Kumar Ranjan — Director of Engineering

I lead and collaborate with multi-site quality engineering teams delivering enterprise storage ASICs, controllers and platforms from early architecture through production releases and customer-scale deployments. I focus on enterprise readiness end to end: reliability, performance, security, and truly zero-downtime upgrades across firmware, Linux I/O paths, and cloud-connected operations (including distributed systems). I work closely with Product, Architecture, and customer-facing teams to turn the roadmap into predictable releases with clear, measurable quality. Core strengths : • Multi-site org leadership (FTE + contractors), hiring, vendor management. • Enterprise storage readiness and zero-downtime release engineering. • NVMe / NVMe-oF (RoCEv2, TCP), JBOF and all-flash array strategy. • Performance engineering: SPDK, io_uring, datapath optimization, DPU offload. • Security for storage fabrics: DH-HMAC-CHAP, TLS, IPsec • Customer-facing leadership: escalations, design reviews, exec communication. • Debugging and triage using protocol analyzers and traces Technical depth: NVMe/PCIe, NVMe-oF, Ethernet/FC/iSCSI/NFS, Linux storage stack (DM-MP and related subsystems), RAID/data protection, and protocol-level debugging with Wireshark, LeCroy, and VIAVI.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a leader in enterprise storage solutions with a focus on reliability and performance.

Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Experience: 19 yrs 5 mos