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Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Spearheaded the development of features in multiple AWS Services like Amazon Aurora, AWS Lex, and a Distributed SQL Database (yet to launch)• Led a cross-functional and geographically dispersed team to integrate Generative AI features into AWS Lex, A conversational AI chatbot leveraging AWS Bedrock Agent and Knowledge Base• Led the design and development of multiple micro-services for a highly disaggregated, geo-distributed SQL Database Service (yet to launch)• Led Quality Initiative for Aurora Core Driver that connects SQL Engine to Aurora Storage resulting in 50% improvement in Test Coverage and 30% increase in code coverage

Bengaluru Area, India

o Owned significant charter for NAS Protocol Engineering and Cloud File Services for ONTAP Software collaborating with multiple teams in US and Indiao Collaborated and contributed in most of the latest innovations from NetApp like Azure NetApp Files, Amazon FXs for ONTAP, GCP-ATOM (NetApp CVS powered by GKE) Cloud Volume ONTAP, Scale out storage with FlexGroup and multi-cloud Auto-tiering with Fabric Pool and Global File Cache solution, FlexCache.o Championed NAS protocol support in Azure NetApp File and Cloud Volume Services for GCPo Delivered a multi-release performance improvement project in the WAFL file system and Lock Manager, achieving a 20-45% IO performance boosto Owned and delivered multiple features in File System and Protocol Security components like Fpolicy, Antivirus and File system Auditing support o Championed collaboration with NetApp Cloud Insights, integrating core ONTAP security, monitoring, and analytics features.o Led the design and development of the Object Store Client (S3 and Azure) used in Cloud Auto-tiering and other hybrid cloud solutions, enabling seamless data management across clouds and on-premises deploymentsMy team was involved in most of the latest innovations from NetApp like Azure NetApp Files, Amazon FXs for ONTAP, GCP-ATOM ( NetApp CVS powered by GKE) CVO, Scale out storage with FlexGroup and multi-cloud Auto-tiering with Fabric Pool and Global File Cache solution FlexCache.

Bangalore

o Pioneered Revenue-Generating Innovation: Assembled a new team to design, develop, and launch the HTTP Service in Data ONTAP in less than a year. This initiative secured a significant $30 million revenue win from a key customer and established the groundwork for future S3 server support in ONTAP.o Championed Cross-Functional Collaboration: Led and spearheaded Protocol Engineering teams in a collaborative effort to deliver the Metro Cluster feature, a highly anticipated Sync and Async DR solution. This project involved cross- team and cross-geo collaboration across the ONTAP Engineering Groupo Spearheaded Modernization Efforts: Led the transition of protocol features in NetApp's legacy storage systems from 7- mode ONTAP to highly distributed Clustered Data ONTAP systems, driving a significant modernisation initiative

Bangalore

• Led a cross-functional team of over 15 development, test, and system engineers across multiple groups to design and develop critical protocol services (SNMP, NetConf, NTP) for VRP-V8, the next-generation virtual routing platform powering core routers at Huawei.• Earned recognition as the best onsite leader for fostering collaboration and coordinating the development effort for VRP-V8 with the teams in China headquarters

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

oBuilt High-Performing Team for Revolutionary Media Platform Spearheaded the creation of a 20+ engineer team to design and develop cutting-edge management plane components for the Media Experience Engine (MXE5600) MXE5600 is Cisco's next-generation media processing platform poised to revolutionize media collaboration by enabling any-to-any media adaptation and high-performance HD video interoperability for Cisco Telepresence Systems with leading industry solutions Designed and coded 7 different components of MXE5600 based on SAF(Service Availability Forum) Framework. Successfully scaled the team from 3 to over 20 engineers within 2 years, fostering collaboration across India and the US

Bangalore,India

Started My Career in Wipro with QA engineer testing ATM NIC card for Marconi Communications, Pittsburgh, USA. After a short Instinct as QA Engineer, I got involved in Driver Development ( both Protocol and Device) for ATM NICs. Also got chance of developing few protocols from ATM Forum Specs. After Working with Marconi Communications for 3.5 years, moved to Cisco Systems after a short Instinct with AT&T. Got involved in Cisco system's Core ATM Switches ( BPX, IGX) and Edge MSPs ( MGX1 & 2) for couple of years working on wide verity of protocols e.g. ATM, FR, IMA, LANE/MPOA, PNNI, MPLS, TCP/IP, SONET etc. Got Hands on exposure on writing MIPS micro code for ATMizer chips, HA framework and issues dealing with HOT redundancy..

Bachelor Of Engineering (Be), Computer Science

Completed Computer Engineering from BIT Sindri, Dhanbad, India

Advanced Diploma In Business Management