Anjali Gupta

Currently, I am working as a subject matter expert for Data Protection solutions, and I am responsible for managing/building multiple data protection solutions with FlashBlade and FlashArray. I am an integral part of the solutions team, holding the fort in interacting with the field sales team, customers and building solutions with partners integration. So far worked on following solutions :

• Security - Integration of Pure Storage Flash Array with various SIEM and SOAR solutions (Logrhythm, Qradar and Fortinet) .
• Data Protection - Integration of Pure Storage Flash Array and Flash Blade with various backup applications (Veeam, Commvault and Veritas)
• Mentored junior architects and developers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and skill development within team.

Currently working as Product Owner for system test team of Data Domain. Data Domain offers scalable, cloud-ready protection storage for backup, archive, long-term cloud retention and modern disaster recovery.

Roles and Responsibilities :

• Develop and execute detailed product roadmap for system testing using agile methodology.
• Work & co-ordinate with cross functional teams such as sales, engineering and customer support teams
• Responsible for translating product roadmap Into manageable product backlogs for Iterative software version delivery
• Managed implementation of new features by outlining plans and specifications such as how, where and when each component would work.
• Delivering demos to customer for new feature enhancements of product

Key Accomplishments :

• Lead the effort of enabling product sizing for a key opportunity ($5 Million). It helped recreate some key data sets that modeled the workloads specifically for customer and helped PM and Sales team in making a strong pitch for our solutions.
• Represented Data Domain product in conversation with channel partners from Europe, understood the challenges that they are facing in product quality and planned the action items for resolving those issues.
• Introduced new data management method in private cloud which resulted in saving storage cost and test execution time (up to 20%).

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Lead system test and functional test team for various components like Replication, high availability, archiving policies, LTR2C (Long term retention to cloud) for Data Domain. Regular activities involved test planning, test case designing, test execution, filing and analyzing bugs and mentoring team.

• Worked as System test engineer for SONAS team.
  Scale Out Network Attached Storage (SONAS) is easy-to-install, turnkey, modular, scaled out-NAS solution that provides performance, clustered scalability, high availability, and functionality that are essential to meeting strategic Petabyte Age and cloud storage requirements. (May 2012 - May 2014)
• Was working as quality engineer for AIX-Unix Product Testing team. (Jan 2010 - April 2012)
• As fresher joined JAVA - zLinux (mainframe) Performance verification testing team. (Dec 2005 - Dec 2009)