Managed Storage Data Layer service and Hardware organizations for OCI Object store.● Responsible for design, development, and maintenance of data layer for OCI for Object store.The system is currently managing more than 3EB of customer data.● Worked with the team to design next gen Zoned Storage based data layout for upcoming SMRdrives. This solution could reduce the TTFB for data access to less than half..● Owned for all hardware planning, selection, and qualification for the Object Store.● Managed SRE org for OCI Object store. This team is distributed between US, UK and India providing site reliability 24x7.

As a part of Enterprise Storage R&D Team, I managed HW Analytics and AI, drove technology design and execution for HPE Primera product-line. My responsibilities include all technical decisions regarding data engineering and analysis to improve customer experience. I was also responsible for technical decisions regarding SSD, NVMe and HDD Technologies. This included Vendor relationships and feild data analytics.● Built hardware analytics and AI team for improving HPE field experience● Successfully transitioned the team from Waterfall to Agile Scrum● Able to hire, motivate, empower and retain key talent in a high attrition environment● Built data analytics based product selection process and improved efficiency by more than 50%

Responsible for Block level data protection via SnapMirror and SnapVault technologies. Managed a team of 30 reports with two first line managers. Designed and implemented an automation framework titled FLO. This Framework was recognized for its innovative execution model that dramatically reduced overall test times.● FLO brought test execution time down from multiple weeks to hours● Designed ELK based data analysis system and reinvented the Test analysis processes

• Responsible for translating business objectives to operational plans. Deliver high quality storage solutions with budget constraints.• Establish new and improve existing product quality process based on effective acceptance criteria, test strategy, and continuous improvement.• Build and expand the team, manage budget, and create and implement functional strategies for delivering reliable products.

Engineering contribution towards DeDuplication, Archive with Blue Ray Devices. Created a Virtual Tape Library solution.

• Managed a geographically distributed team of engineers located at Fremont, Pittsburgh, and India.• Established key metrics to measure the outbound quality and improved it by 50%.• Established processes based on effective acceptance criteria for timely delivery of quality products.• Saved Panasas $110,000 per year by automation of custom coed port creation process. • Delivered three major and 10 minor product releases on time and within budget.

• Manage all aspects of product development and service delivery. Planning and execution of production release for disaster recovery service.• Establish strategic direction of software development processes and responsible for complete software development lifecycle. Delivered on-time, on-budget releases for service solution.

• Managed several aggressive projects; delivering on time and within budget.• Cross-site management between Palo Alto and India. • Increased employee morale significantly, fixed hiring problem and brought attrition rate down by 40%.• Streamlined Dev and QA process and bootstrap automation and performance analysis tools.• Worked closely with Product Management to drive product strategy.• Created Solidcore’s support system to track and effectively resolve customer issues. Successfully reduced case resolution time by 50%.

• Established India development facility for Teneros USA. Responsibilities included setting up offices, interface with Marketing, IT, Finance, Product Management, HR and Support to ensure seamless communication between Teneros US and Teneros India.• Hire, manage, and direct highly technical Engineering teams to successfully deliver the first release of the appliance on schedule and budget. • Plan and execute QA automation effort and brought testing time down to half.

• Managed engineering relationships with OEM partners, such as Brocade (initially Rhapsody) and CISCO, to port Alacritus solution inside SAN storage switches using XPATH and Data Tap. • Member of Architecture team; designed and developed VTLA and CDP technologies. • Responsible for performance optimization, Web interface, Virtual device creation, debugging, and host based client SOFTWARE.

Engineering Manager • Managed a team of 15 team leads and engineers and successfully delivered 4 releases of Celestra. The product guaranteed exceptional performance over SAN without using server cycles by direct device-to-device data transfer using SCSI extended copy.• Hired and developed an effective proactive Engineering team• Mentoring and guiding engineers to resolve technical issues.• Designed and developed Celestra integration with Networker using NDMP. Member of Core Team (Intelliguard Software, acquired by Legato Systems)• Managed a team of three engineers to develop file system parsers for block level backup.• Led the engineering team and delivered backup product BudTurbo. • Delivered maintenance releases of BudTool Enterprise backup solution.

• Wrote the device driver for NCR53C825 chip-based SCSI card.• Designed and developed EzStart – Infocom’s SCSI card detection and driver installation software.