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Rushikesh Zanwar

Software Developer III @ Veeam | Cloud Data Protection || Ex-Veritas || Azure | AWS | OCI | Kubernetes | OpenGL

Pune Division

5+ years of work experience

Veeam Software
Sep 20251 yrPresent

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

- Designed a generic CSI-based backup framework by introducing a pluggable data-mover architecture, enabling the integration of Kopia and future backup engines without requiring framework redesign. - Enhanced platform portability by adding support for block storage, NFS, Azure Blob, GCS, and S3-compatible object stores, enabling consistent backup and recovery across hybrid-cloud Kubernetes deployments. - Built core microservices for Veeam Data Cloud’s Kubernetes Backup SaaS platform from the ground up, enabling scalable multi-tenant backup services and accelerating the delivery of cloud-native data protection capabilities. - Implemented Kasten-compatible backup and recovery workflows by designing Kubernetes-native orchestration services, improving customer migration flexibility and platform adoption. - Designed and implemented an Atlassian MCP skill that provides contextual access to Jira and Confluence data for LLM-based assistants, reducing effort in information retrieval and design document authoring.
Cohesity
Dec 202410 mosSep 2025

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

- Led an architectural overhaul of NBSM’s job scheduling pipeline — diagnosed systemic concurrency and thread contention bottlenecks, restructured the multi-threaded execution model, and delivered a 50% throughput improvement that directly reduced customer SLA breach risk. - Implemented granular file-level recovery for OCI cloud snapshots by designing a targeted indexing mechanism, enabling precise file restoration and reducing recovery scope from full-volume to file-level - Developed parameterized backup and restore functionality for cloud VMs, supporting disk type renaming, network reconfiguration, and persistent network retention, ensuring flexible and disruption-free recovery
Veritas Technologies LLC
Apr 20231 yr 8 mosNov 2024

Pune

Cloud Data Protection | Distributed Systems | AWS | OCI | Kubernetes - Optimized the deployment of NetBackup CloudScale, introducing efficient resource allocation strategies that reduced cloud costs by 15% and improved platform scalability by 20% across multi-tenant environments. - Led cross-functional efforts to deploy NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, driving automation of enterprise-scale snapshot and restore workflows and unlocking a 300PB+ revenue opportunity. - Designed and implemented a fine-grained Single File Restore (SFR) mechanism from cloud snapshots by building an efficient indexing layer, cutting VM recovery times by 30% and enhancing user restore precision. - Drove the development of an application-consistent snapshot solution on AWS by integrating Amazon EBS Snapshots with AWS Systems Manager (SSM), enabling policy-driven backups and achieving a 25% reduction in RTO. - Enhanced the Kubernetes-native Data Orchestrator (Extension to the NBSM) by introducing service classification, state reconciliation, and input validation, strengthening system resilience, security posture, and safe deprovisioning processes. - Defined and delivered a robust, parameterized backup and recovery framework for cloud VMs, supporting dynamic disk/network configurations and persistent recovery settings, ensuring high availability and minimal disruption during failover scenarios.
Veritas Technologies LLC
Jul 20211 yr 9 mosMar 2023

Pune District, Maharashtra, India

Kubernetes | Cloud-Native Backup | EKS & AKS | Multi-Tenant Systems - Engineered a Kubernetes-native Snapshot Manager supporting EKS and AKS, integrating NBSM, NetBackup, and MSDP-X with autoscaling and elasticity features, driving 40% reduction in cloud resource costs and 25% performance gains across backup workflows. - Designed and deployed a disk exclusion policy for cloud snapshots, yielding 20–40% storage cost savings and 15–30% faster snapshot creation times, enabling more efficient and scalable backup operations. - Built and enhanced a multi-tenant Data Orchestrator across AWS and Azure platforms, leveraging Helm charts, dynamic scaling, custom VNETs, and private links to support backup, snapshot, and deduplication workflows. Integrated NBU event logging, GUI-based log automation, and migrated to FluentBit for optimized telemetry and diagnostics. - Led initiatives to strengthen automation test frameworks, adding 20+ test cases and boosting code coverage by 10%, ensuring high reliability and resilience of mission-critical backup and snapshot components. - Delivered HA and disaster recovery enhancements through architectural improvements in orchestration logic, event-driven workflows, and scalable configuration management for enterprise-grade cloud deployments.
Centiro Solutions
Jul 20207 mosJan 2021

Pune, Maharashtra, India

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Education

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology

Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

20232 yrs2025

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering

D. Y. Patil Pratishthans D.Y. Patil College of Engineering ,Pune

20183 yrs2021

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Software Developer III @ Veeam | Cloud Data Protection || Ex-Veritas || Azure | AWS | OCI | Kubernetes | OpenGL

About

🚀 Cloud-Native Software Engineer | Disaster Recovery & Backup Solutions | AWS | Azure | OCI | Kubernetes | Python I'm a dedicated Software Engineer with 3+ years of specialized experience designing, building, and optimizing cloud-native backup, disaster recovery, and snapshot management systems. My expertise lies at the intersection of cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes orchestration, and microservices architecture—enabling me to deliver scalable, cost-effective, and resilient solutions across AWS, Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). My journey includes impactful roles at industry leaders like Veritas and Cohesity, where I successfully reduced cloud resource expenditures by up to 40%, improved backup performance by 50%, and significantly accelerated VM recovery processes. Skilled in Python, Kubernetes (EKS, AKS), AWS EBS Snapshots, and automated CI/CD workflows, I thrive when tackling complex infrastructure challenges and translating them into innovative, automated solutions. Driven by curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset, I consistently explore emerging technologies and industry best practices to enhance system reliability and efficiency. 💡 Key Strengths: - Designing scalable backup and disaster recovery systems - Optimizing cloud resource allocation and performance - Streamlining infrastructure through automation and DevOps principles - Building robust microservices and orchestrating seamless integrations 🔍 Currently eager to connect with fellow cloud infrastructure enthusiasts, innovators, and engineering teams who share a passion for leveraging technology to drive impactful outcomes. Let's collaborate to build the future of reliable, scalable cloud solutions!

Location

Pune Division

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Work experience

Software Developer 3 at Veeam Software, Sep 2025 - Present · 1 yr, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, - Designed a generic CSI-based backup framework by introducing a pluggable data-mover architecture, enabling the integration of Kopia and future backup engines without requiring framework redesign. - Enhanced platform portability by adding support for block storage, NFS, Azure Blob, GCS, and S3-compatible object stores, enabling consistent backup and recovery across hybrid-cloud Kubernetes deployments. - Built core microservices for Veeam Data Cloud’s Kubernetes Backup SaaS platform from the ground up, enabling scalable multi-tenant backup services and accelerating the delivery of cloud-native data protection capabilities. - Implemented Kasten-compatible backup and recovery workflows by designing Kubernetes-native orchestration services, improving customer migration flexibility and platform adoption. - Designed and implemented an Atlassian MCP skill that provides contextual access to Jira and Confluence data for LLM-based assistants, reducing effort in information retrieval and design document authoring.

Member of Technical Staff II at Cohesity, Dec 2024 - Sep 2025 · 10 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, - Led an architectural overhaul of NBSM’s job scheduling pipeline — diagnosed systemic concurrency and thread contention bottlenecks, restructured the multi-threaded execution model, and delivered a 50% throughput improvement that directly reduced customer SLA breach risk. - Implemented granular file-level recovery for OCI cloud snapshots by designing a targeted indexing mechanism, enabling precise file restoration and reducing recovery scope from full-volume to file-level - Developed parameterized backup and restore functionality for cloud VMs, supporting disk type renaming, network reconfiguration, and persistent network retention, ensuring flexible and disruption-free recovery

Software Engineer 2 at Veritas Technologies LLC, Apr 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos, Pune, Cloud Data Protection | Distributed Systems | AWS | OCI | Kubernetes - Optimized the deployment of NetBackup CloudScale, introducing efficient resource allocation strategies that reduced cloud costs by 15% and improved platform scalability by 20% across multi-tenant environments. - Led cross-functional efforts to deploy NetBackup Snapshot Manager (NBSM) on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, driving automation of enterprise-scale snapshot and restore workflows and unlocking a 300PB+ revenue opportunity. - Designed and implemented a fine-grained Single File Restore (SFR) mechanism from cloud snapshots by building an efficient indexing layer, cutting VM recovery times by 30% and enhancing user restore precision. - Drove the development of an application-consistent snapshot solution on AWS by integrating Amazon EBS Snapshots with AWS Systems Manager (SSM), enabling policy-driven backups and achieving a 25% reduction in RTO. - Enhanced the Kubernetes-native Data Orchestrator (Extension to the NBSM) by introducing service classification, state reconciliation, and input validation, strengthening system resilience, security posture, and safe deprovisioning processes. - Defined and delivered a robust, parameterized backup and recovery framework for cloud VMs, supporting dynamic disk/network configurations and persistent recovery settings, ensuring high availability and minimal disruption during failover scenarios.

Software Engineer 1 at Veritas Technologies LLC, Jul 2021 - Mar 2023 · 1 yr 9 mos, Pune District, Maharashtra, India, Kubernetes | Cloud-Native Backup | EKS & AKS | Multi-Tenant Systems - Engineered a Kubernetes-native Snapshot Manager supporting EKS and AKS, integrating NBSM, NetBackup, and MSDP-X with autoscaling and elasticity features, driving 40% reduction in cloud resource costs and 25% performance gains across backup workflows. - Designed and deployed a disk exclusion policy for cloud snapshots, yielding 20–40% storage cost savings and 15–30% faster snapshot creation times, enabling more efficient and scalable backup operations. - Built and enhanced a multi-tenant Data Orchestrator across AWS and Azure platforms, leveraging Helm charts, dynamic scaling, custom VNETs, and private links to support backup, snapshot, and deduplication workflows. Integrated NBU event logging, GUI-based log automation, and migrated to FluentBit for optimized telemetry and diagnostics. - Led initiatives to strengthen automation test frameworks, adding 20+ test cases and boosting code coverage by 10%, ensuring high reliability and resilience of mission-critical backup and snapshot components. - Delivered HA and disaster recovery enhancements through architectural improvements in orchestration logic, event-driven workflows, and scalable configuration management for enterprise-grade cloud deployments.

Software Intern at Centiro Solutions, Jul 2020 - Jan 2021 · 7 mos, Pune, Maharashtra, India

Education

Master of Technology - MTech, Information Technology, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, D. Y. Patil Pratishthans D.Y. Patil College of Engineering ,Pune