Head of Engineering, India

• Jul 2023 - Present

Engineering Leader

• Mar 2017 - Present

Product: Enterprise/Scale-Out/Cloud Storage Played key role in Establishing India Storage team as NAS Unstructured Data CoE. Built the team from the scratch. Lead the India File System Team to develop Scale-out NAS Product from scratch. Developed File System Meta-Data Layer, File system operations ( create/delete/rename/truncate etc.), Core Infrastructure components ( Distributed Transactions, Feature Log), Value added services ( Quota, Dtree, WORM ), Performance features ( Bloom Filters, Cache) . Product supports the interworking of file, object and HDFS unstructured data storage services Responsible for Scale-out NAS project to achieve ultimate performance (IOPS , Bandwidth) for HPC/HPDA workloads. Handled meta-data scenario's performance optimizations.. Product achieved Top-2 ranking in IO-500 competition. IO-500 is a standard way to compare different storage vendors performance for HPC workload and ratings are published twice in a year. Elite Team Leader : Lead Elite team of Storage Experts focusing on BRC Strategic Plan ( 3 ~ 5 years), Technical Insights on leading storage technologies, Product Level Innovation ideas, driving innovation in the team, Research paper study etc. Built the innovation culture in the team and achieved extraordinary results in 2021. Academia Collaboration: 3 Technical Collaboration projects with Indian and Singapore Universities in the direction of Non-Volatile Persistent Memory, smart-NIC for High Performance File Systems, Compiler for Persistent Memory. Technical Research: Established collaboration with Shanghai R&D Centre solving the key problem of Global Collaboration in ‘Follow the Sun’ scenario in eventually consistent Global File Systems. Developed breakthrough technologies for distributed locks and dynamic prefetch using Rule based algorithms for higher performance. Lead the India Protocol team for OceanStor V5 Product. Delivered NFS 4.1 stack. Value Added Features: Auto-Tiering & Third Party Plugin Interface ( TPPI ). Show less

Directory Engineering

• Sep 2012 - Feb 2017

Platform: Huawei IP platform for Huawei Base Station/RNC Responsible for setting up the cross functional team and lead the delivery from India team. Lead R&D teams across multiple sub platforms - iPSI (Security enabling platform), VISP (IP platform for Wireless products), SSP (Platform abstraction system) Driven technology planning and research projects to support various products to build competitiveness and comply with various security requirements as per 3GPP Lead the Platform Security task force to perform penetration test for IPSEC-IKE component in IP Stack. Extensive secure code reviews and Huawei in-house developed tool was used to simulate message construction, sending the messages and exploit the attack. Vulnerabilities found were fixed and new patch was provided to customers. As a result of this Quality improvement activity got ZERO defect from external third party security certification. Practiced Agile & Lean Software Engineering Practices and demonstrated the benefits to various stakeholders across the organization. Improved team capability through various initiatives. Created knowledge management system (KM) for continuous learning and growth. Received appreciation for the best KM from Business Line President Built the VOC team and setup mechanism to generate insights on user pain points & specific actions to improve feedback. Consistently maintained high feedback over the years with ZERO Software Accidents. Achieved CSI (Customer Satisfaction Index) above 4.5 out of 5 consistently. Set extraordinary Quality standards and set-up the Quality Improvement Plan for Risky components and achieved no major defects post release. Received multiple awards and appreciation from Customers and Product Line Medal for exceptional business achievement. Show less

Senior Software Engineer

• Jan 2000 - Mar 2002

Client: Lucent Technologies, India Product: AnyMedia Access System Designed and developed the Mediation Server Software. This layer is above the AnyMedia Element Management System ( EMS) to provide standardized North-bound interface to Network Management System ( NMS) for FCAPS (Fault, Configuration, Accounting, Performance, Security) functionality. Designed and developed the SNMP and TL1 Agent interfaces for the AnyMedia EMS. Performed the System Test using MIB browser. Developed the Mediation Layer GUI to test the features of the AnyMedia EMS. Client: Huawei Technologies India Private Limited Product: Huawei SoftSwitch Designed and developed the mediation layer software for Configuration, Containment and System Monitor service. Mediation layer interfaces with SoftSwitch Call Server and ESN components and is triggered from NMS GUI. Played the Customer Interface role for the Mediation layer software System Integration Test with SoftSwitch CS & ESN components at the client side. Technology: TMN Standards, NMS, EMS, SoftSwitch, DSLAM, SNMP, TL1, Façade Design Pattern, Object Oriented Design Software: CORBA, IDL, C, C++, Java Swing (GUI) Show less

Research Engineer

• Sep 1998 - Dec 2000

Company Vision: Computer Assisted Surgery Developed Image Processing algorithms like Segmentation Scan the X-Ray images and locate the abnormalities within the image. Skills: Image Processing Algorithms Company Vision: Computer Assisted Surgery Developed Image Processing algorithms like Segmentation Scan the X-Ray images and locate the abnormalities within the image. Skills: Image Processing Algorithms