About

Nachiket Athavale is a highly skilled engineering manager with 19 years of experience in management, leadership, and technical fields. He has expertise in software quality assurance, storage technologies, development, and infrastructure management. Nachiket has a strong knowledge and experience in various SDLC methodologies as well as infrastructure management processes. He is skilled at driving process improvements, efficiency, and effectiveness improvements. Nachiket is experienced in designing, driving, and delivering web-based tools and applications. As a director of R&D at VMware Carbon Black, Nachiket leads the team in developing innovative solutions for the company's products. He has extensive management skills that involve building, leading, and motivating cross-functional teams. Nachiket is experienced in working with geographically distributed teams and vendors. He specializes in management, storage virtualization, Veritas Storage Foundation and HA, Oracle Database Administration, Oracle Apps, Basic UNIX Administration, Quality Assurance, Automation, SDLC, Agile, and LEAN. Before joining VMware, Nachiket worked as a senior manager at Dell and Symantec. At Symantec, he managed a team of 25+ people responsible for Quality Assurance of Veritas File System, Cluster File System, Symantec Virtual Store, and Veritas File Replicator products on all Unix and Linux flavors. Nachiket was involved in defining quality metrics and driving the automation of metrics tracking and reporting. He managed the transition from the waterfall model to Agile development model (Scrum) and attained one of the highest team-level Employee Net Promoter Scores (ENPS) within the BU in the latest survey. Nachiket holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the College of Engineering Pune and an M. Tech. degree in Software Systems from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani. He is proficient in QA, infra, Web, Senior Software Engineer, and test tech stack. With a relevant experience of 20.79 years, Nachiket is a highly skilled and experienced professional in the field of engineering management.