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United States

San Francisco Bay Area

United States

• Established quality and metric goals, test strategies and release criteria for a variety of SW features and HW modules part of the Pavilion Data Systems storage array.• Hired top talent to build local and off-shore teams with a proper balance of college interns and subject experts.• Successfully and timely delivered beta, FCS, GA, maintenance and patch releases while ensuring stability across HW and SW modules.• Implemented mentor programs for new-hires, to ensure efficient hands-on training and quick on-boarding.• Led cross-team efforts to debug and provide qualified fix to production customers.• Led the engineering escalation efforts to provide 24/7 support to marquee-brand customers across N. America and Europe.

United States

Responsible for system level validation of QoS features like DWRR, SPQ, FC, PFC, etc. on the Cavium CNX880XX family of Ethernet switches.

Sunnyvale, Ca

LEADERSHIP ROLE:• Established quality and metric goals, test strategies and release criteria for an array of SW features and HW modules part of the SeaMicro product line.• Partnered with SW development, HW Systems, ASIC development, PLM and customer support teams to successfully deliver multiple SeaMicro platforms including SM10K, SM15K, and SM15Ke.• Built, mentored, and managed a world class test team inclusive of college grads to 15+ year industry veterans.• Led a project to validate and deliver quality SW and HW for the SeaMicro SM15Ke platform, which included qualification of several key features in the network, compute sub-systems and a new storage controller.• Enabled and efficiently delivered in record time, a next-gen compute sub-system for a key customer account.• Delivered several FCS, GA, maintenance and patch releases, while never compromising on quality of the product.INDIVIDUAL CONTRIBUTOR:• Debugged and recreated critical data path defects for the storage controller part of the SM15Ke platform.• Verified VMWare vSphere HA cluster, vMotion, vSphere standard and distributed switches etc.• Debugged customer escalation tickets and was a key engineering contact for the customer support team.

Santa Clara, Ca

• Verified the HW and SW features for the prototype boards of the first SeaMicro product.• Completed product installations and helped with beta testing / eval testing at customer datacenters.• Devised testing strategies for the complexities presented by the SeaMicro micro-server SM10K product, whose compute sub-system ranged from 512 cores to 768 cores.• Qualified SeaMicro dense-server SM15K and SM15Ke product platforms. It included System Management features, Networking and Virtualization features, etc.

San Jose, Ca

TECH LEAD – MULTICAST • Lead the multicast team in testing multicast protocols supported in the Force10 E, C and S-Series switch/routers.• This included the protocols/features like – o PIM-SM, PIM-DM, PIM-SSM, IPv6 PIM-SM, PIM graceful restart, IPv6 PIM-SMo IGMPv1/v2/v3, IGMPv2 Snooping, IGMPv3 Snooping, MLDv2, MLDv1 Snooping, MSDP• Contributed in design discussions and PRD reviews for the above protocols, and influenced in making the features scalable, user-friendly and less prone to bugs.• Trained and mentored the offshore team, thereby building one of the most efficient team of test engineers.• Co-ordinated meetings between US and offshore team, managed and prioritized the activities of the members.• Triaged customer-reported problems and recreated them in-house.TEST ENGINEER - QUALITY OF SERVICE (QOS) • Wrote test plans, executed and completed the testing of the following features – o Traffic Classification, Markingo Rate Police, Rate Limit and Rate Shapeo Weighted Fair Queuing, Weighted Random Early DetectionTEST ENGINEER - PLATFORM TEST • Planned, documented and successfully completed the bring-up of control modules, linecards, fabric modules used in the Exascale and Terascale E-Series switch/routers.• Tested and qualified a variety of 1 GbE and 10 GbE linecards from the E-Series family of switch/routers.• Wrote detailed test plans and completed testing of platform features like - Auto-negotiation, SNMP v1/v2, High Availability of different HW and SW modules, SW Upgrade mechanisms, Supportability features etc.• Tested the FTOS CLI, to ensure an error free user-interface.

Master’S Degree, Computer Science

Masters, Computer Science

Masters, Computer Science

Bachelor’S Degree, Mechanical Engineering

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