Amol Palshikar

About Amol Palshikar

Technology entrepreneur & intrapreneur with 19+ years of overall experience. Includes 5+ years of general management, 11+ years of engineering management, 13+ years of tech leadership and hands-onsoftware development and coding experience.• Handled diverse responsibilities such as vision, product management, fundraising, marketing, businessdevelopment and sales as a founder. Responsible for system architecture, engineering management, software development and pre-sales customer interactions earlier.• Specialization in defining & executing Zero to One phase of product and team development. Have worked on more than 8 large and small products/projects from idea-on-paper to customer deployment in various capacities.• Lifelong learner with diverse experience across technologies, domains and business skills.• Built and managed 50+ people cross-functional and 25+ member engineering teams.TECHNICAL COMPETENCIES• Experience across several domains o Consumer IoT (hardware & software), EdTech o Enterprise Networking and Security - SDN, L2-L7 stack, Firewall, IDS/IPS, WiFi o Virtualization and cloud computing, disaster recovery, enterprise file systems and storage.• Worked on variety of technology layers– o Hardware design, firmware, device drivers, kernel modules. o Distributed systems, messaging, data management, virtualized services, serverless APIs. o Web, desktop and mobile applications for consumer and enterprise users.• Hands-on coding across several languages, technologies and frameworks. o Maximum coding experience in C and Java. o Wrote at least 20K lines of code in C++, C#, Adobe Actionscript, Javascript. o Managed projects involving development in Swift, Python.

Experience

1. Director of Engineering

   Google

   Aug 2021 — Present

   Working as a part of Google Compute VMware Engine team in Google Cloud.Earlier, worked as a part of Anthos team in Google Cloud

Education

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

  1998 — 2002

• Pune Institute of Computer Technology

  Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Security
• Flex
• C#
• Multithreading
• Web Applications
• Databases
• Disaster Recovery
• Virtualization
• Data Center
• Distributed Systems
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• High Availability
• Vmware
• Device Drivers
• Tcp/Ip
• C
• Programming
• Unix
• Spring Framework
• Software Design
• Software Development
• Spring
• Java
• Ria
• Firewalls
• Cloud Computing
• Architecture
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Engineering Management
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Wireless
• Storage Management
• Network Security
• Debugging
• System Architecture
• Wireless Technologies
• File Systems