Shailendra Sikhwal

Senior Software Engineer

Karnataka, India5 yrs 10 mos experience
AI ML PractitionerAI Enabled

Key Highlights

  • 5+ years in high-performance systems engineering.
  • Expertise in C++, Go, and Linux internals.
  • 2 U.S. patents in storage performance optimization.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in enterprise storage and virtualization.

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Skills

Core Skills

Storage VirtualizationPerformance OptimizationSignal ProcessingMachine Learning FrameworksMachine Learning

Other Skills

Data StructuresComputer VisionC++TensorFlowGo (Programming Language)VirtualizationOperating SystemPyTorchKerasArtificial Intelligence (AI)Python (Programming Language)Computer ScienceEmbedded SoftwareCommunicationC (Programming Language)

About

Software engineer with 5+ years of experience building and scaling high-performance systems across enterprise storage and virtualization platforms. Currently working on the Dell PowerMax storage platform, designing and developing business-critical features including migration, cloning, snapshots, and replication, with a strong focus on performance optimization at scale. Strong expertise in C++, GO, and C, with deep knowledge of Linux internals, multithreaded systems, and system design. Hands-on experience with VMware virtualization, Kubernetes, and OpenShift Virtualization, along with a solid understanding of SAN storage architectures. Experience in machine learning and AI-driven techniques including computer vision and LLM-based solutions using RAG, particularly in performance analysis and optimization. Continuously refining algorithmic and problem-solving skills through 400+ LeetCode problems, along with 2 U.S. patent submissions in storage performance optimization using machine learning. Focused on C++/Go/C systems and backend engineering, building high-performance, low-latency, and scalable infrastructure software.

Experience

5 yrs 10 mos
Total Experience
3 yrs
Average Tenure
2 yrs 10 mos
Current Experience

Dell technologies

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2026Present · 3 mos · On-site

Software Engineer 2

Aug 2023Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · On-site

  • Working on PowerMax enterprise storage, with a primary focus on storage performance optimization and large-scale storage virtualization. Responsible for designing and developing scalable storage virtualization features used in production environments.
  • Regularly handle complex production issues, leading in-depth root cause analysis and delivering robust fixes that improve system reliability, performance, and customer experience.
Data StructuresComputer VisionStorage VirtualizationPerformance Optimization

Abb

Research Internship

Jul 2022Dec 2022 · 5 mos · Bengaluru · On-site

  • Developed signal-processing features in C/C++ for rotating machine, extracting key feature from raw sensor data.
  • Designed and implemented a machine-learning framework to evaluate model performance against multiple baseline approaches, enabling data-driven validation and comparison.
  • Optimized the inference and deployment pipeline by exporting trained models to ONNX, enabling hardware-efficient execution and smoother integration into resource-constrained production environments.
Machine LearningData StructuresSignal ProcessingMachine Learning Frameworks

Jsw

R&D engineer

Sep 2018Sep 2021 · 3 yrs · Maharashtra, India · On-site

Machine LearningTensorFlow

Education

National Institute of Technology Karnataka

M.tech — Signal Processing and Machine Learning

Jan 2021Jan 2023

Rajasthan Technical University, Kota

Bachelor of Technology — Electrical and Electronics Engineering

Jan 2014Jan 2018

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