About

Prakash Narayanasamy is a highly skilled software engineer with over 20 years of experience in the industry. He has extensive knowledge in various aspects of software development, including proposing, designing, developing, supporting, and maintaining software for a wide range of users and use cases. During the first decade of his career, Prakash focused on developing and supporting software systems for engineering and business-critical enterprise applications. In the second decade, he specialized in software-defined data center infrastructure, starting with managing software-defined storage, enabling hyper-converged storage for various hypervisors, developing and supporting business continuity and disaster recovery features, and leading backup ecosystem partnerships and integrations. Currently, Prakash is a Senior Staff Engineer at Nutanix, where he has worked for the past 11 years. His work at Nutanix has spanned a wide range of projects, from manageability of Nutanix clusters to backups, business continuity, and disaster recovery of workload running on these clusters. He is currently focused on making Nutanix's Acropolis a delightful platform for DevOps by reimagining storage and data management services for container-native workload. Prakash's educational background includes a Master of Engineering in Computer Science from the National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, and a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering from Bharathidasan University. His technical skills include software engineering, DevOps, and infrastructure, and he has relevant experience of 20.79 years. In addition to his current position at Nutanix, Prakash has also worked as a Technology Specialist at Honeywell, where he developed software for various Honeywell business units. Prakash is a highly motivated and skilled software engineer who has a proven track record of delivering high-quality software solutions. His ability to propose, design, and develop software for a wide range of users and use cases makes him a valuable asset to any organization.