---
title: "Venkat Chilukuri - Senior Manager in Bengaluru | Tal"
description: "Meet Venkat Chilukuri, VMware | NetAPP | Leadership | Building New Teams | Observability | Telemetry | Monitoring | ESX | VCF9 | Systems | Storage | Networking | Devops | Private & Hybrid Cloud | Python | C/C++ based in Bengaluru. AI stack includes claude code, claude, and gemini."
image: "https://tal.club/meet/venkat-chilukuri/share-image"
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# Venkat Chilukuri on Tal

## 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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