Vamsi Gunturu

Senior Vice President of Engineering @ Yugabyte

About

Vamsi is a technology leader with extensive experience building a market leading product and hyper-growth business of $1B+, and has a proven track record of creating and growing high performance teams. He is passionate about technology and has a deep understanding of the enterprise market and cutting edge technologies. He has deep expertise in high performance storage systems both on-prem and in the cloud, large scale distributed systems and AI/ML.

Country

United States

City

Cupertino

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Site Reliability Engineering, Technology Leadership, Product Development, Team Building, Cross-functional Coordination, Cross Functional Relationships, Backup & Recovery Systems, Cross-functional Team Leadership, Embedded Software, Network-Attached Storage (NAS), Fibre Channel Protocol, Kernel Drivers, Linux Kernel, Fibre Channel, SCSI, Supervised Learning, Cloud Applications, Organizational Leadership, Machine Learning, Computer Science

Experience

Senior Vice President of Engineering

Yugabyte

2025-12 - Present · 9 mos

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Head of engineering for all Yugabyte DB, control plane engineering and SRE.

VP of Engineering

Aurora

2022-12 - 2024-11 · 2 yrs

Mountain View, California, United States

In my role as VP of Engineering at Aurora, I lead the Platform Software and Services organization, overseeing the development and deployment of on-vehicle s/w platform for autonomous driving in the trucking and ride-hailing markets. My responsibilities include optimizing deep learning ML models, ensuring efficient communication between sensors and software, and enhancing cloud-based services for vehicle dispatch, remote assistance, troubleshooting.

Vice President of Engineering

VMware

2022-8 - 2022-12 · 5 mos

Palo Alto, California, United States

Was the Head of engineering for vSAN of 250+ engineers for 7 years with teams in India, China, Bulgaria and the US. Built an industry leading HCI storage solution with over $1B in revenue. Shipped over 16 major releases during the time and lots of other minor and patch releases. Involved in all aspects of engineering - people, process, and market/requirements and technology including architecture, design. vSAN was the fastest growing product in VMware. Introduced the architectural idea and led the team to deliver vSAN ESA which is a re-architecture of the original vSAN file system to make it future proof. Achieved : - 3x higher performance - 4x better storage efficiency - 2x lower CPU cost per IOP - 100x faster snapshot operations.

Senior Director Of Engineering

VMware

2016-7 - 2022-8 · 6 yrs 2 mos

Palo Alto, California, United States

Director Of Engineering

VMware

2014-7 - 2016-7 · 2 yrs 1 mo

Palo Alto, California, United States

Sr. Manager

VMware

2011-6 - 2014-7 · 3 yrs 2 mos

Palo Alto

Engineering Manager

NetApp

2009-10 - 2011-6 · 1 yr 9 mos

- responsible for replication, snapshot and inode parts of WAFL. - ramped up a new team for a part of WAFL replication and delivered several new enhancements to the volume move and volume copy features, - delivered snapshot scale and several usability improvements - evaluation and prototype for scaling indoes to beyond 2 Billion.

Technical Manager

NetApp

2006-10 - 2009-9 · 3 yrs

Tech lead and manager for the Kernel / device driver team for the VTL product. - Architected/designed/implemented several features include RAID6 support - Cross functional leadership for VTL product and NetApp disk drives, enclosures and h/w acceleration teams. - Led the definition of an FPGA that accelerated hash generation, SHA-256 and GZIP compression, and drove the development of both the hardware and software.

Software Engineer

Brocade

2006-3 - 2006-10 · 8 mos

Designed and development of FC-iSCSI gateway blade s/w.

Staff Software Engineer

AppliedMicro

2001-7 - 2006-2 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Tech lead for Solaris Device Drivers for Fibre Channel HBAs. Built and enhance Linux Support Packages / Board Support Packages for the AMCC PowerPC line.