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Pavan Patharde

Principal Engineer | Distributed Systems | K8S

Greater Bengaluru Area

15+ years of work experience

NetApp
Mar 20251 yr 7 mosPresent

NetApp
Sep 20195 yrs 7 mosMar 2025

Greater Bengaluru Area

- Led platform design, implementation, and deployment for next-generation ONTAP Tools (OTV) VASA Provider packaged as OVA. Improved OTV scalability to an industry-first 150K+ vVols. - Led architecture for VASA Specification 5 to support VMware vVol+ certification readiness. - Designed and implemented support for NVMe and FC protocols in OTV. - Led design and implementation of ONTAP Tools Manager backend and platform capabilities for Astra VMware plugin / ADS VASA provider. - Architected Kubernetes-based HCI management node and migration tooling from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes, reducing release cadence from quarterly to biweekly. - Defined and implemented end-to-end observability strategy (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Fluent Bit), including customer adoption telemetry integration into AutoSupport. - Built polyglot microservices (Golang, Spring Boot, Python Flask) and developed Kubernetes operators using Operator SDK. - Mentored engineers on architecture and delivery best practices; contributed to innovation through patent filings and open-source contributions.
VMware
May 20172 yrs 5 mosSep 2019

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on Micro-services based cloud offering such as IaaS, SaaS and Productivity Engineering Tools. Technologies - Python, Flask, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Microservices, Angular JS, Node JS, Postgresql.
Lava International Limited
Feb 20152 yrs 4 mosMay 2017

Bangalore,India

Worked on Data Processing Platform, BI Integration, News Aggregator, Content Retrieval System, Content Platform and Other custom requirements on the Back end Side. Other tasks include managing the whole infrastructure for the apps. Skills: Python,PHP, Django, Laravel, AWS, Redshift, Data Pipeline, Mobile Analytics, HTML5, CSS3, HTML5 and Bootstrap 3.
Intacct Corporation
Oct 20131 yr 5 mosFeb 2015

Bangalore

Design and Develop Applications and third party integrations for Sales Organisation which increases conversion of Sales leads into customers. Intacct is a cloud Accounting/Financial Software based on SAAS Model.Worked on Proprietary PHP Framework, Bootstrap responsive coding, Web servers and Mysql Database. Skills: HTML, CSS, MySQL, MVC PHP, CVS, Web Services and Cloud Developer.
Tata Consultancy Services
Aug 20112 yrs 2 mosSep 2013

Bangalore India

Discovered the ability of adapting to new technology.Have developed good programming skills along with understanding of customer needs.Implemented tools for issue management which increased productivity of colleagues by 20%.

Pavan’s AI Stack

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Education

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

PG Program in Management, Sales and Marketing

Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

20181 yr2019
Basaveshwar Engineering College (A), Bagalkote

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering

Basaveshwar Engineering College (A), Bagalkote

20074 yrs2011

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Headline

Principal Engineer | Distributed Systems | K8S

About

I’m a Principal Engineer with 14+ years of experience building and evolving enterprise platforms across on-prem and cloud environments. I currently work on the next-generation architecture for NetApp Console, focusing on platform design, microservices modernization, scalability, reliability, and operability. My work involves cross-functional technical leadership, architecture decisions, and driving execution from design to production. My core strengths are Kubernetes, cloud-native systems, distributed architecture, and observability-led engineering. I’m focused on building robust platform foundations that improve developer productivity and long-term product resilience. I’m interested in high-impact engineering roles where architecture depth, execution discipline, and platform thinking are critical, while I continue building hands-on expertise in designing AI platform capabilities for enterprise use cases.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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langchain

mcp

openai

Work experience

Principal Engineer at NetApp, Mar 2025 - Present · 1 yr 7 mos

Senior Engineer at NetApp, Sep 2019 - Mar 2025 · 5 yrs 7 mos, Greater Bengaluru Area, - Led platform design, implementation, and deployment for next-generation ONTAP Tools (OTV) VASA Provider packaged as OVA. Improved OTV scalability to an industry-first 150K+ vVols. - Led architecture for VASA Specification 5 to support VMware vVol+ certification readiness. - Designed and implemented support for NVMe and FC protocols in OTV. - Led design and implementation of ONTAP Tools Manager backend and platform capabilities for Astra VMware plugin / ADS VASA provider. - Architected Kubernetes-based HCI management node and migration tooling from Docker Swarm to Kubernetes, reducing release cadence from quarterly to biweekly. - Defined and implemented end-to-end observability strategy (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana, AlertManager, Fluent Bit), including customer adoption telemetry integration into AutoSupport. - Built polyglot microservices (Golang, Spring Boot, Python Flask) and developed Kubernetes operators using Operator SDK. - Mentored engineers on architecture and delivery best practices; contributed to innovation through patent filings and open-source contributions.

Member Of Technical Staff at VMware, May 2017 - Sep 2019 · 2 yrs 5 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Worked on Micro-services based cloud offering such as IaaS, SaaS and Productivity Engineering Tools. Technologies - Python, Flask, REST, Docker, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Jenkins, Microservices, Angular JS, Node JS, Postgresql.

Senior Software Engineer at Lava International Limited, Feb 2015 - May 2017 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bangalore,India, Worked on Data Processing Platform, BI Integration, News Aggregator, Content Retrieval System, Content Platform and Other custom requirements on the Back end Side. Other tasks include managing the whole infrastructure for the apps. Skills: Python,PHP, Django, Laravel, AWS, Redshift, Data Pipeline, Mobile Analytics, HTML5, CSS3, HTML5 and Bootstrap 3.

Application Engineer at Intacct Corporation, Oct 2013 - Feb 2015 · 1 yr 5 mos, Bangalore, Design and Develop Applications and third party integrations for Sales Organisation which increases conversion of Sales leads into customers. Intacct is a cloud Accounting/Financial Software based on SAAS Model.Worked on Proprietary PHP Framework, Bootstrap responsive coding, Web servers and Mysql Database. Skills: HTML, CSS, MySQL, MVC PHP, CVS, Web Services and Cloud Developer.

Assistant Systems Engineer at Tata Consultancy Services, Aug 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore India, Discovered the ability of adapting to new technology.Have developed good programming skills along with understanding of customer needs.Implemented tools for issue management which increased productivity of colleagues by 20%.

Education

PG Program in Management, Sales and Marketing, Institute of Management Technology, Ghaziabad

Bachelor's degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Basaveshwar Engineering College (A), Bagalkote