About

Ranga Sankar is a highly experienced technical leader with over 20 years of experience in software engineering. He has a proven ability to architect, debug complex issues, influence business and technology direction, develop product strategy, and handle challenging customer situations. He is customer-focused with strong debugging skills and is highly driven. He is comfortable dealing with ambiguity, challenging customer situations, and can manage multiple projects concurrently. Ranga has strong communication skills and is a subject matter expert, having presented at industry conferences. He has experience in shipping top-class products and can work with cross-functional teams as well as with partners and their engineers at the highest level. He has built, managed, and provided leadership to offshore teams across different geographies during his stints at various companies. Ranga has sponsored, guided, and mentored graduate students as part of Industry Academia Partnership in fostering innovation in new technologies. He has experience working closely with top-notch universities in emerging technologies with an intent to integrate, improve, and simplify existing product offerings. Ranga's specialties include Azure Cloud, Azure Service Bus, RabbitMQ, .Net Core, .Net Framework, Windows and Unix Storage, MPIO (Multi-pathing), Host Clustering (WFC), Enterprise Storage, Cloud fabrics, Storage Provisioning and Management, Kernel programming and debugging, Distributed File Systems, Virtualization (Hyper-V), SAN Protocols (iSCSI, FC, and FCoE), Docker Containers, Big Data Technologies- MongoDB, Cassandra, Kafka, Spark Streaming, Hadoop, AI, ML, DL, TensorFlow. Currently, Ranga is a Lead Software Development Engineer - Cloud Engineering at Relativity, where he designs and delivers a distributed, scalable, highly available, cloud-native enterprise storage solution for unstructured data in Azure using an ADLS (Azure Data Lake Gen 2 Storage) backend, ANF (Azure NetApp Files) as cache, and a FUSE-based filesystem on the front. In the past, Ranga has worked at NetApp, RTP, North Carolina, where he led the Secure Development Lifecycle (SDL) Validation across ONTAP SAN Arrays. He also worked with an external partner (RCP- Robin Cloud Platform) to make sure their Cloud/Kubernetes Container style offering integrated well with ONTAP using ONTAP APIs. Ranga has also worked at NCR Corporation, Columbia, South Carolina, where he was a software engineer and was responsible for porting Sun Solaris to Intel based NCR World