Ajay Bakhshi

About Ajay Bakhshi

Result-driven Senior Engineering Leader with extensive experience developing, testing, and deploying enterprise technology solutions for startups and large enterprises. Over 25 years of industry expertise leading global engineering teams across US and India, in building scalable enterprise grade software products, across various domains such as storage, data protection and big data analytics. As a key member of the core engineering development team architected and designed new products & features.A proactive leader who excels in chartering successful engineering teams from the ground up, incubating new products and achieving the organization goals. Managed managers and architects with team sizes of over 30 engineers, building highly motivated teams and delivering quality products that exceeds customer requirements.Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders and teams such as, Technical Directors, Product Managers, Customer-facing SMEs, Support, and Program Managers to develop roadmaps, release products and achieve organizational objectives. Extensive exposure in budgeting for people, resources, lab, and travel.A people leader with a track record of building and coaching sustainable, diverse teams of highly talented professionals.Key Accomplishments:• Led the design and development of NetApp\'s First Cloud SaaS Application Data Protection (grounds up), opening up new revenue opportunities in the fast-growing cloud storage market. Collaborated with key stakeholders to create the product roadmap.• Delivered security-related product changes for OnPrem Data Protection software, as a result the product security rating improved by 2 levels. • Developed the charter and roadmap for the AI/ML team of ATG, working closely with the senior management team in India and US• Introduced new features to enable the business units to address the ransomware market using AI/ML techniques• Improved operational excellence by reducing the support cost by 25-30% in handling misconfiguration problems and also enabling customers to avoid configuration problems.• Evangelized key ATG POCs with VPs and stakeholders for inclusion in the NetApp roadmap. • Achieved a recurring Cost Savings of half a million USD per year for cloud resources by optimizing dev-test environment.

Experience

1. Senior Engineering Manager

   Pure Storage

   Aug 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Pure Storage, India |Senior Engineering Manager Aug ‘23 – PresentGroup: FlashArray• Built high performance team from grounds up and created charter of the team• Leading enterprise adoption features related to Zero Touch Provisioning and Consolidating Network Ports• Leading Performance, reliability and durability enhancement in the core IO pathRegarding FlashArray: Pure Storage FlashArray is high performance all flash storage platform that provides unparallel performance, availability and efficiency.

Education

• CRSCE

  BE, Computer Science

  1992 — 1996

• Kendriya Vidyalaya

  12 Grade

  1986 — 1992