# Hemanth Thummala

> Senior Engineering Manager at Nutanix.

Location: Fremont, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hemanththummala

Senior engineer with significant system design, implementation  of transport and application layer protocols on Linux platforms. Having very good knowledge and working experience on File Access Protocols (SAMBA/CIFS, AFP, NFS, etc.) with strong debugging skills. Made very good contribution to Samba open source. Experienced in Unix kernel internals: Linux, FreeBSD, SuSE Linux; Languages: C++, C, shell. Tools: gdb, valgrind, ethereal,etc.

## Work Experience
### Senior Engineering Manager @ Nutanix
Jan 2023 – Present | United States

### Staff Engineer @ Nutanix
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### MTS @ Nutanix
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019
Working on Scale-out NAS product involving Samba.

### Software Engineer @ Panzura
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Campbell, California
Currently working on Samba(CIFS) stack implemented on Panzura cloud storage controller. Addressed lot of critical bug fixes in samba and did very contribution to open source samba. 
Implemented windows previous versions support using separate vfs module for panzura fs.
Having very good SMB/SMB2 protocol knowledge. 
Expertise in Active directory management components.

### Software Consultant @ Novell
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012

### Software Engineer @ Wipro Technologies
Jan 2005 – Jan 2007


## Education
### M.Tech in Computer Science
National Institute of Technology Warangal


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hemanththummala

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Last updated: 2026-04-12