Amber Palekar
About Amber Palekar
Amber Palekar serves as the Founding Engineer and Director of Engineering - Data Path at Clumio, where she has worked since 2017. She has a background in computer engineering and information networking, with previous roles at Nutanix, PernixData, NetApp, and VERITAS Software India.
Work at Clumio
Amber Palekar serves as the Founding Engineer and Director of Engineering for Data Path at Clumio since 2017. In this role, she has developed a data pipeline for backup and restore processes and contributed to building the orchestration layer for cloud-native platform tasks. Her work focuses on creating cloud-native SaaS backups specifically for VMware on-prem, VMC, and AWS EC2/EBS. Her expertise in engineering and cloud solutions plays a critical role in Clumio's offerings.
Previous Experience
Prior to her current role at Clumio, Amber Palekar worked at Nutanix as Monster of Typical Stuff for one year from 2016 to 2017. She also held the position of Staff Software Engineer at PernixData, which was acquired by Nutanix, from 2015 to 2016. Her earlier experience includes nine years at NetApp as a File System Engineer from 2006 to 2015, where she focused on backup indexing, search, and granular recovery solutions for cloud-native platforms. Additionally, she worked as an Associate Software Engineer at VERITAS Software India Pvt Ltd for one year in 2002.
Education and Expertise
Amber Palekar holds a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Computer Engineering from Pune Institute of Computer Technology. She furthered her education by obtaining a Master of Science (MS) in Information Networking from Carnegie Mellon University. Her educational background supports her extensive experience in software engineering and cloud technologies, enabling her to lead significant projects in her current and previous roles.
Technical Contributions
Throughout her career, Amber Palekar has made significant technical contributions, particularly in the field of cloud-native solutions. At Clumio, she has led the development of cloud-native SaaS backups tailored for VMware environments and has worked on enhancing backup and restore processes. Her experience with orchestration layers and data pipelines demonstrates her capability in managing complex engineering tasks in the cloud computing domain.