Hari Mankude is a seasoned engineering executive with over 20 years of experience under his belt, specializing in delivering market-leading enterprise software products. Throughout his career, Mankude has managed global engineering teams of over 100 engineers and holds over 10 patents.

Mankude has held leadership positions at a variety of industry-leading enterprises, such as HP, Oracle, and 3PAR. He has also been the founder, Chief Technology Officer, and VP of Engineering at Imanis Data, a startup with more than $25 million in VC funding and several Fortune 100 customers.

Mankude has a deep domain expertise in big data, cloud architectures, filesystems, and SAN based storage. He studied MS Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara and completed his Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering at the National Institute of Technology Karnataka.

Currently, Mankude is the Distinguished Data Architect at BFA Industries and has previously held positions such as Distinguished Engineer, Data Architecture at Walmart Labs, Software Engineer at Hortonworks, Distinguished Technologist at HPE (3PAR), and Senior Staff Software Engineer at 3PAR.

In summary, Hari Mankude is a highly experienced engineering executive with deep domain expertise in big data and cloud architectures and has had a successful career at various industry-leading enterprises.