Sowmya Manjanatha

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Westford, MA 01886

978-***-****

admgdy@r.postjobfree.com

SUMMARY

Experienced engineering leader and strategic thinker with a passion for bringing innovative new products to market. Critical blend of strong operational, technical architecture coupled with strategic business decision making skills. Able to balance technical development needs with business considerations of stakeholders. Skilled at identifying talent, building, inspiring and driving execution by focused, collaborative teams from concept to delivery and evolution. Experience in successfully conceiving and transforming traditional engineering processes to more modern and relevant approaches that reduce release cycles and fit critical business needs. Experience managing and scaling geographically distributed teams. EXPERIENCE

Senior Director Of Data engineering

Thrasio, Dec. 2020 - Present

● Leading a multi-disciplinary globally distributed team to evolve Thrasio’s data platform that enables data driven automation and decisions.

● Continuing to expand the team, while transforming the org structure to match business deliverables.

● Driving requirements discovery and innovation and strengthening stakeholder relationships to co-create and scale business further. HEAD OF ENGINEERING, HCP for Cloud Scale

Hitachi Vantara, April 2018 - Dec. 2020

● Led a Team of about 25 engineers (including managers and Scrum Masters reporting to me) reinventing architecture and technology for the Object Storage market.

● Delivered V1.0 within a year of launching the team that landed some of the largest customers for the portfolio.

● Drove significant innovation through my Team including a cloud scale key value object database, hybrid cloud and analytics features and kubernetes based containerized architecture.

● Defined and established Agile Scrum processes with shortened release cycles iterating and refining over time.

● Partnered with Product Management to set vision and product roadmap.

● Partnered with marketing, sales and services to position and evangelize HCP for Cloud Scale.

SKILLS

Strategic Leadership and

Partnership with cross

functional teams and business

units - product management,

marketing, supply chain,

finance, etc.

Transforming teams to Agile

SDLC model.

Recruiting best talent -

building teams from ground

up or expanding existing.

Cloud - AWS, GCP, Azure

cloud services, Big data

technologies, data lake, data

catalogs, kubernetes, Airflow,

Redshift, Kinesis hose.

Programming Languages:

Java, C++, Python, C++, many

others.

AWARDS

Hats off Award (2020)for

delivering the first release of

Cloud Object Store within a

year + landing one of the

largest customers for the

portfolio.

Multiple Hats off Awards

(2013, 2014, 2015, 2016) for

on time delivery of critical

functionality.

Nominated for Innovation

Award (2020) for producing

HEAD OF ENGINEERING, HCP Anywhere

Hitachi Vantara, January 2017 - April 2018

● Led a Team of about 50 plus engineers delivering file sync and share products at the Edge for the Object Storage core.

● Drove significant innovation through the Team that resulted in the launch of a brand new Edge file server client addressing the NAS market.

● Grew the Team from 2 feature teams to 5 enabling expansion of edge market to file sync & share and NAS offload domains.

● Launched and established an off-shore feature Team in India and in Japan. Manager Senior Engineering Manager, HCP Anywhere Dev Team Hitachi Vantara, January 2016 - December 2016

● Led the delivery of several critical features including a thin File Gateway to Object Store Edge client for supporting VDI deployments.

● Inspired the Team to innovate that later resulted in new strategic products for the portfolio.

● Collaborated with a business unit in Japan to secure entrustment funding for new development.

Technical Lead/Architect, HCP Development Team

Hitachi Vantara, April 2012 - December 2015

● Drove the architecture and implementation of several functionality for Hitachi’s flagship Object Store Product (HCP) including Cloud Storage Manager, Cross Site Content Verification service, multi-tenancy using IPv6 and VLAN fencing, Advanced Licensing, etc.

Software Development Manager, Indexing Team

Simplivity, September 2010 - April 2012

● Led a Team inventing a brand new flash based hardware accelerated indexing module for a high performance NAS gateway.

● Generated several strategic patents for the company later on acquired by HPE. Principal Software Engineer, Mesh Routing Team

Fortress Technologies,, May 2008 - May 2008

● Drove the design and implementation of secure wireless mesh routing components including features such as GPS based location gathering, route rebalancing, low cost route detection along with several link layer diagnostic services.

Advanced Networking Researcher

Boston University, August 2006 - May 2008

● Researched solutions to securing peer-to-peer delay tolerant networks (DTN) resulting in several published papers in well recognized conferences.

● Provided guidance to students to help define new problems and solution most patent ideas for the

Team I led in a year.

HOBBIES

Music, reading, chess,

volunteering for cultural

diversity exchange

organizations, hiking.

Master of Science: Computer Science, University of New Hampshire,2001 Bachelor of Engineering: Electronics, Bangalore University, 1994. PATENTS

● Method and Apparatus utilizing non-uniform hash functions for placing records in non-uniform memory - US 201******** A1

● Reference count propagation - US 2012/0290,629

● Method and apparatus for content derived data placement in memory - US 201********

● Resource Fencing for VLAN Multi-tenant systems - US 201******** PATENTS PENDING

● Adaptive Storage reclamation - WO 201-***-**** A1

● Optimizing mobilized/shared content storage through stubbing.

● Hybrid cloud asynchronous user data synchronization through event driven policies.

● Geographically stretched clusters across a hybrid cloud infrastructure. investigation methodology for several complex networking problems. Software Manager, Advanced Development Team

Bluesocket, November 2004 - August 2006

● Led an Advanced Development Team that invented a highly efficient 802.11 based wireless intrusion detection sensor module that was hosted on Bluesocket Access Point.

● Introduced a brand new remote management engine that managed thousands of sensors and included innovative features such as location tracking, intrusion trend detection algorithm, rogue device detection, etc. Senior Software Engineer, Advanced Development Team Bluesocket, January 2002 - November 2004

● Designed and implemented connection and secure mobility management and network segregation modules for Bluesocket wireless controller Product. Software Developer, ATM switching Team

Quantum Bridge Technologies,September 2000 - Dec. 2001

● Designed and implemented several signaling protocols and algorithms for Quantum ATM backbone network switch.

Senior Software Engineer,

Wipro Technologies,January 1995 - Dec. 1997

● Lead engineer responsible for transitioning GTE’s GTM switching software work from Phoenix Team to India Team.

EDUCATION

(Phd) coursework and research: Computer Science, Boston University,2006-2009.

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