Hariprasad V
IT
Chennai
Summary
Resourceful and skilled Storage Engineer with 15+ years of professional experience in storage testing, SAN/NAS products, OpenStack, Hyper-converged infrastructure, and presales engagement. Expertise in executing proof-of-concept (PoC) solutions, preparing client requirement decks, and creating technical and proposal documentation to drive business success.
Overview
13
13
years of professional experience
8
8
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification
Work History
Infrastructure Engineer
MSys Technologies
06.2023 - Current
- Led proof-of-concept (PoC) initiatives for enterprise clients, demonstrating storage integration capabilities with hypervisors and container platforms
- Developed client requirement decks, translating business needs into technical solutions
- Created technical and proposal documents, including solution architectures and cost-benefit analyses
- Delivered benchmark testing and performance analysis for storage workloads using JMeter, Fio, and Locust
- Collaborated with sales, customer success, and R&D teams to drive storage virtualization, management, and data protection strategies
Technical Architect
MSystems
Chennai
01.2023 - Current
- Collaborated with clients to determine project specifications and scope.
- Resolved complex technical issues by troubleshooting systems, analyzing root causes, and implementing effective fixes.
- Proactively monitored system performance trends to anticipate potential issues before they escalated into larger problems.
- Created comprehensive documentation for system designs, ensuring clarity of purpose and facilitating seamless maintenance activities.
- Delivered high-quality solutions within tight deadlines while adhering to budget constraints.
- Provided technical leadership to team members during system design.
- Mentored junior team members on best practices and technical skills, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
Senior Infrastructure Engineer & (QA)
MSys Technologies
Chennai
06.2021 - 06.2023
- Deploy and maintain Supermicro Testing Environment
- Troubleshoot Test environment and provide Infra limitations to the developers
- Create and provide testbeds, upgrade with latest builds
- Understanding Product requirement documents and reviewing features/design of the product with Developers
- Create Test Plan and execution setup
- Planning the testing activities according to test plan
Sr System Engineer & QA
MSys Technologies
Chennai
03.2020 - 05.2021
- Maintaining Arcserve QA Testing Environment on VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, and Azure
- Deploying and managing VMs, including cloning and resource allocation
- Managing test environments for QA automation and UI development
- Installing, configuring, and maintaining virtual centers and VM tools
- Managing clusters, enabling HA/DRS, and configuring virtual networking
- Handling performance tuning, P2V/V2V conversions, and troubleshooting
- Managing user roles, permissions, and storage (NFS, SAN, VMotion)
- Addressing CPU, memory, disk requests, and resolving datastore space issues
- Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth within the team.
System Engineer
MSys Technologies
06.2016 - 05.2021
- Company Overview: SuperCloud Composer is a composable cloud management platform that provides a unified dashboard to administer software-defined data centers
- Build and maintain QNAP Testing Environment
- Virtualized testing environment running on Esxi host machine, Openstack, Ceph cluster and Ovirt virtualization software
- Create and provide testbeds, upgrade with latest builds
- Troubleshoot Test environment and provide Infra limitations to the developers
- Deploying the New VM from the Template and Cloning an Existing VM as per the client request through change
- Installing, configuring and managing virtual center
- Creating and managing virtual machines and installing VM Tools
- Making sure the VMs are in latest tools, virtual hardware
- Working with the support teams on the performance issues and fine tuning
- P2V and V2V conversions using VMware Converter
- SuperCloud Composer is a composable cloud management platform that provides a unified dashboard to administer software-defined data centers
System Engineer
MSys Technologies
12.2011 - 05.2016
- Supporting the customer at Level 2 support
- Duplicate and documentation customer issues
- Assist Promise customers with setting up, maintaining and troubleshooting their subsystems
- Assist Promise customers with their RAID Storage Subsystems using FIBRE, SAS, SATA, ISCSI, SCSI technology
- Identify, verify and log firmware bugs to development using Promise internal Bug Tracking System
- Maintain and ensure a high level of customer satisfaction
- Responsible for supporting global resellers, system integrators and end-users of Promise made for Mac OSX, Storage Area Network (SAN), and Network Attached Storage (NAS), Direct Attached Storage (DAS, VTrak E and J Class RAID Subsystems)
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Hospital Administration
Kamarajar University
Madurai 06.2005 - 11.2008
MBA - System
Kamarajar University
Madurai 06.2009 - 11.2013
Skills
Certification
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certificate
Timeline
AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional certificate
10-2024
Infrastructure Engineer
MSys Technologies
06.2023 - Current
Technical Architect
MSystems
01.2023 - Current
Senior Infrastructure Engineer & (QA)
MSys Technologies
06.2021 - 06.2023
Sr System Engineer & QA
MSys Technologies
03.2020 - 05.2021
System Engineer
MSys Technologies
06.2016 - 05.2021
System Engineer
MSys Technologies
12.2011 - 05.2016
MBA - System
Kamarajar University
06.2009 - 11.2013
Bachelor of Arts - Hospital Administration
Kamarajar University
06.2005 - 11.2008
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