May 2016 – Nov 2021 · 5 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Platforms Software Engineering - Platform Solutions Engineering, Hardware Abstraction, Hardware Health and Monitoring software, OEM Delivery

May 2013 – May 2016 · 3 yrs · Bangalore

• Firmware and Driver for Seagate Nytro Raid-On-Chip (RoC) based products and NVMe protocol-based SSDs, Nytro PCIe acceleration cards, and NVMe based PCIe and SFF-8639 SSDs.
• Moved due to Seagate acquisition of LSI's ASD division.
• DAS Storage Products. High-Performance PCI cards.
• Data Center based performance acceleration cards with high IOPS and low latency based on the MegaRAID core and Nytro Acceleration solutions.
• Product Portfolio:
• Nytro MegaRAID Application Acceleration card.
• Nytro XD Application Acceleration Storage Solution.
• Nytro WarpDrive Application Acceleration Card.

May 2011 – May 2013 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

• <Divison from LSI/Avago acquired by NetApp>
• High-performance storage solutions.
• Certification of block-based storage controllers.
• Quality Assurance. RAID Storage Engineering, External Storage Products, Product, and Software certification. OEM and EOEM products. Supportability tools and software architecture.
• Storage array firmware and software. High-performance storage computing and high bandwidth video storage.
• Agile software development process using scrums and user stories.
• o Product family – NetApp E7900, E5400, E2600 series.
• o Providing support and bug fixes to products already with the OEM customers.
• o Resolving escalations and issues with the OEM and EOEM customers.
• o Providing driver and software as a part of new features and fixes.
• Action Word development for Test Automation System
• o Develop Action Words in Java using packages and serial connections.
• o Action Words are used in Test Automation System for automating various kinds of tests.
• o Manage the Java code base using ClearCase and tracking the changes using ClearQuest.
• SQL Stored Procedure and query programming
• o Develop stored procedures in SQL which reside on the servers for execution.
• o Using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio for code check-ins.
• o Execution of SQL queries on the client side using stored procedures on the server.
• Manage and lead all the Automation related activities for a mid-sized team. Develop automation tools and scripts and review various tools and communicate across geographies. POC for all automation activities in the team.

Jul 2010 – May 2011 · 10 mos · Bangalore

• RAID Storage engineering, Serviceability and Supportability of External Storage products. Product and software certification. Storage architecture. OEM and EOEM storage products. Supportability tools and software architecture.
• Engenio Storage – RAID products certification.
• Serviceability and Supportability
• o Customer – IBM
• o Hardware and Software release of Engenio Storage controllers which would work on the array level virtualization layer upon which the RAID engine is located.
• Storage Products Release:
• o Customer – Oracle, Dell, TeraData
• o A powerful and fast array controller was introduced in this programme which ran Intel’s Jasper Forest 4 core processor.
• Automation Tools Development
• o Customer – LSI, IBM
• o A JAVA based provider for the Microsoft Virtual Disk Service (VDS) and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS), which are part of Windows Server 2003 and 2008. With the source control process via CM synergy and defect tracking process via IBM ClearQuest, this tool has been stable in the operating environment.
• o Developed to improve the efficiency of backup management processes for Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server environments.
• o Product family - IBM DS3000, DS4000, DS5000 series.

Jun 2008 – May 2010 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Serviceability and Supportability Tools Development - C++ and VB, the suite (built for Original Device Manufacturers) runs the tests and reports errors and failures automatically over a well built GUI.
• Tool development - Automated wiring and configuration diagrams
• A tool built to ease the engineer's responsibility of verification and validation of the wiring of the storage system arrays. Tool (built in OpenGL), helps the user to view a real-time simulation of the actual wiring diagram of the system.
• Worked for validation on increasing the number of host machines supported by the NVSRAM of a storage system array.
• Functional and stress testing, product certification on the numerous programme including basic functionality tests and stress tests. Exposure to writing and submission of Change Requests for the purpose of finding and fixing bugs and issues in the systems.