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Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed custom Object Storage solutions involving multiple sites for enterprise customers.• Lead large migrations involving billions of objects and petabytes of data.• Scoped large custom deals involving solution design and residency.• Planned data center moves involving object storage solutions.• Converted high value POCs that specialized skills, quick adaptability, and improvisation.• Designed and executed cyber recovery testing for Object storage platforms.• Planned non-disruptive ECS network changes involving 3 sites.• Planned capacity expansion in a very large object storage as a service environment.• Planned and executed ECS Tech Refresh simultaneously enabling additional resources. • Supported Product documentation teams for documentation corrections/improvements on Deployment and Migrations.• Reviewed 2 new Education services courses for DataIQ implementation and Administration. • Collaborated with product serviceability teams on processes and procedure improvements for ECS Tech Refresh• Lead scripting/automation team at RDC level to drive innovation efforts across RDCs.• Contributed in development and execution of step-up program that focuses on wholistic growth of individuals. This is under Pilot run in UDS and planned to be launch across organization soon. • Leading the effort to define future ready skills and drive adoption for UDS Team• Delivered Deep dive sessions with live demos on latest technology and complex topics in UDS Tech connect forums with large audience. – IAM, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, TLS.• Assisted resources from other disciplines during integration sessions – DPS integration with UDS. • Represented RDC Team in UDS Discipline/SET calls and cascaded necessary information to the team.• Participated actively in ECS Champions Forum answering questions asked by Technical, PM and Presales resources world-wide.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Developed business case, procedures and trainings for ECS Remote Deployment and converted it from an ‘Onsite only’ activity to a ‘Remote Eligible Activity’, saving significant $$$/year in travel and lodging costs and improving TTV for customers. These procedures were proven highly efficient during covid-19 and were adopted worldwide. Received a Gamechanger Award from senior vice president.• Developed ECS As Built generator tool from scratch using python which is now used by ECS delivery resources worldwide to generate an AsBuilt configuration document for ECS. • Designed and delivered ECS Object Storage deployments involving multiple sites for enterprise customers.• Converted a high value POC that ran for 6 months and required niche skills (Automation/ REST API).• Managed critical situations with very high visibility and significant complexities, impacting large future deals of significant $ value. • Supported third party integrations that were not done before, using the specialized API skills, and helped customers realize full value of our products. • Supported Product documentation team for documentation corrections/improvements on ECS and Data migration documentation and procedures. • Upskilled RDC UDS Team on ECS Intermediate Level via bootcamps. Added 2 Solutions architects and 2 Implementation Delivery Specialist in 3 months.• Contributed 17 new Knowledge base articles, was awarded Top Contributor and Most Viewed Author due to relevance of topics. • Developed a set of python scripts to speed up the object migration cutover duration for 30 million objects from 48 hours to 8 hours. • Lead large migrations involving billions of objects and petabytes of data.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Designed and deployed Single pane of glass reporting for global storage infrastructure in 18 data centres across 6 countries that resulted in reduced TCO, improved chargeback and millions of euros in additional revenue. This was considered a complex yet very well-designed solution and was made reusable. Received gold award. • Developed customized data storage reporting solutions by reusing design principals and accommodating custom requirements to help enterprise customers fully utilize the value of our products. • Excelled at onshore short-term residency solving long pending issues and building solid image of RDC based resources. Received Customer Hero Award for this outstanding onsite performance. • Supported Product documentation teams for documentation corrections/improvements on ViPR SRM. • Learnt a web programming language to solve a specific problem for ED Services POC, secured second prize in Crowd problem solving Competition• Delivered workshops and brown bag sessions and enabled teams on SRM custom reporting skills.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Developed automation framework that reduced the pre cutover prep work for an open replicator-based block data migration from 4 hours to 5 minutes and reducing human errors at the same time. This resulted in 3 consecutive tech refresh opportunity wins.• Automated the storage virtualization software (VPLEX) based data migration for a large insurance provider in North America reducing the effort by 4 folds.

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Performed Block Data Migrations / Tech Refresh involving DMX, VMAX and Clariion Storage arrays and Brocade and Cisco SAN Fabric. • Virtualized the storage infrastructure of a large insurance provider using EMC VPLEX.• Performed data migrations for a large bank in Northern Europe.

Allentown, Pennsylvania Area

• Designed and deployed highly available databases using Oracle RAC Clusters.• Managed Red hat and Sun Solaris servers.• Managed data storge environment based on Dell Compellent, Symmetrix DMX and Clariion disk arrays.• Managed SAN fabric consisting of Brocade SAN switches.• Assisted with troubleshooting server, storage, and SAN related issues.• Managed performance of server, storage, and SAN environment.• Managed datacenter activities for Servers, storage, and SAN products.• Automated system admin tasks using shell scripts.

Raritan, New Jersey, United States

• Managed 2000+ UNIX Servers including high availability cluster solutions like HP MC Service Guard and Veritas Cluster Server.• Completed the upgrade project of Symantec NetBackup software involving 100+ Master/Media servers and 2000 + clients involving 5 different datacenters.• Configured and administered File systems using volume managers like SVM, VxVm, VXFS, HP LVM.• Installed, configured and troubleshooted HP-UX and Solaris Operating systems.• Executed Disaster recovery & Business continuity processes and procedures at regular intervals.• Administered Business copy on HP-UX and Solaris using HP XP12k and 24K Array.• Assisted with LUN provisioning, mapping, masking in EMC Symmetrix & CLARiiON.• Implemented Zoning in highly available SAN environment involving Brocade Switches.• Worked on problem resolution/RCA for server and storage management issues.• Assisted with Performance monitoring, reporting, analysis and troubleshooting in server and storage environments.• Wrote and maintained Shell scripts used for the automation of recurring tasks and operations.• Deployed Oracle RAC Clusters using Veritas Cluster 5.0.• Documented and maintained Run Books, SOP, Work Instructions. • Maintained compliance/regulation procedures - IQ/OQ, SOP, Work Instructions in FDA regulated and SOX environment.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

• Deployed and managed high-end Unix Servers running HP-UX and Sun Solaris.• Deployed and managed data storage on Unix servers using HP LVM and Veritas Volume Manager• Installed and configured Veritas Cluster Server with Veritas Volume Manger for production Oracle Database and HP MC Service Guard Clusters for production Web applications. • Managed software, patches, and performance reporting in production Unix Clusters• Performed backup and recovery of Application/User Data using Veritas NetBackup • Assisted with Performance Tuning, monitoring & troubleshooting of server and storage performance.• Deployed Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Solutions through Business Copy Configuration.• Wrote and managed shell scripts to simplify the jobs according to requirements. • Assisted with problem resolution/RCA for server and storage management issues.

Executive Technical Leadership Program (Techedge), Technical Leadership

Master Of Technology (Mtech), Computer Software Engineering

B. Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

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