Vaishnav Kovvuri
Director, Engineering at NetApp
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVaishnav Kovvuri is a seasoned technology executive and Director of Engineering based in Sunnyvale with over 20 years of experience building high-performance, scalable storage and networking products across startups and large enterprises. He combines hands-on protocol and backend engineering expertise (CIFS/SMB, WAN optimization, cloud file services) with product leadership, having led Talon Storage from inception to acquisition and integrated its offerings into NetApp’s portfolio. Known for improving product performance dramatically (examples include 5x and 150% improvements) and shipping SaaS and cloud-native solutions across Azure/AWS/GCP, he owns roadmaps end-to-end and scales distributed teams across continents. Vaishnav also contributes to open-source data orchestration work—improving Alluxio scripts and CLI tooling—reflecting a practical focus on core system usability. He has a track record of repeatable startup success and exits, plus deep experience aligning engineering, sales, and customer success to grow ARR. With an MS in Computer Science and roots in systems-level development, he blends low-level performance tuning with strategic product vision.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyBS Electronics and Communication Engineering, BS Electronics and Communication Engineering at Osmania University
Github Skills (9)
javas10
bash10
java10
orchestration-framework9
orchestrate9
orchestration9
testing8
data-analysis8
github7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
Alluxio/alluxio
Nov 2014 - Jun 2015
Alluxio, data orchestration for analytics and machine learning in the cloud
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Vaishnav primarily contributed to the `tachyon-start.sh` script, improving its functionality by adding features such as formatting journal folders and incorporating feedback. They also added a new CLI command for freeing in-memory files and folders. Additionally, they fixed a unit test case and addressed a file not found exception related to UFS paths. Their work focused on the core functionality and usability of the Alluxio system.
data-analysisvirtual-distributed-filesystemanalyticsorchestrationdata-science
kvaishnav/tachyon
Apr 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
memorydistributed-storagereliablestoragedistributed
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