Apr 2021 – Oct 2024 · 3 yrs 6 mos · San Jose, California, United States · On-site

• Led a multi-year NPI initiative of a cutting-edge 1.0 shared-nothing scale-out Fast-Object store "Alletra MP X10000" appliance rooted in the robust capabilities of the Kubernetes control plane with collaboration across 22+ work streams, 150+ engineers and 4+ program managers.
• Collaborated with Architects, Technologists, and Product leads to plan and scope MVP into demonstrable Potential Shippable Increments (PSI).
• Scripted detailed planning format for 20+ work streams, ensuring alignment with Acceptance Criteria and lateral dependencies.
• Accelerated development through Simulator Program, reducing hardware-related delays, advancing delivery by 7 months and reducing Capex spend by $XXM.
• Enhanced tracking efficiency with Jira advanced roadmaps, helping shorten dependency turn-around times by 25%.
• Piloted a "Release Qualification Framework" to improve the speed and predictability of NPI program. Impact: Reduced backend test SLO from 11 weeks to 6 weeks.
• Defined a BAIT (Basic Acceptance Integration Test) strategy, boosting main branch stability and reducing branch locks by over 40%.
• Achieved 30% faster SLO to achieve General Availability through a "wide-shallow" strategy with Product support to enable faster adoption for Nimble releases
• Successfully executed impactful key releases for the Nimble product line, incorporating essential features such as enabling the Data-Services cloud console for Nimble Arrays, facilitating online FW updates, and delivering DHCI solutions to a diverse install base of over 35K deployments.

Oct 2017 – Feb 2021 · 3 yrs 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Accomplished significant milestone releases, seamlessly integrating pivotal functionalities including Dedupe, Stretch Cluster, and Datera2Object (D2O) – an innovative snapshot-dependent remote backup and restoration solution hosted on a public cloud blob store.
• Defined clear branching strategy and guidelines for Feature, Maintenance, and Hot-patch releases.
• Managed migration of in-house analytics to Kubernetes with Datera CSI, improving resource efficiency by 50%.
• Owned OEM Partner Enablement, driving $5M revenue increase through channel partner engagement.
• Developed "Feature: Get Well Plan," reducing escalations by 40% and enhancing recurrent sales.
• Commenced the implementation of a Go-to-Production initiative for cloud-native platforms involving the deployment of Datera CSI and Ansible Modules to facilitate Tier-1 customer workload management.

Jul 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bedford, Massachusetts, United States

• Engineered features and sustained efforts for Enterprise Communications Broker, simplifying complex VoIP and unified communications networks.

Sep 2015 – Jul 2016 · 10 mos · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

• NetStorage provides a mechanism for storing data on the backend to augment mirroring,striping of large files across multiple machines.
• Worked on additional enhancements for Integrity Checking,Recovery and Migration on Netstorage.
• Automate troubleshooting solutions/Alarm management into permanent parts of the Akamai Netstorage via code changes in components, additional monitoring, increased capacity.

Jun 2012 – Sep 2015 · 3 yrs 3 mos · San Jose

• Contributed to Cisco UCS Manager, enabling automation and scalability in server operations.

Jun 2011 – Aug 2011 · 2 mos · San Jose,CA

• Interned in the UCS Manager product for server access and virtualization business unit. I was responsible to learn about the UCSM architecture and to integrate Mellanox Network Interface cards to be managed by UCS manager. It involved embedded development as well as understanding the facets of interaction at various levels of the system.

May 2010 – Sep 2010 · 4 mos · New Delhi Area, India

Jul 2007 – Sep 2009 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bangalore,India

• worked on Nokia Flexi Platform