# Manjunath AppajiGowda

> Principal Software Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/manjunathappajigowda

Versatile Staff Storage Systems Engineer with over 15+ years of cross-functional leadership in implementation, validation, and deployment of large complex systems. Well-versed in large-scale deployments, migrations, and data storage solutions. Developing tools to manage petabyte storage infrastructure

Languages: Python, Perl, Flask, Auto IT, Batch Scripting, PowerShell
Orchestration tools: Terraform, Ansible
DataBase: MySql, Cassandra , Elastic Search
AWS Landscape: SOCA, VPC, EC2, EBS, S3, EFS, Lustre, VPC.
GCP Landscape: Compute Engine, ELFS, File Store, VPC Networks
Operating Systems: Unix/Linux, Solaris, Win*
Tools: ELK, Grafana, Prometheus, Dockers
Technologies: RDBMS, WAFL, ONTAP, NAS, HTTP
Interests: Automation, System Programming, Hacking
Monitoring Tools: Nagios, OCUM
Schedulers: UGE, Platform LSF

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2026 – Present | Santa Clara, California, United States

### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ NVIDIA
Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Clara County, California, United States

### Staff Storage Systems Engineer @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
•	Developed scalable and fault-tolerant REST API service to manage storage services, API service provides functionality like volume management and quota management.
this service enables end-users, self-service model, to allocate/resize/destroy volume ondemand and reserve user quota without infra team intervention. this improves operational efficiency and enables a cloud-based storage provision model in on-prem
•	Implemented The Scale-Out Computing on AWS solution and customized cloud formation template and wrapper scripts as per the Synopsys env standard.
•	Deployed and manage an Elastifile Cloud File System (ECFS) cluster on Google Cloud with Terraform, this helps in faster cluster deployment on cloud and scale data nodes as the demand arrives.
•	Implemented data sync methodology from on-prem to the cloud using open source sync tools, this solution enabled R@D users to copy the data on demand, it improves operational efficiency and accelerated development process.

### Sr Storage Systems Engineer @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2012 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
•	Responsible for managing more than 60+PB of data as a senior member of the Enterprise Storage and Data Protection team
•	Developed a Data Collection Framework to collect multi-vendor storage inventory and disk-level performance stats, this helps in planning, storage growth trend analysis, and disk performance analysis for the business leaders.
•	Developed an Autodeletion tool and policy to clear huge data.
•	Developed multithreaded Command based utility to archive files from NFS to object storage using S3, the solution to move nearly 2PB data, saved over $2M in cost.

### System Engineer @ Synopsys Inc
Jan 2006 – Jan 2012 | Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India
•	Develop system architecture to support and improve business operations
•	Collaborated with the Development team to determine the need and devise appropriate software and hardware solutions.
•	Worked as a key resource to architect, engineer, and support over Windows engineering infra implementation projects.
•	Designed and implemented Citrix access gateways
•	Automated Windows-based OS auto installation Procedure, the procedure includes creating an auto partition, changing hostname, adding to a domain, auto Installation of some standard software, auto IP change

### System admin @ Zenith Software
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006 | Bangalore


## Education
### MS in Computer Sceince
Manipal Academy of Higher Education

### B.E in Telecommunication
kalpataru institute of technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/manjunath-appajigowda-280b3735

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Last updated: 2026-04-12