Santanu Misra

Santanu Misra is a seasoned professional with extensive experience in production engineering and operations management, currently serving as Senior Manager of Production Engineering at Backblaze since October 2025. Prior roles include Manager of Application Support at LSEG, where Santanu scaled a global Site Reliability Engineering team to over 45 engineers and achieved a 99% uptime. At Thomson Reuters, leadership of over 50 engineers improved incident resolution time by 25% through ITIL-based workflows. Previous positions include Site Operation Manager at Reuters, managing operations for six data centers, and extensive experience in systems administration from firms such as TIBCO Finance Technology and Duet Technologies. Santanu holds an EGMP in General Management from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology.