Mahantesh Hugar is an experienced Site Reliability Engineer and Technical Lead at Cohesity since November 2017. Prior to this role, Mahantesh worked as a System Software Engineer at Cisco from April 2013 to November 2017, focusing on qualifying Cisco UCS x86 servers and VIC device drivers with EMC Storage arrays on Linux and VMware ESXi operating systems. Early career experience includes a Software Engineer position at Mphasis, where work was centered on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SLES. Mahantesh specializes in hardware including HP ProLiant Servers and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics & Communication from St Xaviers High School Belgaum.