Pavan Patharde

NetApp India Pvt Ltd · Bangalore, India

• Architected and delivered the platform architecture for NetApp Console Local (NCL), including AI-assisted sizing at VM and container level, cutting solution-scale effort from roughly 2 months to 2-3 weeks.
• Led architecture for the next-generation NetApp Console Agent, including the technology roadmap with product management from concept through launch, high-availability and scale constructs for the control plane, and cross-functional delivery of packaging constructs (including OVA).
• Mentored engineers on system design and coding standards; led patent mining and filings for the team.

NetApp India Pvt Ltd · Bangalore, India

• Led platform design, implementation, and deployment of the next-generation OTV VASA Provider (OVA-bundled), scaling OTV to an industry-first 150k+ vVols.
• Led design for VASA Specification 5, enabling VMware vVol+ certification.
• Architected NVMe and Fibre Channel protocol support within OTV.
• Led platform design and implementation for Astra VMware plugin and ADS VASA provider; designed and delivered the ONTAP Tools Manager backend.
• Designed a Kubernetes-based HCI management node and a Docker Swarm to Kubernetes migration path that cut the release cycle from three months to a biweekly cadence.
• Designed end-to-end observability for OTV, including customer adoption metrics ingestion into AutoSupport (ASUP).
• Built polyglot microservices (Go, Spring Boot, Python/Flask) and Kubernetes operators via Operator SDK for component deployment.
• Contributed open-source fixes to Bitnami MongoDB Helm charts; mentored engineers and filed patent applications for platform innovations.

VMware India Pvt Ltd · Bangalore, India

• Designed and developed microservice-based internal tools, services, and applications that saved approximately $18M per year.
• Built Hardware-as-a-Service capabilities to manage enterprise assets (servers, switches, storage).
• Operated and extended an internal Kubernetes-based container cloud; delivered features for the internal CI/CD and on-demand apps platform (Jenkins, SonarQube).

Lava International · Bangalore, India

• Led backend engineering for tools, integrations, and custom product requirements that generated nearly $1M per year in revenue.
• Built recommendation and messaging systems for Android launcher and theme-store apps; developed REST APIs for mobile clients.
• Delivered user-behavior analysis and persona scoring pipelines on AWS (Redshift, data pipelines).

Intacct Corporation · Bangalore, India

• Designed and built sales-organization applications and third-party integrations that improved lead-to-customer conversion for a SaaS financial platform.
• Delivered features on a proprietary PHP stack with MySQL and responsive web UIs.

Tata Consultancy Services · Bangalore, India

• Designed a customer service management application that improved customer satisfaction by 20%.
• Built and deployed the application on Azure using CodeIgniter, MySQL, and REST services.