Mukesh Gupta
Member of Technical Staff III (MTS-III) — Storage, Distributed Systems & Backend Platform
Contact details are intentionally omitted. Reach out via
LinkedIn.
Summary
- 10+ years of backend and systems engineering, specialising in distributed storage, data protection, and cloud-native platform development across enterprise-scale products.
- Delivered production features spanning microservices (Docker/Kubernetes), event-driven messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), cloud platforms (AWS, Azure), and system-level C/C++ and Python development.
- Proven track record owning the full engineering lifecycle: architecture exploration, multi-vendor API integration, customer POC delivery, and hotfix turnaround under aggressive timelines.
Experience
Member of Technical Staff III (MTS-III)
Cohesity NetBackup
Dec 2024 – Present • Pune
- Qumulo Multi-Tenancy: Migrated plugin from legacy V1/V2 to V3 APIs, designed Tenant-ID-to-VLAN mapping, refactored snapshot/export/deletion flows preserving backward compatibility.
- Pure Storage FlashArray File Services: Integrated REST 2.x APIs and SDK enabling reliable NFS/SMB multi-protocol share deployment.
- Isilon SDK Bug Fix: Root-caused snapshot-diff failures to a hardcoded size-validation defect (>4 GB files), patched and delivered tested build to QA within days.
- PowerScale POC: Simulated full PowerScale environment in-house; validated SmartConnect DNS delegation, load balancing, failover, and SMB Multichannel.
- Azure NetApp Files: Analysed ANF architecture; consolidated findings into reusable internal guidelines for future backup workflow support.
Senior Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies
Mar 2022 – Nov 2024 • Pune
- Cross-Vendor NAS Enablement: Implemented core APIs to extend NAS (NFS/SMB) support across multiple on-premise storage vendors; mentored team on integration patterns.
- NetApp Replication: Designed vendor-agnostic replication format; multi-threaded API handling improved discovery performance by over 80%.
- Snapshot Diff Infrastructure: Built reusable snapshot-diff framework bridging C SDK into Python via ctypes, backed by SQLite.
- SAN Consistency Group Snapshots: Standardised REST API payloads across Pure FlashArray, PowerMax, and EMC Unity for simultaneous point-in-time backups.
Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies
Jun 2019 – Mar 2022 • Pune
- AWS IAM Role-Based Config: Implemented instance roles, access keys, and cross-account trust with versioned vendor-agnostic schema.
- Licensing Module: Built Docker-based licensing service (VLIC format), metering by disk size, multiple license types with feature toggles.
- Azure Marketplace: Delivered end-to-end product publishing — compliance, packaging, validation, post-launch support.
Associate Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies
Jan 2016 – May 2019 • Pune
- Pure Storage Integration: Extended snapshot support for Pure Storage as a new vendor within CloudPoint.
- Volume Manager Escalations: Resolved critical multipathing bugs across Linux (RHEL/SUSE), Solaris, and AIX.
Education
PG Diploma in Embedded Systems and Design
Sunbeam CDAC ACTS, Pune
2015
B.E. in Electronics and Communication
Leelavati Awhad Institute of Engineering, Mumbai University
2014
Diploma in Electronics and Communication
S. S. Jondhle Polytechnic, Maharashtra State Board
2011
Skills