Apr 2022 – Apr 2025 · 3 yrs · Hybrid

• Architected and led the integration of GenAI Copilot into Alta View (NetBackup SaaS), designing a generic agentic framework to support policy management and future AI-driven automation across backup workflows
• Enhanced the certificate management, trust-store and CRL for NetBackup Snapshot Manager
• Lead to support TLS-1.3, Encrypted Private Key and OpenSSL-3.x for NetBackup Snapshot Manager
• Enable SELinux Enforcing mode for container based microservices
• Managed containerization of various NetBackup Snapshot Manager services

Aug 2018 – Apr 2022 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Hybrid

• Supported Certificate Revocation List (CRL) and Online Certificate Status Protocol (OCSP) check for NetBackup Snapshot Manager
• Redesigned identity management in python to support TLS based authentication along with JWT
• Migrated API gateway from NodeJS to asynchronous tornado web server ensuring compliance without impacting scale
• Lead to support cloud-agnostic GRT support for Logical Volume Manager (LVM) disks
• Added cloud support for granular file/folder recovery for Windows and Linux
• Lead efforts on Python-2.7 to 3 migration and various security improvements
• Enable FIPS at rest for the product

Feb 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Working mainly for inSync product with end point backup team as senior engineer and individual contributor.
• Optimized CPU and RPC efficiency in backup/restore operations, cutting execution time by ~10%
• Added support of removable mounted device and network path exclusion during backup
• Written troubleshooting information collection for backup agents across multiple platforms
• Worked on Incremental Backup using File-System Journal for Windows and Mac
• Managed the upload and download of troubleshooting logs from Amazon S3

Apr 2015 – Jan 2016 · 9 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Led development of ultra-fast NoSQL backup database engine, achieving ~2x indexing speed for large datasets
• Explored the use of Adaptive Radix Tree as a persistent key value store
• Explored and worked with various open-source persistent and in-memory key-value stores such as RocksDB (by Facebook), MongoDB, Tarantool, and Memcached

Mar 2011 – Apr 2015 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India · On-site

• In Symantec, I worked with Dynamic Multipathing Team for VMWare platform as senior engineer
• Added support of SSD-based cache pool with seamless vMotion support of Virtual Machines (VMware) across ESXi hosts.
• Worked extensively on VMware’s Pluggable Storage Architecture (PSA) and Storage Array Type Plugin (SATP) to enable multipathing support.
• Enhanced management capabilities using VMware CIM Provider API and VI-SDK
• Added a memory leak and segmentation fault detection framework for VMware CIM Provider within the vDMP product.
• Added REST API support in vDMP to remotely execute esxcli commands on ESX-5.x and ESX-6.0 with vCenter/Host authentication.
• Introduced device naming support for DMP nodes in VMware environments.
• Built a feature to capture HBA events on ESXi hypervisor and dynamically rebuild the device tree based on event type
• Optimized Event Source Daemon through code restructuring, stale code cleanup, and memory leak fixes.

Sep 2010 – Mar 2011 · 6 mos · Pune Area, India · On-site

• In Nvidia, I worked with Tegra Mobile Automation Team. Also explored and worked on ADB (Android Debugger), Android SDK, Android NDK (Native Development Kit) apart from automation.
• Built an ADB-based embedded media profiler tool, reducing multimedia analysis time by 35% for Linux platforms.
• Enhanced the existing media profiling framework with loop, recursion and conditional logic support to improve automation flexibility

Aug 2006 – Sep 2010 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Pune Area, India · On-site

• Exploration, design, and coding on a parallel file system developed by C-DAC R&D to host large media files and parallel media streaming. Major role was to understand the existing code and make it POSIX compliance via FUSE.
• Worked on POSIX compliance for the Media Parallel File System (MPFS) using FUSE.
• Worked on block allocator and caching mechanisms for MPFS.
• Built TYFany (Take Your Filesystem Anywhere), a file-system synchronization tool.
• Created cluster deployment automation tool using SSH, reducing provisioning time from hours to minutes.
• Integrated Infiniband RDMA support into MPFS, increasing data transfer bandwidth by 200%.
• Built benchmarking and latency-measurement tools, guiding product optimization decisions