Ganesh Petkar

Versatile technology leader with extensive experience spanning software development, product delivery, and organizational leadership.

Background includes significant contributions as an individual contributor in the U.S., complemented by early career experience as an electronics engineer in the manufacturing industry. Skilled in building and scaling high performing teams, driving product innovation, and leading customer success initiatives across cloud, SaaS, and on prem platforms. Adept at managing complex projects, guiding teams through major transformations, and fostering engagement through transparent communication and effective people management.

Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at Cohesity (as a part of Veritas acquisition) (2025-04 – 2026-08)

Lead team of around 15 developers to deliver features and capabilities for M365 workload support along with people management involving performance management, individual growth and AI based development.

• Shipped various features that helped with improved fidelity for SPO support to 80%, shipping for both cloud and on-prem platforms in unified release for M365 workload with an active customers of around 2000
• Led customer escalations to ensure that they are delivered as per commitment, improving escalation resolution time by 10%, managing 10-15 customer escalations monthly
• Led AI-based development and automation efforts to improve development productivity by 3 times and automation by 2 times

Sr. Development Manager at Veritas Technologies (2021-02 – 2025-03)

Lead multiple scrum teams to deliver SaaS based workload support that would cater to SMB and enterprise segment. Leads engineering teams by balancing people management, project delivery, and technical strategy. Responsible for hiring talent, mentoring engineers and fostering a productive team culture while overseeing the entire software development lifecycle using Agile methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time. Serve as a critical bridge between technical teams and exec leadership.

• Grew development organization from 5 developers to 24 developers
• Led focused quality improvement initiatives to reduce SPO stubbing customer escalations by 90% and PE by 50% with a clear roadmap to reduce the PE escalations by 80%, with an active customer count of around 150
• Led focused quality improvement initiatives to reduce transient errors in SPO, Exchange and OneDrive by 80% across top 25% customers
• Supervised the delivery of v1.0 Salesforce workload support on the ASP platform that helped achieve 79% CAGR across SaaS business where M365 and Salesforce being key workloads, supporting 90% of ASP customers

Sr. Development Manager at Veritas Technologies (2020-01 – 2022-09)

Lead multiple scrum teams to deliver SaaS based workload support that would cater to SMB and enterprise segment.Responsible for hiring talent, mentoring engineers and fostering a productive team culture while overseeing the entire software development lifecycle using Agile methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time. Serve a critical bridge between technical teams and exec leadership.

• Delivered the first SaaS based workload support component for Exchange and OneDrive, which Backup Exec consumed to deliver M365 support helping retain 10K+ Backup Exec customers
• Built a new team of around 10 developers by hiring them virtually and keeping them engaged with 0% attrition in ~ 2 years

Sr. Development Manager at Veritas Technologies (formerly a part of Symantec) (2014-01 – 2020-12)

Lead various teams of size ranging up to 29 engineers to deliver features and capabilities for Backup Exec. Act as a feature team lead for SDR team, dev lead for Backup Exec releases, lead for beta programme, agile transformation, people management including, hiring, performance management, developing individuals, and appraisals.

• Built the most engaged team of 8-10 developers within Backup Exec Pune teams by following proper people management practices, resulting in ~ 5% higher engagement level
• Led transformation from waterfall to agile across two scrum teams that helped reduce the overall release time by 60%
• Led various teams of size 15 to 29 dev through several transitions, by promoting open and transparent communication and providing continuous support, which successfully kept attrition below 10%, under the company average

Sr. Development Manager at Symantec Corporation (2011-06 – 2013-12)

Lead a team of ~8 developers to deliver capabilities for Backup Exec that would enable MSP to manage it remotely. Responsibility included, delivering features, leading beta programme, conducting daily scrum meetings, reporting progress to leadership and people management.

• Directed the first version of the Backup Exec plug-in for the Kaseya platform enabling 25-30% Backup Exec market capitalization across 10K+ customers

Development Manager at Symantec Corporation (2009-05 – 2012-06)

As a development manager, responsible for adding enhancements to pcAnywhere and pcAnywhere solution, customer escalation management and people management including performance management and growth of team members.

• Improved the perception of product quality even after the team was downsized to less than half along with adding minor features and platform support improving stakeholder confidence by 80%
• Architected the integration of pcAnywhere with the Altiris platform that helps streamline IT administrators' management of endpoint devices via a central console reducing the IT efforts by 30% across 50K devices

Principal Software Engineer at Symantec Corporation (2006-08 – 2009-05)

Senior Software Specialist/Consultant at Patni/iPass (2005-08 – 2006-08)

Programmer Analyst/Consultant at HCL TA / KLA-Tencor (2001-07 – 2005-08)

Programmer Analyst/Consultant at HCL TA/KLA-Tencor (2001-02 – 2001-06)

Programmer Analyst/Consultant at HCL TA /First USA (2000-04 – 2001-01)

Software Engineer at Concept Integrations (I) Pvt. Ltd (1998-12 – 2000-01)

Electronics Engineer at PMT MTAL (1995-10 – 1998-01)

Diploma in Advance Computing – CDAC, ACTS, Bangalore, India

Bachelor of Engineering in Industrial Electronics – Bharati Vidyapeeth's College of Engineering, Pune India

Diploma in Industrial Electronics – Bharati Vidyapeeth's Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Technology, Pune India