Shailendra Sikhwal — Senior Software Engineer
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.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in enterprise storage and virtualization.
Location: Karnataka, India
Experience: 5 yrs 10 mos
Skills
- Storage Virtualization
- Performance Optimization
- Signal Processing
- Machine Learning Frameworks
- Machine Learning
Career Highlights
- 5+ years in high-performance systems engineering.
- Expertise in C++, Go, and Linux internals.
- 2 U.S. patents in storage performance optimization.
Work Experience
Dell Technologies
Senior Software Engineer (3 mos)
Software Engineer 2 (2 yrs 10 mos)
ABB
Research Internship (5 mos)
JSW
R&D engineer (3 yrs)
Education
M.tech at National Institute of Technology Karnataka
Bachelor of Technology at Rajasthan Technical University, Kota