Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos

• Executive Director , IBM FlashSystem & Storage Insights World Wide Development.

Apr 2022 – Jul 2025 · 3 yrs 3 mos

• IBM Storage Insights a micro services based SaaS offering by IBM in space of monitoring and AI/ML/Analytics based predictive & Proactive storage management.

May 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Oct 2015 – Apr 2020 · 4 yrs 6 mos

• Mission : Ethernet storage design , development & customer adoption , Level 3 Escalation support for existing customers , Enable high CSAT score , Evangelize Technology.
• As Development Manager , responsible for IBM Spectrum Virtualize ( SVC & Storwize ) design and development of storage functions for core GA and patch release with a special focus on Storage Interconnect protocol development for 10G/25G/40G/100G connection speed & other Scalability and Performance components. . Spectrum virtualize is a industry leader in block storage virtualization along with advances storage functions like compression , replication , mirroring , encryption , snapshots , tiering etc. Spectrum virtualize has a capability to provide block storage over iSCSI , FC and FCoE interconnect.
• As Level 3 support manager , responsible for customer cases escalated to Level 3 development support like bring up the production environment , diagnosing the problem , bug fixing , delivery of iFixes , customer communication etc.This role involve dealing with various customer critical situations so need a quick response to the customer with resolution or a work around.

Apr 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs 5 mos

• Quality Engineering Manager for SAN Volume controller ( SVC ) and Storwize Family of IBM storage Products. Key roles & Responsibilities
• Manage a team of test engineers performing Functional , Regression and performance testing for multiple SVC components ( FC , FCoE , iSCSI , Remote Copy , Cache , Storage Cluster , Easy Tier , Test Automation ).
• Customer Advocacy & Pre sales engagement.
• Level 3 R&D support for customer escalations.
• Development and Test manager for IBM Subsystem Device Driver FC Multipathing solution.

Mar 2021 – Dec 2025 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Representing IBM at SNIA India as a Board member.

May 2011 – Apr 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Bangalore

• Quality Engineering Manager at VMware

Jan 2010 – May 2011 · 1 yr 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Mission : High Quality Product release.
• Program management of first ever release of storage backup application.

Sep 2006 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Work as a part of " Technology Enablement and Solutions Organization " in Netapp. Our objective is to create infrastructure solutions for Netapp and partners, which caters to enterprise customer problems and ultimately enable the field and our partners to sell and deploy more and more Netapp products.

Mar 2005 – Aug 2006 · 1 yr 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Worked as storage consultant for EMC products.

Mar 2003 – Apr 2005 · 2 yrs 1 mo · Greater Delhi Area

• Worked as professional service engineer in System Integration department. I was responsible for IT Solution deployment at customer site. It Solution included server/SAN deployment and configuration.