Senthil Kumar V. Email & Phone Number

Bangalore

• Project -1:- The NVMe-oF Hardware off-loaded SmartNIC Development.======================================================It is a NVMe-oF hardware offloaded SmartNIC which acts as bridge b/w NVMe-oF and NVMe in target.
• Architected and designed the “Hardware Root-Of-Trust [RoT]” & “TLS security” solutions for this NVMe-oF SmartNIC.
• Architected and designed a “Discovery” feature for this Initiator mode NVMe-oF SmartNIC card to support the Management Plane tools.
• Working on critical customer escalations & high priority release issues.Project -2:- Composable and Disaggregated NVMe-oF All-Flash-Array (AFA) SAS based JBoD.
• Architected and designed the “Storage Block Virtualization” stack for OpenFlex with features like NVMe-over-TCP, FUSE’d commands, dynamic growing of volumes etc.,
• Architected and designed a “Non-disruptive data-migration solution for OpenFlex” products.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Project:- ClusterStor Management Solution (CSM).===================================== The ClusterStor is a storage product architectured for High-Performance Computing (HPC) domain. The ClusterStor Management (CSM) is.
• My primary responsibility is to own and enhance the nodes-monitor module which is responsible for monitoring health-status, power-status, file-system status etc., of all the nodes in a scale-out ClusterStor environment.
• I've initiated and implemented a project called ClusterStor Logging Framework (a.k.a. CLF) which enables distributed module-based logging using Linux's SyslogNg framework.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Project:- Distributed Scale-Out SCSI Target Development in Clustered DataONTAP.============================================================== The SCSI target module is a distributed kernel component in the scale-out.
• My primary responsibility is to drive road-map of SCSI target modules’ end-to-end data-plane across various releases by collaborating with geographically distributed teams.
• I’ve worked on projects that addresses distribute processing challenges. They are “Logical Unit Group Resync”, “Cluster Partition Tolerance”, “Bulk Volume Mobility” enhancements etc.,
• I’ve involved in resolving various critical customer escalation issues by providing short-term solutions & long term fixes to improve overall product quality.* I’ve also worked along with NetApp’s T10 representative in.
• I’ve taken responsibility to hire & ramp up new team members for SCSI-Target module & mentored them to achieve team goals.
• I’ve also worked as a primary review approver of architecture/design specifications for various projects that involves SCSI target module.* I've also worked in NetApp's legacy 7-mode SAN product as a SCSI-target.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Project: Linux Open-Source Multipath Development.====================================== The “Multipath’g” is a host based high-availability software solution that ensures fault tolerance by managing multiple paths in a.
• I’ve worked as a “Open Source Co-coordinator” with Novell and RedHat teams.
• My responsibility is to work with HP array product teams to collect & understand the requirements for various releases and plan the project & leading the team for on-time delivery of multipathing solutions for disk.
• Designed & implemented product features like “Least pending I/O path load balancing policy” etc.,
• I’ve also handled customer escalations and ensured resolution within stipulate SLA.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Project: Sync-Mirroring Solution for an iSCSI Product.======================================= The “sync-mirroring” is a high availability feature of a storage array. The HA is achieved by synchronously.
• My responsibility is to own “Sync-Mirroring” feature.
• I had taken additional responsibility to implement Persistent Reservation (PR) feature for a snap server products.

Bengaluru Area, India

• Project 1: Storage Tape Library Virtualization Development.===========================================Technology:- Storage Tape Library Virtualization, Storage Data Back-up, SCSI protocol. The “VSM Open” is the product.
• I had worked in a kernel module called “TDE (Tape Drive Emulation)”. The main functionality of this module is to emulate the behaviour of the real tape drive. All the drive related SCSI commands are handled in this.
• I’ve primarily involved in development of this TDE thru various releases. I’d also worked in client specific enhancements for this module including designing new requirements.Project 2: FCIP Storage Protocol.
• I had involved in FCIP stack development and contributed in coding, bug fixing etc.,