About

Diwakar Prabhakaran is an accomplished engineering leader with over 22 years of experience in the industry. He is currently serving as the Director of Engineering at Rubrik, Inc. where he is responsible for building a next-generation DB protection platform and services. Diwakar is highly passionate about building strong teams from scratch that can create enterprise-grade products with engineering excellence and customer focus mindset. Throughout his career, Diwakar has gained extensive experience in scalable enterprise systems, microservices, product development, research and innovation, and customer support. He has successfully executed and delivered products in various domains, including data protection, identity, directory, virtual desktop interface (VDI) integration, data center cost insights, retail, health insurance, and demand chain management. Diwakar has worked on various types of product development, including v1.0 product development, rearchitecting complex SaaS/on-premise products, and complex technology stack migration. Diwakar is a technical-savvy leader who actively encourages his team to participate in innovation programs and events. His leadership has resulted in successful ideas that have been productized and delivered to customers. He has a strong track record of delivering high-quality products and establishing trust within the team and stakeholders, including product management, architects, senior management, and release management. Diwakar has ten years of leadership experience with a proven ability to build and manage teams that can conceptualize, architect, build, and run/support enterprise-class cloud and on-premise products. He specializes in product development and deployment, product architecture and design, technology integration, SaaS products, microservices, DevOps, resource management, product release management, team building, training and development, and focal planning. Diwakar holds a Master of Science degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, and a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Madras. He has also worked in senior engineering manager and advisory system analyst roles at VMware and IBM, respectively. Diwakar possesses a strong technical background and is proficient in various technologies, including senior software engineering, microservices, integration, product management, research scientist, NoSQL, and DevOps. Overall, Diwakar has 20.79 years of relevant experience and is an asset to any organization.