Charu Kale

• PowerStore: A next-generation unified storage platform. Contributed to the file storage domain, focusing on NAS protocols (NFS/SMB), file system operations and snapshot management to deliver high performance and reliable enterprise storage solutions.
• Technical Leadership: Led a team of five engineers in triaging, analyzing, and fixing bugs. As part of it, diagnosed and resolved a critical multithreading issue.
• Feature Development: Engineered and implemented new product features, including Quality of Service (QoS) and API redirection for multi-appliance storage environments.
• Spearhead scalability initiatives: Currently leading a PoC to optimize API architecture, combining snapshot creation and attachment into a single call to significantly improve efficiency and reduce latency.
• Quality Assurance: Ensured high code quality and reliability by developing comprehensive unit tests, utilizing IntelliJ, GitHub, Copilot and Codium.
• Hackathon: Participated in a hackathon focused on the development of a GenAI-powered framework for template-based functional test automation, reducing effort by 66%.

Responsibilities:

• Engineered and deployed new product features and resolved critical bugs, enhancing application stability and user experience.
• Showcased technical deliverables to stakeholders and cross-functional teams during sprint reviews to gather feedback and ensure alignment.

Responsibilities:

• Designed and developed new features in ultrasound applications.
• Performed automation testing for the features using unit tests, functional tests, and integration tests.
• Contributed to release planning, worked with PMs in gathering and understanding the feature requirements, and prioritizing them for release.
• Presented developed features in sprint demos, as well as in feature fairs.
• Exposure to working with GIT and Azure DevOps.
• Participated in various design discussions with leads and senior engineers.
• Currently working on a new project, Rhythm, revamping the existing ultrasound application by implementing new architecture and frameworks to make it more performant and fast.
• Participated in multiple hackathons: Customize UI in Hackathon '19, HighQ PSV, and invalid cycle detection in Hackathon '20.