About

Adarsh Antony is a seasoned Senior Engineering Manager at Cisco with over 18 years of experience leading product conception, roadmap, architecture, and development across multiple products. He has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut. Adarsh has a track record of building, growing, leading, and inspiring high-performance and self-sustaining teams that deliver innovative features to the market with agility and at scale. Adarsh's deep proficiency lies in Cloud architecture, Distributed software architecture, Server Management Solutions, Rack and Blade Server Firmware Management. He has 7 years of experience in this field and has achieved high success rates (96-98%) for the features, continually raising the bar on functionality, usability, and simplicity. He has also conceived and delivered innovations to address customer pain points & quality and continuously improved processes to harden engineering practices and improve team collaboration with PMs, Escalation teams. Adarsh's technical ownership of Firmware management and RBAC aspects of Cisco's game-changing cloud operations platform (Intersight) has been a major accomplishment. He is currently leading Cisco Intersight, which is Cisco's new game-changing SaaS platform with Micro Services architecture that is horizontally scalable & highly available. It provides Management as a service for UCS devices, including UCS Manager domains, and standalone UCS Servers. Adarsh has previously worked as a Software Engineering Manager & Technical Lead at Cisco, where he was working on the UCS product line. He has expertise in areas of policy design and software-defined infrastructure and preserving statelessness of the servers & chassis. He has designed multiple features from scratch on firmware and storage management in UCS. Adarsh has also worked as a Technical Lead for SnapDrive for UNIX product at NetApp, where he worked through multiple releases spanning all cycles of software development through close interactions with product management and global support. Adarsh's technical skills include Micro-service architecture, Distributed systems, Docker, Kubernetes, RabbitMQ, Kafka, MongoDB, Cassandra, Netflix conductor, Redis, AWS, Server Architecture, Hashicorp Vault, Manageability solutions, and Data Center Management solutions. He is a senior software engineer, infra, microservices, AWS, Redis, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes, Docker, MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, product manager, and software engineer. Adarsh has 20.70 years of relevant experience.