# Debasish Garai > Cohesity, Founding Engineer, ex-Data Domain, ex-Veritas Location: Santa Clara, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/debasish Having 14+ years of experience in software industry, with strong analytical, design and development skills. Developed Long Term Retention to Cloud solution which increased the product revenues by 10% ($ in millions) . Got the best Rookie Inventor award for having filed patents in the very first year of joining Symantec. My mission : Always ask, "What is in it for my user ? ", where user is a peer, an executive or a real time customer. Sound knowledge of Storage, Clustering solution, Virtual Business service, Networking protocols and Gateway. Keen to explore more ! ## Work Experience ### Engineering Leader @ Cohesity Jan 2025 – Present | San Jose, California, United States ### Founding Engineer @ Stealth Mode Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States ### Director of Engineering @ Cohesity Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States ### Engineering Manager @ Cohesity Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Staff Software Engineer @ Cohesity Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose, California ### Principal Software Engineer @ Dell Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Developed the cloud layer for doing Long Term retention to cloud for multiple providers. Redesign the backup algorithm and throttling mechanism to reduce customer escalation. Re wrote the cloud configuration management to file based configuration for faster development of new providers. A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for backup operations. A read request is received for a data segment at a deduplicated storage system. The data segment is determined not to be in a data cache on the deduplicated storage system. A data segment reference for the data segment is determined to be in a data segment reference cache on the deduplicated storage system. The data segment is read from a persistent storage using the data segment reference. Participated in the Hackathon and implemented the cost analysis and benefit of using Data Domain box for doing Long Term retention. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Symantec Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Pune Area, India Involved in developing the Virtual Business Disaster Recovery Solution for the Virtual Business Service. ● Developed code for avoiding Single Point of failure in Virtual Business Service Solution and a mechanism to interact with different tiers. ● Participated in “VCS Innovation and ideas”, got selected to be part of next generation VCS​ features. ● Responsible for integration of the product with other teams and solely handled Unit Testing​ for the modules owned ### Team Lead @ 2wire Jan 2006 – Jan 2011 | Pace (Previously called Kenati Technologies) • Worked as a Technical Leader in the Gateway Solution team, leading a team of 10 people which develops the core of the gateway. • Involved in Requirement gathering, creating the Engineering Response Document and being the architect of the product. • Involved in handling and developing multiple modules across the product. • Developed IGMPv3 for the gateway solution. • Involved in handling functional & technical bugs. • Responsible for performing Unit Testing for the modules owned ### Member of Technical Staff @ Proware India Corp., Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Pune Area, India • Core technical member of the team to create the Raid Controller in embedded system. • Developed the Target Emulator. ### Associate Software Engineer @ Symantec Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 • Worked as Associate Software Engineer to create test cases and automate those test cases. • Developed various integration testing of the various product of VERITAS. ## Education ### Master of Computer Applications (MCA) in Computer Engineering National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli ### Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Physics Delhi University ### High School in Science Delhi Public School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/debasish-garai-7579784 --- Source: https://flows.cv/debasish JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/debasish/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05