Kantesh Mundaragi

About Kantesh Mundaragi

SummaryExperience and Career highlights:Lead and manage highly talented engineers with varying degrees of experience, with direct responsibility to deliver complex features in the routing domain for NSX. Provide technical leadership both for your team and more across the org.Delivered features end to end (management plane, control plane and data plane); driving from whiteboard discussions with product management, design discussions, writing technical functional specifications, implementing it in terms of code, unit testing, providing debugging knobs, end-to-end demo, performance evaluation.Currently working as Engineering Manger R&D for NSX, VMware; managing team of 12 members.Experienced Software Engineer with ~10 years of experience working in the environment of software engineering best practices. Have Master’s degree from University of Texas, USA and have industry experience from USA. Strong engineering professional skilled in C, Data Structures, OS, and system design. Have 30 patents approved by USPTO. Have worked on multiple solutions end-to-end from design to implementation with successful deployment. Participating in company conferences and hackathon, collaborating with folks across the different teams and verticals. New-hire ramp-up, mentoring intern projects, participating in the customer calls while dealing with escalations, working with partner ecosystem.@VMware - Currently working as Engineering Manager R&D, in the field of Network Virtualization – [Nov 2016 - Present] Previously Firewall Data Plane and Control Plane (ESXi Host and NSX-T Edge), now working on NSX-T Edge routing stack@NetApp - Previously worked as software engineer in the field of Data Storage –ONTAP OS subsystem software – SAS, HBA and RAID [Sept 2013 - Aug 2016]@University of Texas at Dallas, TX – USA Graduated with Master’s(MS) Degree in Computer Science [Aug 2011 - May 2013]Skillset and Interests NSX-T, Operating systems, Computer Networking, Network Virtualization, Linux Kernel, Storage stack, TCP/IP protocol stack, RAID, HA, GDB, Valgrind, gcov, splint, Wireshark, Git, Perforce(p4) Kernel/User space C/C++ programming, Multithreaded programming, Scripting Create functional/design specs, estimate work/plan and implementation along with unit/automated tests.

Experience

1. Supervisor

   Broadcom

   Nov 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Lead and manage highly talented engineers with varying degrees of experience, with direct responsibility to deliver complex features in the routing domain for NSX.* Provide technical leadership both for your team and more across the org.* Engineering execution through all phases of our product development lifecycle.* Work with engineers on technical and career growth plans while promoting our values and culture.* Bring a strong sense of service ownership through development and after release.* Drive high quality and on-time delivery of features/solutions.* Managing and mentoring a team of skilled developers to meet performance and career goals * Participating in planning discussions on new features and tasks for upcoming sprints * Helping program managers hold regular stand-ups with the team and helping resolve any blockers that may arise * Identifying potential improvements in workflow and tools to optimize developer productivity

Education

• The University of Texas at Dallas

  Masters in Computer Science, Computer Science

  2011 — 2013

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

  BE-Undergraduation, Computer Science

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• C
• Linux
• Multithreading
• C++
• Shell Scripting
• Python
• Software Development
• Operating Systems
• Algorithms
• Data Structures
• Raid
• Storage
• High Availability
• Unix
• Gdb
• Gcc/G++
• Sockets
• Tcp/Ip
• Wireshark
• Valgrind
• Gprof
• X86 Assembly
• Perforce
• Gnu Debugger
• Rtos
• Debugging
• Embedded Software
• Computer Networking
• Network Virtualization
• Vmware Nsx
• Network Security
• Vmware Esx
• Git