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Venkat Chilukuri

VMware | NetAPP | Leadership | Building New Teams | Observability | Telemetry | Monitoring | ESX | VCF9 | Systems | Storage | Networking | Devops | Private & Hybrid Cloud | Python | C/C++

Bengaluru

21+ years of work experience

DataCore Software
Jan 20269 mosPresent

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Broadcom
Nov 20231 yr 8 mosJun 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Vmware acquired by Broadcom.
VMware
Jun 20196 yrs 1 moJun 2025

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Delivering high quality Observability, Monitoring, Logging, Telemetry and other cloud infrastructure services at VMware virtualization operating system ESXi.
NetApp
Apr 20136 yrs 3 mosJun 2019

Bangalore, India

NetApp ONTAP releases for Platform Software/Firmware/BMC, Storage, HA-interconnect and Networking for Fabric attached and All flash storage servers.
NetApp
Sep 20084 yrs 8 mosApr 2013

Bangalore

Platform Software/Firmware, Storage Server Health monitoring, Hardware diagnostics in NetApp ONTAP release of All Flash and Fabric attached storage controllers.
Mindteck
Sep 20044 yrs 2 mosOct 2008

Bangalore

RAID and platform software/firmware automation for ONTAP 7 and 8

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Education

Master of Computer Applications - MCA

BIET, Davanagere

19993 yrs2002

BSc, Electronics

Veerasaiva College, Bellary

19963 yrs1999

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Headline

VMware | NetAPP | Leadership | Building New Teams | Observability | Telemetry | Monitoring | ESX | VCF9 | Systems | Storage | Networking | Devops | Private & Hybrid Cloud | Python | C/C++

About

Experienced Engineering Manager with a demonstrated history of building and leading high-performance teams in large-scale organizations. Expert in Observability, Telemetry, Monitoring, Virtualization, System Software/Firmware, and Storage Systems. Proven ability to drive the delivery of resilient, enterprise-grade OS virtualization infrastructure for ESXi OS across VMware Cloud Foundation releases. Additionally, led platform software, firmware, and storage/networking initiatives for All Flash and FAS controllers within NetApp ONTAP release cycles.

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude code

claude

gemini

github copilot

ollama

ChatGPT

Work experience

Senior Manager at DataCore Software, Jan 2026 - Present · 9 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Engineering Manager at Broadcom, Nov 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Vmware acquired by Broadcom.

Engineering Manager at VMware, Jun 2019 - Jun 2025 · 6 yrs 1 mo, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Delivering high quality Observability, Monitoring, Logging, Telemetry and other cloud infrastructure services at VMware virtualization operating system ESXi.

Engineering Manager at NetApp, Apr 2013 - Jun 2019 · 6 yrs 3 mos, Bangalore, India, NetApp ONTAP releases for Platform Software/Firmware/BMC, Storage, HA-interconnect and Networking for Fabric attached and All flash storage servers.

Member of Technical Staff at NetApp, Sep 2008 - Apr 2013 · 4 yrs 8 mos, Bangalore, Platform Software/Firmware, Storage Server Health monitoring, Hardware diagnostics in NetApp ONTAP release of All Flash and Fabric attached storage controllers.

Senior Software Engineer at Mindteck, Sep 2004 - Oct 2008 · 4 yrs 2 mos, Bangalore, RAID and platform software/firmware automation for ONTAP 7 and 8

Education

Master of Computer Applications - MCA, BIET, Davanagere

BSc, Electronics, Veerasaiva College, Bellary

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