User:Sundara Nagarajan

Sundara Nagarajan ("SN") is currently Technical Director, Data Center Solutions Group at NetApp. His current area of work concerns solutions for application-aware data management and protection. Previously he was Director and Distinguished Technologist in Enterprise Server, Storage and Networking Division of Hewlett-Packard Company. Prior to joining HP, he held positions at Wipro, Philips, and entrepreneurial start-ups. He also did assignments at Intel, Tandem (now part of HP) and Xerox Corporation.

SN is an IT product R&D executive with about 31 years of experience in systems software for products—computer systems, operating systems internals and embedded systems. He held various leadership positions in start-up, small and large companies; performed operational and strategic roles; well experienced with overall responsibility for all aspects of product architecture, development, life cycle management, innovation management, program/project management and organization development.

SN has a graduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calicut and M.S. (By Research) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India. He is a Certified ScrumMaster, Senior Member of the IEEE, Member of the ACM and Member of USENIX.

He serves as a Visiting Professor at International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore.