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Johny Vincent

B Block, G003, Malibu Rising City, Chennasandra, Bengaluru

Summary

Dynamic Technical Leader with extensive experience in NVMe and PCIe technologies. Proven track record in developing robust test automation frameworks and debugging NVMe performance issues. Skilled in mentoring teams, driving continuous improvement in product quality and reliability. Proven people and technical leader having owned and delivered multiple End to End NVMe releases.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Associate Technical Director

Samsung Electronics
07.2024 - Current
  • Led a team of 8 members to qualify the first QLC based Client NVMe SSD that was driven out of Bangalore
  • Performed FMEA analysis of field issues and increased test coverage thus enhancing test coverage by an additional 40%.
  • Performed real world workload profiling to understand their impact on WAF, performance and power that helped to optimize the FW policies to meet customer requirements with less TAT and also helped reduce field issues by 30%.
  • As a technical leader and manager, was responsible for project and resource planning, risk assessment and making release decisions.
  • Led a team of 4 engineers to develop performance automation that reduced TAT for performance tests by 85%

Principal Engineer

Samsung Electronics
11.2015 - 06.2024
  • Led the efforts for the development of a system/functional test automation framework for qualifying NVMe drives that brought down the FW qualification cycle from 3 weeks down to less than 1 week.
  • Responsible for the creation of test plan, test strategy and ensuring complete test coverage and no test miss.
  • Leading efforts for application engineering of real world cloud workloads to study long term reliability and performance behavior of SSDs in the cloud.
  • Work closely with the product planning team to understand new features, review field issues and customer joint qualification plans to enhance test coverage

Member of Technical Staff

Netapp
10.2011 - 10.2015
  • Responsible for the design and develpment of system tests with focus on Data Ontap features like High Availability, WAFL, RAID and Data  Protection. 
  • In the role of a CIT(Continuous Integration test) Sheriff, was responsible for development, maintenance and trouble shooting of Continuous Integration Tests.
  • Worked with feature planning and development teams to understand new features and develop testcases and fill-in test coverage gaps in every Data Ontap release.  
  • Responsible for test log analysis of nightly system tests and debug Data Ontap system, host and application.  
  • Mentoring engineers in the team.

Software Quality Engineer

EMC^2
09.2007 - 10.2011
  • Analyze use cases, SRS and accrodingly create test plans and design testcases in every release of Replication Manager.
  • Involved n the configuration of testbeds, which includes configuring OS, databases, provisioning luns from EMC storage arrays.
  • Execute testcases, report bugs and follow up with developers regularly to bring the bugs to a closure.
  • Follow Scrum process, actively planning for every sprint and attending standup meetings.  
  • Handle multiple product releases(Main and Service Packs) simultaneously and assume complete end-to-end test ownership for assigned features

Education

Master of Science - Software Systems

BITS Pilani
Pilani
04-2012

B.Tech - Computer Science

Model Engineering College
Cochin
04-2007

Skills

Hard Skills

  • Python
  • Operating Systems (Windows, Linux)
  • NVMe, PCIe
  • MongoDB, PostGresql
  • Kubernetes, Docker
  • Jira, Confluence, Git
  • Data Protection and Recovery
  • Risk assessment
  • FMEA

Soft Skills

  • Project management
  • Strategic decisions
  • People management

Accomplishments

  • Quarterly award at Samsung September 2021

Awarded for leading development of system test framework for NVMe SSDs

  • Quarterly award at Samsung June 2019

Awarded for my efforts towards qualifying our Data Center NVMe on a time critical project, which helped to secure a business deal

  • Spot award at Netapp May 2013

Awarded for proactively assuming ownership of Continuous Integration test at Netapp, within a short notice

Certification

AWS Solutions Architect Associate July 2023

Timeline

Associate Technical Director

Samsung Electronics
07.2024 - Current

Principal Engineer

Samsung Electronics
11.2015 - 06.2024

Member of Technical Staff

Netapp
10.2011 - 10.2015

Software Quality Engineer

EMC^2
09.2007 - 10.2011

Master of Science - Software Systems

BITS Pilani

B.Tech - Computer Science

Model Engineering College

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