Summary
Sharad Jain is a seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-scale, cloud-integrated storage systems and leading teams through productization and acquisition. Currently a Senior Engineering Manager at Pure Storage, he previously led AltaVault’s file systems group at NetApp, where his team protected over 200 petabytes across 1,000+ appliances and delivered multiple major filesystem features enabling hybrid cloud strategies. He began as a hands-on engineer designing variable-length inline deduplication, garbage collection, and cloud replication for SteelStore, work that helped drive a successful acquisition by NetApp. Known for blending hands-on architecture with people and project management, Sharad introduced test-driven agile practices that achieved ~80% code coverage and cut development time by about 25% through pragmatic open-source adoption. He routinely partners with customers and executives to translate real-world requirements into roadmap decisions and has a track record of turning prototypes into funded products demonstrated to company founders and shown at major conferences.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technical Management Program, Technical Management Program at UCLA Extension
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Computer Engineering at Delhi College of Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles