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Narmada Pasala
Data center Validation Engineer
Bengaluru,KA
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Semiconductor validation and platform engineering professional with 15+ years of experience and lately served Intel corporation. Proven track record in fleet validation, customer deployment readiness, and feature qualification across enterprise and cloud data center platforms with expertise on platform, SoC,storage and memory domains. Strong record of driving release quality and successful silicon milestone execution. Looking forward to contributing in the role of staff engineer or principal engineer or validation and debug specialist or technical lead or Engineering management positions.
Overview
14
years of professional experience
4
Languages
Work History
Intel Data Center Customer and Systems Engineering GroupBangalore, Karnataka
SOC Power& Performance Validation & Debug Engineer
2025.08 - 2026.08 (1 education.year_Label)
Job overview
- Led post-silicon power and performance validation across 5+ Intel Xeon server programs, focusing on performance KPI validation and power management features.
- Defined KPI-driven validation strategies, reduced benchmark bring-up time by approximately 50% through containerized environments, and improved debug turnaround by 20% through automation and optimized planning.
- Resolved 5+ customer-reported power and performance issues using Intel PTU, EMON, SPECCPU, and Intel MLC, while developing automation frameworks that expanded validation coverage across Linux and Windows.
- Reduced project completion time with efficient resource allocation and effective communication strategies.
- Trained and mentored junior engineers, providing guidance and direction.
Intel Cloud Engineering Fleet Services GroupBangalore, Karnataka
X-Code Validation Engineer
2023.11 - 2025.07 (1 education.year_Label & 8 education.months_Label)
Job overview
- Led X-Code functional validation of feature backport requests on Intel Xeon silicon that involve low power and more performance.
- Delivered 9 feature backport requests for Intel Xeon platforms, enabling firmware/BIOS enhancements, feature qualification, power and performance optimization, and deployment readiness across large-scale customer fleets.
- Directed the validation strategy for nine Intel Xeon Xcode firmware components, managing four feature qualifications, regression testing, performance characterization, system-level debugging, risk assessment, and delivering recommendations for CCB sign-off requests.
- Led cross-functional root-cause analysis (RCA) of complex hardware, firmware, software, and platform issues, accelerating issue resolution, feature adoption, and release quality across customer deployments.
- Designed and developed a fleet validation automation framework that reduced manual effort by 60%, automating firmware flashing, sanity testing, functional validation, telemetry collection, workload execution, and stability testing.
- Coordinated cross-functional engineering priorities across operations, platform, and support teams.
- Led cloud infrastructure improvements supporting fleet services reliability and deployment consistency.
- Resolved production issues by analyzing logs, dependencies, and infrastructure alerts.
- Led a team of engineers to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget constraints.
Intel Optane Memory Customer Engineering GroupBangalore, Karnataka
Intel PMEM Customer Debug Engineer
2022.02 - 2023.11 (1 education.year_Label & 9 education.months_Label)
Job overview
- Intel PMEM Customer Debug Lead led customer engagement, design-in enablement, and technical debug for Intel Optane Persistent Memory products, driving issue triage, root-cause analysis (RCA), feature requests, and closure across multiple customers.
- Worked on functional validation of ADR, RAS, error detection and correction, dirty shutdown, patrol scrub, ARS, and RMT domains.
- Partnered with customers, L1 PAEs, and cross-functional teams to reproduce issues, drive IRF/task-force investigations, and accelerate resolution.
- Evaluated performance, reliability, and stability across memory configurations and workloads.
- Involved in technical collateral development, sharing validation learnings, and influencing architecture/tools teams to improve debug capabilities, tools, and customer enablement.
Nutanix HCI Validation Engineering GroupBangalore, Karnataka
Memory/Storage Validation lead Engineer
2017.10 - 2022.01 (4 education.years_Label & 3 education.months_Label)
Job overview
- Drive and validated firmware of memory and storage of different vendors across Nutanix HCI platforms.
- Validated and qualified firmware for 18 DDR, SSD, SED, HDD, and NVMe drives from various vendors on Nutanix HCI platforms using an automation framework, conducting functional, smoke, regression, stability, and performance tests.
- Performed issue triage, troubleshooting, and root-cause analysis, driving defects to resolution, and ensuring product quality and release readiness.
- Led test case development for two new SSD features, and collaborated with the automation team to design and implement automated validation coverage.
- Wrote, reviewed and edited technical document in accordance with template requirements.
HPE Integrated System Testing GroupBangalore, Karnataka
Software Systems Engineer
2009.02 - 2009.02
Job overview
- Led and validated HPE platforms, MSA storage boxes, and HPE storage controllers functionality.
- Validated HPE Gen platforms (DL, ML, BL, and Superdome), including firmware, drivers of storage controllers, and storage systems across Linux, VMware, and Windows environments.
- Validated DAS/SAN storage, conducted RAID testing, and verified hardware/software compatibility across HPE ProLiant servers and MSA storage platforms, improving storage system reliability.
- Led validation of 30+ firmware and driver releases for HPE ProLiant Superdome servers through automated system-level testing, accelerating release readiness, and improving product stability.
- Led defect triage, root-cause analysis (RCA), fix verification, regression testing, and cross-functional issue resolution in collaboration with development teams.
- Validated firmware builds of HPE Superdome servers and was involved in RAS functional validation of MCA recovery, fault tolerance, ADDDC, and Advanced Error Reporting.
- Involved in HPE Watchdog timer functionality.
- Delivered validation reports for five product launches, release readiness assessments, quality metrics, and stakeholder updates to support successful product launches.
Education
Mandanapalle Institute of Technology Affiliated to JNTUHyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
B.Tech from Computer and Science Engineering
University Overview
Skills
Server Platform Validation, Feature Enablement, RAS functional Validation, KPI Validation, Hardware/Software Integration, Functional validation, Customer Escalation & Root-Cause Analysis, Regression testing
SoC Validation, Intel Xeon Validation, Post-Silicon Power & Performance Validation, Firmware/BIOS Validation
Memory & Storage Validation: DDR4/DDR5 & PMEM Validation, RAS Validation, NVMe/SATA/SAS Storage Validation, Firmware Validation
Post silicon Power Management Validation, Performance Characterization & Tuning, Workload & Benchmark Analysis, Performance Regression Analysis
Debug, Profiling & Tools: JTAG, DCI/XDP, Yokogawa Power Analyzer, Intel PTU, EMON, Turbostat, Intel VTune Profiler, Log & Trace Correlation, RMT, sg3_utils, hdparm, IOMeter, sas3flash
Workload & Performance Analysis: SPEC CPU, SPEC Power, SERT, SPECjbb, Intel MLC, LINPACK, HPCG, STREAM FIO, Stress-ng, iperf
Automation & Scripting: Python, Shell Scripting, C/C Basics, Regression Automation, AI-Assisted Tooling (GitHub Copilot, MS Copilot)
OS & Tools: Linux, Windows, Git, GitHub, MobaXterm, Putty
Project planning,Project management,Engineering documentation,Technical reporting,Time management,product ownership,failure analysis
Languages
English
Upper intermediate (B2)
Telugu
Upper intermediate (B2)
Hindi
Intermediate (B1)
Kannada
Elementary (A2)
Accomplishments
Accomplishments
- Customer Success Award (2025): Recognized for driving Dell iPAL co-validation and customer deployment readiness, with 4 critical issues resolved ahead of delivery milestones.
- Special Mention Award (2025): Intel India Hackathon - Recognized for leading the development of an innovative CPU stress-testing solution.
- Results Driven Award (2024): Awarded for driving high-impact project outcomes, meeting aggressive validation timelines, and enabling team-wide deliverables.
- Demonstrated Intel System Stress and Memory and Diagnostics Tool to Indian customers at Intel's Data Centre Design Conference, 2025.
- Nutanix Monthly Summit Award (2020): Recognized for technical leadership, strong project execution, and successful delivery of validation objectives.
- Monthly PAT Award (2014): Recognized for driving high-impact project outcomes across multiple firmware builds, meeting aggressive validation timelines, and enabling successful team-wide deliverables.
- Improved validation efficiency by 20% through Python automation.
- Resolved 12 critical customer escalations involving CPU, memory, firmware, and platform integration.
- Driven release quality of more than 20 firmware patches across storage and fleet firmware features.
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Interests
Organizer mentorship
Cooking
Skills
Server Platform Validation, Performance Characterization, Feature Enablement, RAS feature Validation, KPI Validation, Hardware/Software Integration, Functional validation, Customer Escalation & Root-Cause Analysis, Regression & Escape Prevention
Software
Python
Shell scripting
C C
Timeline
SOC Power& Performance Validation & Debug Engineer
Intel Data Center Customer and Systems Engineering Group
2025.08 - 2026.08 (1 education.year_Label)
X-Code Validation Engineer
Intel Cloud Engineering Fleet Services Group
2023.11 - 2025.07 (1 education.year_Label & 8 education.months_Label)
Intel PMEM Customer Debug Engineer
Intel Optane Memory Customer Engineering Group
2022.02 - 2023.11 (1 education.year_Label & 9 education.months_Label)
Memory/Storage Validation lead Engineer
Nutanix HCI Validation Engineering Group
2017.10 - 2022.01 (4 education.years_Label & 3 education.months_Label)
Software Systems Engineer
HPE Integrated System Testing Group
2009.02 - 2009.02
Mandanapalle Institute of Technology Affiliated to JNTU
B.Tech from Computer and Science Engineering