San Jose, California, United States
Accomplished Senior Technical Leader, hands on Engineer with 8+ US patents and a wide variety of skills in Networking/Storage Systems, Cloud systems, Distributed systems, Operating systems, Virtualization and open source technologies. Recognized for technical leadership designing and building network, storage, cloud and distributed systems. Wide-ranging experiences include proven ability to design and lead the innovative projects. CORE COMPETENCIES Technical Concepts * Agile Development * Organizational Effectiveness * Cross-Functional Team Leadership Network Systems * Storage Systems * Cloud systems * Distributed Systems * Embedded Systems Networking Technologies * Ethernet/TCP/IP * Software Defined Network (SDN)* High availability * X86 C * C++ * Python * Go language * Scripting * Virtualization * Data Center switching, routing * Linux Kernel * Device Drivers HIGHLIGHTS * Designed and developed Network and Storage systems from concept to delivery. * Vast experience working with control plane-data plane architectures. * Proven track record in execution: successfully led projects from concept phase to delivery and maintenance. * Strong team player with the ability to contribute in fast paced environments. Provided leadership and guidance to huge teams across Business Units and geographies. * Designated as the Product Person with a passion to build products and solve problems for customers. * Possesses extensive experience collaborating with customers, partners and cross-functional teams.
Grainite, Converged Streaming Application Platform. Architected and Implemented the heart of the Grainite system, Grainite cluster, which provides cluster consensus with Raft protocol and key/value metadata store database with watch capability for all the internal components of the Grainite system. Architected and Implemented the REST API interface for the Grainite system. Worked on GRPC client communication and system monitoring for the Grainite system.
o Architected and executed Network High Availability and Cloud/Network Infrastructure for the Stellus Key-Value over Fabrics All Flash Network Attached Storage system. o Point person for all the Platform Infrastructure, Cloud/Network Infrastructure and Network Performance work. Environment: C, C++, Python, Linux Kernel, Ethernet/TCP/IP, ROCE, RDMA, AWS Cloud, Azure cloud, ECMP load balancer, KVM, containers, OSPF, BGP, Distributed/Clustered systems.
Architected and executed Next Generation Platform and Network Infrastructure for the multi-site multi-exabyte scale object storage system. Enhanced System scalability from multi-petabyte to multi-exabyte. o Lead a team of 10 Software Engineers as a Product Owner in Agile process. Designed and developed the Linux Kernel and Networking infrastructure for WD ActiveScale on-premises (Private Cloud) Object Storage System with AWS S3 compatible and File interfaces, distributed, purpose-built to easily store and manage petabyte-scale data growth, spanned across multiple geographical locations and provides the foundation for Simplicity at Scale data that requires long term retention with easy and fast retrieval. o Designated as the point person for Infrastructure work and filed 4 patents in Distributed/Network Systems technologies. Environment: C, Shell Scripting, Python, Go language, Linux Kernel, Ethernet/TCP/IP, Distributed/Network systems, SDN, VxLAN, ECMP load balancing, BGP, FRRouting, Quagga . o Designed and developed WD Hyper Converged Infrastructure using Openstack, Linux containers for Bigdata analytics. Filed 3 patents in the Hyper Converged Infrastructure technologies. o Served as a member on the Patent Revision Group to review other patent disclosures across the company. Environment: Python, Shell Scripting, Openstack, LXC/LXD containers, Linux Kernel, Ethernet/TCP/IP, RDMA. o Designed and developed the Kernel infrastructure for Next Generation High Density All Flash Enterprise Storage Array. Executing and leading a team for developing Kernel infrastructure for a high available dual controller High Density All Flash Enterprise Storage Array. Environment: C, Scripting, Linux Kernel, Network/PCI device drivers, Ethernet/TCP/IP.
o Designed and developed the infrastructure, Linux PCI Device drivers for securely initializing, authenticating and decrypting the Flash blades in the High Density All Flash Enterprise Storage appliance. Filed a patent in embedded systems technologies. Environment: C, Shell Scripting, Linux Kernel, PCI device drivers, ARM, x86.