vivek sharma

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India18 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

15+ years in infrastructure automation and system reliability.
Expert in storage and distributed systems.
Led high-impact initiatives for automated testing.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Storage Solutions expert with strong automation and testing capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

StorageCloud ComputingVirtualizationAutomation

Other Skills

Agile methodologiesAutomation testingAutomation testing processCIFSCIFS/SMB storage stackCode reviewContinuous Process ImprovementCritical ThinkingFile SystemsFunctional testingHuawei Cloud Storage PlatformHyper-VLinuxMac OS XManual and automated tests

About

Staff Engineer (Systems Engineering) with 15+ years of experience leading infrastructure automation, system reliability, and product qualification strategies across storage, virtualization, cloud-native platforms, data security, and cyber resilience. I’ve played a pivotal role in transforming how infrastructure is tested, qualified, and scaled - shifting from manual, fragmented workflows to automated, self-service systems that drive faster, more reliable product delivery. I lead high-impact initiatives across dynamic test environments, systemic qualification, and simulation frameworks — collaborating closely with engineering, quality, and infrastructure teams to improve velocity and resilience at scale. With deep expertise in storage and distributed systems, I operate at the intersection of architectural thinking and hands-on execution. My leadership style is grounded in clarity, structure, and long-term system design — with a focus on building platforms that evolve, self-heal, and scale confidently. Core Focus Areas: - Infrastructure & test automation at scale - Systemic qualification & reliability strategy - Storage, virtualization & cloud-native systems (NFS, VMFS, Distributed File Systems, ESXi, Kubernetes, GCP) - Technical leadership & mentoring I lead with the belief that system scalability and reliability demand both engineering depth and strategic foresight.

Experience

Rubrik

2 roles

Staff Engineer

Promoted

Oct 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos

Member Of Technical Staff

Dec 2018 – Oct 2021 · 2 yrs 10 mos

Huawei technologies

Senior System Architect

Jun 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Storage Test architect for Scale-out File System and NFS (v3 & v4.1) protocol stack on Huawei Cloud Storage Plaform.

Storage Test architectScale-out File SystemNFS protocol stackHuawei Cloud Storage PlatformStorageCloud Computing

Tegile, a western digital brand

MTS

Apr 2015 – Jun 2017 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Responsible for end-to-end qualification of NFS (v3, v4 & v4.1) & CIFS/SMB storage stack for Tegile’s hybrid & all flash array (Intelliflash).
Testing Vmware Virtual desktop environment (VDI) Solutions, Hyper-V, SRA/SRM with Tegile array.
In depth work wrt NFSv3, NFSv41, VAAI
In depth work wrt Hyper-v VM replication/checkpoint etc
Leading parallel product releases with team of 5 members.
Planning features, test cases across releases.
Test end to end configurations for ESX 5.5, ESX 6.0 & hyper-v with Tegile Storage array.
Scale testing and identifying protocol/filesystem limits for the release.
Protocol performance analysis across releases for NFS.
Reproduce Customer escalation in house.
Test optimization, defect trend analysis, customer escalation trends
Writing Testplans/Testspecs/testcases for various features.

NFS qualificationCIFS/SMB storage stackTesting VMware VDI SolutionsHyper-VStorageVirtualization

Vmware

3 roles

Member of Technical Staf III (Storage)

Jul 2013 – Apr 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

Responsible for functional qualification of VMware's next generation NFS client (NFSv4.1 client) implementation in ESXi server.
Implement/Execute the manual and automation testing for NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 client in ESXi.
Contribute to testing strategy for NFSv4.1 client from functional as well as interoperability aspects.
Code review, automation design enhancements.
Analyze product bugs coming from issues reported in field to enhance testing strategy.
Lead and mentor new hires in the team.
Testing and automation lead for NFSv4.1 with Kerberos security and NFS over IPv6.
Carry out RCCA of NFSv3 client issues reported in the field and enhancement of Test design for NFSv3 and NFSv4.1 based on the analysis.

NFSv4.1 client testingAutomation testingCode reviewMentoringStorageAutomation

Member of Technical Staf II (Storage)

Apr 2011 – Jun 2013 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Responsible for qualification of VMware vSphere storage appliance (vVSA 5.1).
Implement/Execute the automation testing process using Perl and vTAF/Software Test automation Framework (STAF)
Preparation of the Test design specifications.
Contribute in testing strategies across features looking at functional as well as interoperability aspects.
Working with local and remote Dev. teams for planning and prioritization in each milestone and sub-milestone.
Testing with Agile development (scrum methodologies) process

Automation testing processTest design specificationsAgile methodologiesAutomationVirtualization

Member of Technical Staff I

Dec 2008 – Jun 2011 · 2 yrs 6 mos

VMware Acquired Kapsean.
Responsible for qualification of Vmware’s first Storage virtualization appliance called, VMware vSphere storage appliance (vVSA 1.0).
http://www.vmware.com/products/datacentervirtualization/vsphere/vspherestorage-appliance/overview.html
Preparation of test design specifications for a complete new product
Execution of manual and automated tests (Functional, GUI)
Discussion with developers on product design and features
Suggested new features to improve the user experience

Qualification of storage virtualization applianceManual and automated testsProduct design discussionsStorageVirtualization

Kapsean inc

SQA Engineer

Nov 2007 – Nov 2008 · 1 yr · Udaipur Area, India

Small startup of 20 people.
Was part of the QA team, resposible for the testing of iSCUBE (Storage server OS, provide shared storage out of any standard PC) and MyiGrid (Windows based, management client for multi-node pool of storage that can handle RAID 0, 1, 5, and 6 and provide dynamic volume management from LAN-based PCs).
Testing involved Functional, Regression, GUI, Sanity and Performance testing.

Testing of storage server OSFunctional testingPerformance testingStorage