Kushal S.R — Associate Partner

Passionate Product Leadership professional and Storage validation expert with 16+ years of experience driving enterprise SSD/NVMe programs from silicon to hyperscale deployment. Core Expertise: ========== • Petabyte-scale SSD architecture with NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) for hyperscaler workloads • Disaggregated storage solutions — JBOF, NVMe-oF (TCP/ RDMA RoCE v2) • PoseidonOS (Open Compute Project): lightweight, high-performance storage OS for fabric-attached environments (CLI/ GUI/ REST API/ CSI - Container Storage Interface) • AI/ML workload validation — Stable Diffusion, MLPerf, MongoDB, Kubernetes • Gen5 NVMe E3.S SSDs, multi-namespace support, and QLC/TLC optimization • Solution & Performance Benchmarking across Block IO, Object IO, File IO workloads Leadership & Program Management: ======================== ✓ Led cross-functional NPI and sustenance programs at Intel and Samsung ✓ Directed enterprise server, storage, and networking validation across NAND, SAS/SATA, and NVMe SSDs ✓ Delivered end-to-end system solution validation including BIOS, BMC, CPLD, and Intel Xeon platforms ✓ Managed international collaborations across Shanghai, China (Intel) and Suwon, South Korea (Samsung) Technical Depth: Storage: SSD, SAN, NAS, DAS, RAID groups, High Availability (HA), Scale-out cluster architectures Performance: HammerDB, YCSB, FIO, VDBench, s3Bench, WARP Workloads: Databases (MongoDB, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis), KVM/VMs, MinIO, CEPH, Kubernetes Keen interest in leadership roles across top-tier storage and semiconductor organizations, driving next-generation SSD, NVMe, and data-center storage innovation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Storage and Semiconductor expert specializing in enterprise SSD and NVMe solutions.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 17 yrs