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Veritas National Engineers’ Week 2018 Celebrated Engineer: Pradip Kulkarni

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We’ve an exceptional selection of engineers at Veritas, though there are some among the whole whose engineering prowess is exemplary; in celebration of #EWeek2018, we’d like to highlight six Veritas engineers who have helped to drive the success of our offerings and lend to the overarching sense of community that is a special part of working for Veritas. Today’s Veritas National Engineers’ Week 2018 Celebrated Engineer: Pradip Kulkarni.

Pradip and his team had the original idea, and completed the first POC of the Parallel Streaming Framework. This has been a big success with Veritas’ customer base in NetBackup 8.1, and highlights the strength in ideas coming from engineering innovations.

Pradip Kulkarni, @pradipmk, Distinguished Engineer in Data Protection and Governance EngineeringPradip Kulkarni, @pradipmk, Distinguished Engineer in Data Protection and Governance Engineering

When asked to define his role as an engineer at Veritas… I work as a Distinguished Engineer and lead a small team of senior technocrats who themselves are seasoned technical individuals with lot of industry experience. I code and direct advanced development projects in NBU organization. As part of my charter, I envisioned and conceptualized a technology called ‘Parallel Streaming Framework’ for NBU, to protect modern workloads such as NoSQL databases, hyper-converged infrastructures such as NUTANIX, Big data environments. PSF was prototyped by my team and eventually delivered as product in NBU 8.1. My team has prototyped and built several leading-edge technologies, including the initial VELOCITY stack on NBU backup images. Recently we worked on Cassandra backup/recovery solution on AWS. Stay tuned, for very exciting technology that is being prototyped and built to stay ahead of the innovation curve and beat existing and emerging competition.

I built the world’s first Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) technology for Veritas Volume Manager in 96/97. In 2002, I was chosen as one of the first four Veritas Distinguished Engineers. Soon after in 2004 I left to establish a startup company in the area of High Performance Computing HW/SW platform, based on Infiniband backplane. After 6 years of my startup adventure, I joined back in 2010 to establish advanced development team. Many of my team members have diverse experience from various leading companies in the world and each of my engineers inspire me every day with the kind of thoughts they bring on the table.

When asked what inspires him most as an engineer… Thought waves are cosmic and opportunities are endless. Realizing a thought and translating that to an idea, or meaningful solution, is easiest with software engineering than any other engineering field. My undergraduate program was in Electrical Engineering, and I know what it takes to build an EE prototype. Software Engineers around the world inspire me a lot and they have done a tremendous work creating open source, sharing their experience on the web. It’s a library of work from around the world at your fingertips is the most exciting part of software engineers.

When asked what he would choose if he could have a single engineering superpower… Although software is a research-friendly area, it has many limitations. One engineering superpower I would dream of is to translate the intent in the thought process to an externally perceived behavior. There are still some thoughts and ideas that are difficult to express in words, in PowerPoint or Word document. And as an idea moves from imagination to presentation and to discussion, a lot of its essence is lost. Sometimes the original idea is not perceived in the same way as it was thought out. The superpower tool would be able to translate an idea or a thought wave directly to an experience. We spend enormous time and energy describing it with modern tools, but still it does not have the same feeling, experience, context of when it goes out from mind to the external world. There is a need for developing these kinds of tools. We are still way behind in our tools of expression.

Please join us at #VeritasTechnologies in celebrating the engineers in your life, during #EWeek2018!