Vikram Desai Email & Phone Number

San Jose, Ca, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

-Led a multi-year NPI initiative of a cutting-edge 1.0 shared-nothing scale-out Fast-Object store platform rooted in the robust capabilities of the Kubernetes control plane with collaboration across 22+ work streams, 150+ engineers and 4+ program managers.-Collaborated with Architects, Technologists, and Product leads to plan and scope MVP into demonstrable Potential Shippable Increments (PSI).-Scripted detailed planning format for 20+ work streams, ensuring alignment with Acceptance Criteria and lateral dependencies.-Accelerated development through Simulator Program, reducing hardware-related delays, advancing delivery by 7 months and reducing Capex spend by $XXM.-Enhanced tracking efficiency with Jira advanced roadmaps, helping shortern dependency turn-around times by 25%.-Piloted a "Release Qualification Framework" to improve the speed and predictability of NPI program. Impact: Reduced backend test SLO from 11 weeks to 6 weeks.-Defined a BAIT (Basic Acceptance Integration Test) strategy, boosting main branch stability and reducing branch locks by over 40%.-Achieved 30% faster SLO to achieve General Availability through a "wide-shallow" strategy with Product support to enable faster adoption for Nimble releases-Successfully executed impactful key releases for the Nimble product line, incorporating essential features such as enabling the Data-Services cloud console for Nimble Arrays, facilitating online FW updates, and delivering DHCI solutions to a diverse install base of over 35K deployments.

Santa Clara, California, Us

-Accomplished significant milestone releases, seamlessly integrating pivotal functionalities including Dedupe, Stretch Cluster, and Datera2Object (D2O) – an innovative snapshot-dependent remote backup and restoration solution hosted on a public cloud blob store.-Defined clear branching strategy and guidelines for Feature, Maintenance, and Hot-patch releases.Managed migration of in-house analytics to Kubernetes with Datera CSI, improving resource efficiency by 50%.-Owned OEM Partner Enablement, driving $5M revenue increase through channel partner engagement.-Developed "Feature: Get Well Plan," reducing escalations by 40% and enhancing recurrent sales.-Commenced the implementation of a Go-to-Production initiative for cloud-native platforms involving the deployment of Datera CSI and Ansible Modules to facilitate Tier-1 customer workload management.

Austin, Texas, Us

Engineered features and sustained efforts for Enterprise Communications Broker, simplifying complex VoIP and unified communications networks.

Cambridge, Ma, Us

NetStorage provides a mechanism for storing data on the backend to augment mirroring,striping of large files across multiple machines.– Worked on additional enhancements for Integrity Checking,Recovery and Migration on Netstorage.– Automate troubleshooting solutions/Alarm management into permanent parts of the Akamai Netstorage via code changes in components, additional monitoring, increased capacity.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Contributed to Cisco UCS Manager, enabling automation and scalability in server operations.

San Jose, Ca, Us

Interned in the UCS Manager product for server access and virtualization business unit. I was responsible to learn about the UCSM architecture and to integrate Mellanox Network Interface cards to be managed by UCS manager. It involved embedded development as well as understanding the facets of interaction at various levels of the system.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Developed a system that uses voice as a medium to percolate knowledge through the thick layers of illiteracy, thereby serving as an effective mechanism to bring about a paradigm shift in the way SHGs are formed, operate and interact with the Micro-finance Institution (MFI). This system enables low cost financial services to be comprehended and adopted by the SHGs while empowering them to raise concerns and undertake active participation. This kind of empowerment of SHGs is unseen till date and can lead to, especially in case of women, better representation in elections of local panchayats, dowry upliftment and other social advancements, not understating the success of MFIs.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Setup of OSPF router network on Blade Cluster Architecture. Each Blade acts as a router to route information from gateways. This was achieved utilizing routing table from Ipsilon networks .It wassetup to support the Lawful Interception Gateway Application.Test Automation Framework : Build Automation, setup regression test environment.Analysis of cluster performance regarding TCP traffic and load balancing functionalities.(TCPThroughput )Indepth Analysis and Functional Testing of SS7 STACK in Flexiplatform Developed a TestBed inventory tool in java.Developed LDAP configurations for SIGTRAN stack applications.Involved in development of Transport Layer Security for SIGTRAN stack applications.

Certification, Product Management

Master Of Science, Computer Networks

Be, Computer Science And Engineering