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I lead Control Plane activities for Portworx at Pure Storage. This includes our integrations with Public and Private clouds, Orchestration engines (Kubernetes, Openshift, Rancher) and Storage workflows to interface with the core Portworx data plane.

I lead Control Plane activities for Portworx at Pure Storage. This includes our integrations with Public and Private clouds, Orchestration engines (Kubernetes, Openshift, Rancher) and Storage workflows to interface with the core Portworx data plane.

Helping craft storage solutions for Kubernetes.Lead for the Autopilot Project (https://docs.portworx.com/portworx-install-with-kubernetes/autopilot/).https://github.com/libopenstorage/storkhttps://github.com/libopenstorage/openstoragehttps://github.com/libopenstorage/autopilot-apihttps://github.com/portworx/torpedohttps://github.com/portworx/sched-opshttps://github.com/portworx/talisman

Part of the management software team in the Data Center group that's involved in writing management stack for the caching and storage products of the group.Key responsibilities:- Design & author RESTful web services- Evaluate technology options for various components of the management stack- Architect proof of concept prototypes for new versions of the stack that are distributed and highly available- Design & author command-line interface for managing & monitoring the application- Design CIM (Common Information Model) interfaces for windows & linux providers and manage development of providers by offshore contractors- Benchmark JVM performance and troubleshoot memory leaks- Help the team in Continuous Integration pipelines for various products (centered around Jenkins)- Plan agile sprints on JIRA- Mentor the team in transition from Subversion to Git and setup workflows & best practicesLanguages: Java, Python, BashFrameworks: Dropwizard, Spring, Tomcat, Airline, JlineDatabases: Cassandra, PostgresSQL, ElasticsearchDeployment models: Docker, VMware Virtual Appliance (OVA)DevOps: Jenkins, Git, Reviewboard, CoverityMiscellaneous tools: VMware vSphere, jvisualvm, jstat, Kibana

Part of the management software team in the Data Center group that's involved in writing management stack for the caching and storage products of the group.Key responsibilities:- Design & author RESTful web services- Evaluate technology options for various components of the management stack- Architect proof of concept prototypes for new versions of the stack that are distributed and highly available- Design & author command-line interface for managing & monitoring the application- Design CIM (Common Information Model) interfaces for windows & linux providers and manage development of providers by offshore contractors- Benchmark JVM performance and troubleshoot memory leaks- Help the team in Continuous Integration pipelines for various products (centered around Jenkins)- Plan agile sprints on JIRA- Mentor the team in transition from Subversion to Git and setup workflows & best practicesLanguages: Java, Python, BashFrameworks: Dropwizard, Spring, Tomcat, Airline, JlineDatabases: Cassandra, PostgresSQL, ElasticsearchDeployment models: Docker, VMware Virtual Appliance (OVA)DevOps: Jenkins, Git, Reviewboard, CoverityMiscellaneous tools: VMware vSphere, jvisualvm, jstat, Kibana

- Involved in developmental activities for productizing of new features and releases - Helped in Continuous Integration (CI) efforts in the team that includes Source Control Management, Build, Code Analysis, Test and Release phases- Benchmark performance of our product in high scale virtual machine environments under varying workloads (using LoginVSI)- Automate deployment & management of large-scale virtualized environments

* Part of Cisco's Nexus OS software development team (Platform group)* Write and Maintain Device Drivers for PHY and MAC layer asics for 10G, 40G and 100G Linecards of Cisco's Nexus 7000 Data Center Switches* Involved in enhancements and bug fixes in a port manager component that supervises port operations across all the ports of a N7K switch line card. This component supported line card ASICs of multiple platforms, technologies and port densities* Participate in development of infrastructure and libraries in NXOS for new functionality

• Test Subscriber Management feature of ALU’s service edge routers• Develop a simulation test bed for AT&T’s UVerse network that uses ALU’s service routers and automate Subscriber Management tests on it • Detect and reproduce bugs for development team to fix

Developed infrastructure to create workloads on Virtual Machines (VMs) hosted on a ESX server.Developed web interface to display and analyze results of QA test cases

Studied & implemented technologies like Unlicensed Band Radio and WIMAX. Carried out on-site installation of routers & access switches, fiber splicing and copper cabling. Configuration of administrative, management and security features on Cisco switches & routers was also carried out.