Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
Senior Director, Engineering | Distributed Storage & Data Platforms | Object & File Systems | Hybrid Cloud, STaaS & AI Infrastructure
- Role
- Sr Engineering Director at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Location
- San Jose, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Bhanu Prakash Gollapudi
Senior engineering leader and distributed systems architect with 20+ years of experience building and scaling enterprise-grade storage platforms for cloud and AI workloads.I have led global engineering organizations (50+ engineers) across the full lifecycle—from early architecture and prototyping to commercialization and revenue-backed delivery. My work spans distributed metadata systems, NVMe-oF architectures, object and file services, and high-performance I/O, with a strong focus on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence.At Samsung Electronics, I grew and led a multi-site organization delivering a multi-PB, 100+ node distributed storage platform, achieving 80+ GB/sec throughput and enabling Storage-as-a-Service offerings through multi-tenancy, QoS, and enterprise integrations.I’m equally passionate about building leaders, mentoring directors and principal engineers, and aligning deep technical execution with business strategy, customer engagement, and executive priorities.
Experience
Sr Engineering Director
Jan 2026 — Present · San Jose, CA, US
Education
Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
Master of Science (MS), Software Systems
Skills
- Storage Area Network (San)
- Scsi
- Fcoe
- Linux
- Debugging
- C
- Coding Standards
- Fibre Channel
- Iscsi
- Perl
- Kernel Programming
- Unix
- Hp-UX
- Storage Area Networks
- San
- Storage
- Device Drivers
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