Sridhar Sabesan

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India21 yrs 6 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led QA for world's first BigData Flash Array.
Delivered multiple innovative storage products at Western Digital.
Expert in enterprise storage solutions and validation.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in enterprise storage solutions with a strong focus on quality assurance and product validation.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software Quality AssuranceValidationEnterprise Storage Qa DeliveryProject PlanningTest ArchitectureProject ManagementProduct & System TestingTesting

Other Skills

ServersRAIDStorage -DASNASSANiSCSIServer Mgmt S/WSystem TestingAutomated Software TestingTest PlanningServer ManagementRequirements AnalysisTest CasesLinuxC

About

Focussing towards achieving Enterprise quality product delivery with TTM

Experience

21 yrs 6 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

7 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Western digital

2 roles

Senior Director, Engineering

Promoted

Feb 2024 – Present · 2 yrs 4 mos

Platform Engineering BU Head for India.
Responsible for Development and QA for Western Digital Platform products including delivery responsibilities for Global Proof of Concepts, Ecosystem development and customer engagements.
OpenFlex Data24 (2U HA NVMeoF fabric enclosure)
OpenFlex E3000/F3x00 (3U Dense NVMeoF fabric enclosure)
RapidFlex (NVMeoF Controllers)
Ultrastar Data 102/60 (SAS - JBOD/Hybrid JBOD)
Ultrastar Serv24-A, Ultrastar Edge & Edge-MR (Portable Data Transport Storage Server)
Management Softwares

ServersRAIDStorage -DASNASSANiSCSI+17

Director, Platform Engineering

Sep 2018 – Jan 2024 · 5 yrs 4 mos

Sandisk

Sr. Manager, Engineering

Feb 2014 – Aug 2018 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

Leading the QA team on the Technical front for innovative Storage products developed at SanDisk India Device Design Centre.
Complete ownership of End to End planning, feature scoping and testability.
Ensuring project goals are on tracked and features are delivered TTM.
Responsible for Enterprise Storage QA delivery of SAS, NVMe Storage Arrays & Storage Servers.
Responsible for Recruitment, Training, Project planning, Estimation, Budget Planning, Project Execution, Process and Quality adherence.
Delivered the QA for world's first BigData Flash Array - SanDisk InfiniFlash100
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z-0dMWB9ZQ

End to End planningFeature scopingTestabilityEnterprise Storage QA deliveryRecruitmentTraining+5

Lsi corporation

Test Architect

Feb 2013 – Feb 2014 · 1 yr · Banglore

Defining test architecture for the next generation of LSI products.
Leading projects towards a higher process maturity.
Planning & managing projects towards deadlines while maintaining quality deliverable from the team.
Led the QA team and successfully delivered the LSI Nytro MegaRAID 8140-8e8i product which is the first 2TB based PCIe Flash controller from LSI stable.

Test architectureProject managementQuality deliverablesLeading QA team

Intel technology india pvt. ltd

Validation Technical Lead / Program Manager

Dec 2007 – Jan 2013 · 5 yrs 1 mo

Project planning, budgeting, marketing & product requirement analysis, creating test plan and specifications.
Program Manager for Intel Server Platforms - Elk Peak, Garden Island & Thunder Hill for multiple EST S/W Deliverables.
Lead multiple test teams in validation for a range of Servers, Storage and related Software products.
Delivered 3 generations of Intel Server Hardware system test coupled with management software deliverables.

Project planningBudgetingMarketingProduct requirement analysisCreating test planSpecifications+1

Dell

PG Sr. Engineer

Feb 2007 – Dec 2007 · 10 mos

Product & System testing of Dell 10G servers. Mentoring Junior engineers. Performing escape analysis, Interlocking with various development teams across the sites and understand scope of changes and work with team members to derive at Test cases and Test case strategy.

Product & System testingMentoringEscape analysisInterlocking with development teamsTest case strategy

Hcl infosystems ltd

Project Engineer

Mar 2005 – Feb 2007 · 1 yr 11 mos

Planning and execution of workflow in order to complete projects ahead of time-line. Testing of various servers from Intel/Tyan/Supermicro and its peripherals. Providing Procedure and amendments to production line in order to meet the customer requirements
Converted client requirements into PoC. Successfully handled major multi-crore (Rs.200-300Cr) Benchmark Projects for organisations like National Informatics Centre (NIC) and DGS&D.

PlanningExecutionTestingProviding ProcedureAmendments to production line