About

Rajeev Mankar is a Professional Services Leader at Cohesity with over 20 years of relevant experience in the field. He has worked his way up from a Technical Support role to become a trusted adviser for Fortune 100 companies, handling technical escalations and infrastructure issues. Currently, as a Technical Manager, he architects and implements technical infrastructures to ensure data protection, disaster recovery, and storage optimization. Rajeev's role involves managing technical processes and teams while also utilizing his technical skills to provide the necessary environment for project success. He has extensive experience in architecting backup designs based on internal customer requirements for integration and acquisitions. He evaluates and implements new Backup and Recovery storage hardware and software technologies, drives long-range road mapping, and ensures consistency with business objectives for resiliency, disaster tolerance, and regulatory compliance. Rajeev works directly with the global Data Protection Lead and establishes operating mechanisms for weekly communication, strategy, and problem & resolution management. He provides operational project level management in the planning, design, and implementation for hardware/software lease refreshes, migrations, and new site acquisitions of data protection systems. He leads Data Protection Capacity Planning and trending and implements plans to address capacity needs. Rajeev also automates the delivery of backup solutions and provides L4 support to L2 and L3 support teams. Rajeev has worked with top companies in the industry, including Commvault and Symantec, where he held senior positions. At Commvault, he served as Sr. Product Manager, handling Data Insights and augmented Analytics, Data Protection, AI/ML, Predictive Insights, Information Governance, eDiscovery, Data compliance, regulations and standards, Storage, Backup, Disaster Recovery, High availability and Resilience, Replication, Cloud (Hybrid and Public) Technologies, Enterprise Architecture, Managed Services, and support. At Symantec, he served as Sr. Principal Business Critical Engineer, where he was the Tech Lead and responsible for providing technical solutions to the Business Critical Customers who were using their Backup and archiving solutions. Rajeev has an impressive education background with a PGDBA (from MIT Sloan, Columbia Business School & Tuck At Dartmouth) in Business Administration and Management, General, a Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science from MAHE, and a degree from SJHS. He is proficient in a wide range of technologies, including Senior Software Engineering, Product Management, AI, ML, Integration