreme Networks. Hands‑on early in his career as a software and systems engineer, he still contributes to open-source infrastructure work—improving system monitoring and build processes for the SONiC project—bringing a rare blend of deep technical craft and strategic product leadership. Based in Bengaluru, he pairs an Executive MBA in Product Management with practical engineering roots to turn complex, regulated requirements into scalable, resilient products.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Master of Computer Applications, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Master of Computer Applications at Bharathiar UniversityExecutive Master of Business Administration - MBA, Product Management, Executive Master of Business Administration - MBA, Product Management at Institute of Product Leadership
English, Tamil, Malayalam
Github Skills (8)
sonic10
devops10
python10
dockers9
build-automation9
docker9
systemd9
bash6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:61 reviews, 5 commits, 19 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Senthil focused on enhancing the system monitoring capabilities of the SONiC image build process. Their work included creating a system health framework and implementing features to monitor system services. They addressed bugs related to system shutdowns and implemented code to exclude certain services from being monitored. The user also upgraded platform containers and updated the build process for newer versions.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
sg893052/sonic-buildimage
Oct 2021 - Jul 2024
Contributions:43 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 10 months
installablesonicbinary-imageimage-build
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