10 Rubrik engineering leaders
Santosh Rau, VP Engineering, Product Infrastructure at Rubrik, heads this list of Rubrik engineering leaders, which also includes vice presidents, senior directors and directors of engineering for AI, developer platform and product security who hold their roles today. A reader can learn how engineering leaders work at Rubrik from people who have held the role.
Professionals to explore
Adam Gee
LinkedInExperience: Rubrik Fellow/VP of Engineering · Rubrik
Adam Gee has been Rubrik Fellow/VP of Engineering at Rubrik since September 2020, based in San Francisco, and says they lead Rubrik's Secure Data Platform for Generative AI, called Annapurna. Adam Gee was Distinguished Engineer at Rubrik from 2019 to 2020 and Director Of Engineering at Rubrik from 2014 to 2019, and describes working at Rubrik as a founding engineer building the distributed file system called Atlas.
Diwakar Prabhakaran
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Rubrik
Diwakar Prabhakaran has been Senior Director of Engineering at Rubrik since May 2025, based in Bengaluru, and was Director of Engineering at Rubrik from 2020 to 2025. Diwakar Prabhakaran was Senior Engineering Manager at VMware from 2016 to 2020 and Engineering Manager at VMware from 2013 to 2016.
Girish Pujari
LinkedInExperience: Sr Director, Engineering · Rubrik
Girish Pujari has been Sr Director, Engineering at Rubrik since July 2019, a role the profile places in Palo Alto, with a headline that names cyber resilience, cloud data protection and distributed systems. Girish Pujari was Director Engineering at Veritas Technologies LLC from 2017 to 2019 and Director Engineering at Symantec from 2012 to 2016.
Hardik Patel
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Rubrik
Hardik Patel has been Director of Engineering at Rubrik since May 2026, based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a headline that reads Engineering Director - Developer Platform. Hardik Patel was Sr Engineering Manager (Software) at Rubrik from 2020 to 2026 and Software Engineering Manager there from 2019 to 2020.
Ramya Thulasingam
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Rubrik
Ramya Thulasingam has been Director of Engineering at Rubrik since March 2024, based in Fremont, California, with a headline that names cyber resilience for SaaS and AI. Ramya Thulasingam was Senior Engineering Manager at Rubrik from 2021 to 2024 and Engineering Manager at Palo Alto Networks from 2016 to 2019.
Rupa Santosh
LinkedInExperience: VP Engineering · Rubrik
Rupa Santosh has been VP Engineering at Rubrik since April 2024, based in Bengaluru, and was Senior Director Engineering at Rubrik from 2020 to 2024. Rupa Santosh was Senior Director Software Engineering at NetApp from 2019 to 2020 and Head of R&D, Site Head of Nokia Bangalore at Nokia from 2007 to 2019.
Santosh Rau
LinkedInExperience: VP Engineering, Product Infrastructure · Rubrik
Santosh Rau has been VP Engineering, Product Infrastructure at Rubrik since October 2017, a role the profile places in Palo Alto, California. Santosh Rau describes the role as supporting Rubrik's engineering leaders and the company's core technical infrastructure team.
Shrihari Kalkar
LinkedInExperience: Director of Engineering · Rubrik
Shrihari Kalkar has been Director of Engineering at Rubrik since April 2025, based in Bengaluru, with a headline that names Product Security. Shrihari Kalkar was Sr. Engineering Manager at Rubrik from 2021 to 2025, Engineering Manager there from 2020 to 2021 and Senior Software Engineer there from 2018 to 2020.
Sony Manuel
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering · Rubrik
Sony Manuel has been Senior Director of Engineering at Rubrik since April 2024, based in Bengaluru, and describes the work as Developer Platform Leader and Product Manager at Rubrik India. Sony Manuel was Director Of Engineering at Rubrik from 2019 to 2024 and Software Development Director at Oracle from 2015 to 2019.
Travis Addair
LinkedInExperience: Senior Director of Engineering, AI · Rubrik
Travis Addair has been Senior Director of Engineering, AI at Rubrik since July 2025, based in Seattle, and says they lead engineering for Predibase. Travis Addair was Co-Founder & CTO at Predibase (acquired by Rubrik) from 2021 to 2025 and Tech Lead Manager at Uber from 2020 to 2021.
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