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
Storage Protocols
Zoning
RAID Controller Testing
Object Storage
OpenStack
VMware ESXi
vCenter
AWS
Azure
Cloud infrastructure management
Data center operations
Containerization technologies
Virtualization technologies
Proposal creation
Configuration management
System administration
Team building
Storage area network management
Infrastructure development
System testing
Hardware troubleshooting
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