Jul 2020 – Apr 2021 · 9 mos

Mar 2019 – Jun 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Jun 2016 – Jun 2018 · 2 yrs

• Lead engineering development and qualification teams for NetApp's VMware virtualization suite of products namely - Virtual Storage Console, VASA Provider and Storage Replication Adapter.
• Key Achievements:
• Successfully revived NetApp’s VMware Virtualization products over last 2 years after it was shutdown due to low adoption.
• Network World named these as one of the 25 hottest products at VMworld 2017.
• Formed a high performing team of highly qualified engineers to design, develop, qualify and deliver multiple releases to gain back NetApp's marketing and customer confidence triggering high adoption.
• Demonstrated Product ownership over its complete life cycle by guiding customer support teams as well during critical customer escalations
• Led the team to drive organization wide security requirements into ongoing product releases.
• Responsible for managing relationship with remote contract team of manager and engineers. Developed statement of work and lead integration of resources into various NetApp projects
• Accelerated product development from a 10-12 month release cycle to a release every 6 months
• Joined NetApp as an individual contributor and rose to the position of Engineering Manager managing a team of 15+ engineers.

Aug 2013 – May 2016 · 2 yrs 9 mos

• Core Engineering lead for NetApp 7-Mode Transition Tool which was a key enabler in helping customers migrate both data and configuration from older generation to the latest generation of NetApp Storage Operating System. Spearheaded complete revamp of its User Interface making it a lot more easier for customers to use. Responsibilities included -
• Providing technical leadership to the product development team to deliver multiple releases
• Interfacing with multiple teams across NetApp to understand and simplify migration challenges
• Individual contributor for complex features

Feb 2011 – Aug 2013 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Scrum master and individual contributor for Dell's Active System range of products, contributing towards the design and development of Active System Manager (Unified Management Console) for Dell's Active system comprising of Switches, Servers and Storage.

Oct 2004 – Feb 2011 · 6 yrs 4 mos

• Core Contributor of System Management team for Sun's high availability and disaster recovery product namely Solaris Cluster. Core Designer/Developer for Solaris Cluster web/cli based user interface.

Jun 2003 – Oct 2004 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Part of in house research and development team responsible for developing and maintaining various application layer telecommunications products. Core Designer/Developer for Telecom softwares specifically for Prepaid systems. Worked on various J2EE technologies - JSP, Servlets, HTML, XML, EJB, JMS.