As a senior engineer, I exemplified technical leadership through my role as the primary lead for the SnapMirror Business Continuity development team. Within this capacity, I oversaw the entire lifecycle of a critical project, focusing specifically on the data-path architecture.My primary objective entailed the creation of a robust solution capable of facilitating seamless application granular storage fail-over across metropolitan distances. Key aspects of the project included ensuring write order consistency, establishing consistency groups, implementing quorum consensus, deploying mediator functionality, incorporating tie-breaker mechanisms, enabling synchronous replication, enhancing replication performance through i-node dependency graphs, and facilitating non-disruptive operations based on persistent inflight operation tracking. Furthermore, I played an integral role in the development of comprehensive procedures for both planned and unplanned fail-over scenarios. During the qualification phase, I got an opportunity to successfully debug, and resolve several intricate data corruption issues. Additionally, I spearheaded the fail-over IO resumption time performance improvement project, achieving a notable 50% increase in IORT efficiency. The SMBC projects witnessed the filing of multiple patents by NetApp. To know more about SM-BC, visit: https://docs.netapp.com/us-en/ontap/smbc/#benefits

In my first position at NetApp engineering, I played a key role in the development of NetApp's flagship cluster mode data protection and disaster recovery solutions, including Metro Cluster, Asynchronous SnapMirror for Storage VMs (also known as SVM-DR), and SnapMirror Synchronous for NAS and SAN protocols. These solutions were integral features of the NetApp ONTAP storage operating system.As the lead engineer, I collaborated closely with project managers and technical directors to gather customer requirements and translate them into engineering requirements. This involved identifying and defining use cases, and subsequently formulating functional specifications for the features. I also undertook the responsibility of overseeing the design and development processes.Throughout my tenure, I gained expertise in various concepts and technologies such as synchronous replication, filesystem management, clustering, distributed programming, virtualization, snapshots, mirroring, vaulting, configuration replication, and version independence. The primary coding languages utilized were C/C++, and I worked extensively with Linux simulators and FreeBSD Unix running on x86_64 storage servers.As part of these projects, I had opportunities to collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and utilize a diverse range of technical skills and tools. I count my contributions as a lead engineer critical in the development of flagship data protection and disaster recovery solutions for NetApp.

C/C++ programming & debugging for fixing Linux kernel & user space bugs on IBM server platforms

IPMI, Embedded Linux, ATCA, Server Management, CIM