Leading the sustaining team for the Intelliflash range of products. Solving product issues from protocol SMB, NFS, iSCSI, FC to the platform by working closely with production, tech-support, PS etc.

Helping the team to move to Agile methodology for development and architecting solution for transition from private cloud to public cloud. Creating a strategy to improve customer experience.

• Lead release of Oracle leading scalable and secured storage ZS products, including ZS7-2, ZS5-4, ZS5-2, ZS5-ES, ZS4-4, ZS3-4, ZS3-2 for various application including OCI Block and Object Storage• Spearhead engineering team efforts to develop various features for Oracle’s leading storage appliance product, ZFSSA, worth over $1B in annual revenue • Led a team of software engineers to develop features in AK software (in C/C++) of ZS products, such as auto upgrades, security fixes, eSMART features, SSD installation rules in chassis, and backend reliability improvements• Led a team of hardware engineers to create a policy for secured firmware upgrade and resetting the system to clean state for new deployment.• Led the Enterprise HDD and SSD qualification effort from Functional and System level testing in various drive chassis and servers. • Facilitate continuous improvement by developing First Article Inspection (FAI) process and deviation requests and owning Production Validation Testing (PVT) process• Reviewed technology at a VP level, outlining risks of major hardware and software features and recommending mitigation strategies prior to release• Led the product team by continously growing and developing both technical and soft skills of each member• Investigated outage, performance, and security issues at key customer locations such as AT&T, Wells Fargo, JPMC, etc.; gathered an understanding of system architecture to identify design flaws and deliver a solution. • Resolved 2 major stop-shipment issues in production within 1-2 days by analyzing manufacturing data and identifying root cause to propose a solution, resulting in company cost savings of $1.2M• Created an automated process to triage backend issues being escalated to PDE, enabling more efficient resolution, cost savings, and earlier exposure to bugs• Mentor and train SEs, FEs, and TSEs by exchanging information and sharing expertise

• Very good knowledge on ISCSI, FC, SAS, SAN, NAS, Object Storage offerings for Cloud and On-Premise solutions• Led Flash Memory Engineering Team to develop and integrate flash-based devices, to qualify products for company wide deployments• Developed software to smoothly integrate flash-based devices into company products• Developed a plan to recruit and transfer engineers to the flash engineering team and invested in comprehensive training on flash technology• Assessed issues with flash technology (firmware instability, volatility in price) to identify future requirements• Released and sustained enterprise and mid-range array products developed by third-parties (Engenio, Hitachi Data Systems, Dothill) for more than 5 years• Created comprehensive plans for prioritizing RFEs (Request for Enhancements) in system management software • Led the OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) storage team in partnership with an engineering team to respond to product feature issues for the company OEM storage product worth $1B in annual revenue• Took the lead in virtualizing all Sun storage products behind 99xx controllers• Internally sourced components for Sun OEM storage solution to improve profit margins• Led a team of engineers to release and sustain company developed storage products, including the controller firmware for 6900, T4, T3A/B, A5200, A110 • Oversaw release and maintenance of real time operating system pSOS from WindRiver after Sun Microsystems bought the source code rights (both T4 and T3A/B were based on pSOS)• Served as an escalation manager, successfully resolving complex customer issues at an engineering level, retaining lucrative clients that brought multi-million-dollar orders for the company• Led a team to take ownership of T3A product to address reoccurring high priority issues faced by customers; improved the algorithm for a failing battery and developed 2 troubleshooting guides for future reference

• Led high performance Sales Engineers, selling into Enterprise accounts in Telecommunication and EnR (Education and Research) market• Selling Storage, Systems and Networking unique solutions to multi-million accounts by architecting both client-server and web-based multi-tiered solutions• Oversaw presale system engineering and benchmarking for enterprise solutions• Secured multi-million sales with large businesses including VSNL, DOT, Bharti Telecom, CDAC, and ISRO • Contributed in architecting India's first Internet backbone by participating in a technical committee of industry leading engineers