• Tech lead for geographical disperse teams of approx. 50 engineers• Maintained technological roadmap for the SNaP component working in conjunction with NIC/HBA vendors, chief product architect & technologists• Spearheaded IaaS or multi-tenancy initiative within the business unit under the guidance of office of EMC CTO -- Led the architecture and design of the multiple network namespaces piece of the multi-tenancy project -- Ran a cross-functional development team across multiple time zones to deliver on the project• Organized tech forums & technology summits to disseminate technical knowledge and to provide an environment for innovation• Led the design effort on LINUX user/kernel zero-copy interface and Multi-threaded Streams leading to linear scalability of network performance across multiple cores/sockets. [** Sustained commitment & effort recognition from Division VP **]• Designed 'Layer3 failover (l3fo)'​, a Link Management solution, which provided the competitive edge leading to a revenue of ~10M$.• Delivered on business unit's 'open-source'​ strategy [** Excellence@EMC Gold R&R award **] -- Presented new LINUX-based (in lieu of proprietary OS) front-end networking architecture using Streams/Socket interface & road map to system architects/upper management, -- Scoped the effort and worked with stakeholders to adopt the new architecture for an earlier product release than it was originally intended, and later on -- Tech lead geographically disperse cross-functional development teams, & assisted program management and test organization to successfully complete the project

• Led initiatives to improve performance and general hardening of the network stack by utilizing hardware assists & re-architecting components leading to a more usable and well-performing product.• Developed Broadcom 5771x 10G & Mellanox 40G device drivers for proprietary DART OS to enable faster network speeds in the product [** EMC NAS Engineering MVP award **]• Designed & implemented Large Receive Offload, a stateless TCP/IP offload feature, speeding up inbound throughput of high-bandwidth network connections by three(x3) folds.• Managed NIC vendor relationships efficiently to keep surprises to a minimum, keeping various programs on track.• Developed prototypes & fixed hot customer issues to either win customer accounts from competition or to maintain existing customers. [** Excellence@EMC Silver/Bronze R&R awards **]• Spearheaded various 'Tiger teams' to resolve critical issues and thereby rescuing the programs from derailment & potential revenue loss.• Provided technical consultations and mentored new / junior engineers.

• As a lead developer, developed support for replication, mount, un-mount & restore on various disk arrays using Microsoft VSS/VDS framework and exposed them as APIs for the consumption of other EMC and non-EMC products. [**Engineering Performance Incentive Plan (EPIP) award **]• Designed, developed and tested cluster-aware replication management software; unearthed Microsoft's Cluster software bugs and obtained hot fixes• Provided support for Windows dynamic disks in the product using Veritas Volume Manager, VxVM v3.0/3.1• Designed and implemented multi-state replica model for replica life-cycle management along with job parallelism & FIFO execution [** Sustained commitment & effort recognition from Division SVP **]• Ported the replication management server software from Solaris platform to Windows for customers with Microsoft-only technologies.• Technically supported initial product customers and successfully fulfilled their requirements; the adoption & endorsement of whom was essential for the success of the product [** Customer Service ‘Level 4’ award **]• Trained engineers, customer service professionals on Microsoft VSS/VDS technology

• Developed, enhanced, rewrote pieces of EMC Data Manager (EDM) to support backup and restore of new features in Windows 2000/Windows 2003 [** Software Engineering Platinum award **]• Ported EDM client software to additional UNIX-based platforms to enable backup & restore via EDM server• Functionally tested new compression feature in the product that reduced network bandwidth between EDM server and clients