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R Deeban Chakravarthy

Bengaluru

Summary

Seasoned Site Reliability Engineer with extensive QE Background in VMware SDDC and core vSphere technologies.

I have been working with VMC On AWS group at VMware for the past 5 years both on steady state, fleet maintenance and upgrade activities.
Prior to that I worked with the vSphere R&D group for 12-13 years on various vSphere components such as VSAN, VMFS, CIM, Server Qualification, CPU Qualification and storage driver testing across many Updates and patch releases in the capacity of a QE Engineer to QE Lead to Release Lead for multiple vSphere patches and update releases.
I am passionate about solving complex cross functional problems and find the most practical and efficient solution.

Apart from my work I have done part time theatre for a decade up until the pandemic, curating, acting and directing plays in multiple cities in India and in London.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience

Work History

Reliability Engineer 5

Broadcom Inc.
BENGALURU
06.2019 - Current
  • Working with VMC On AWS group at VMware for the past 5 years both on steady state, fleet maintenance and upgrade activities.
  • Lead the VMC on AWS SDDC Upgrades Team from SRE.
  • Oncall Roster planning & execution for Week on Week Upgrades and other Major Fleet activities for a 24 hour support weekdays and approved weekends.
  • Driving Engineering and operational Efficiency.
  • Empowering the SRE leadership by analysing the Month on Month Incidents for VMC -SDDC Upgrades for MSRs and make effective callouts.
  • Solving complex cross functional Service Improvement problems and driving them to closure with focus on Customer Experience and Operational Efficiency
  • Performing Day to day Oncall Ops from Steady State, Fleet Maintenance and SDDC Upgrades & prechecks.

Senior Member of Technical Staff

VMware India Pvt Ltd
BENGALURU
10.2007 - 05.2019
  • Worked as QE Engineer in CPD R&D Team on many vpshere releases from ESXi 254 Jumbo patch all the way up to ESXi 6.7.
  • Major areas worked upon : VSAN - FVT, VSAN ST, VMFS, Storage Driver Testing, CPU and Server Qualification and CIM Testing.
  • Developed Effective Test Plans for Upgrades and Patches aligning to the release timelines.
  • Deep Dive on many Customer Escalation Bugs and repro efforts.
  • Worked as a QE Release lead for multiple Update Releases.

QA Engineer

Calsoft Pvt Ltd
BENGALURU
05.2005 - 09.2007
  • Worked as a QA Engineer with Calsoft, with multiple clients, until I joined VMware as an employee.
  • First project was with NetApp as part of their Data Fabric Manager Team.
  • The second project was with a startup client, Ocarina Networks, which was building a deduplication solution later got acquired by Dell
  • Last and final one was with VMware for a year until I joined VMware as an Employee.

Education

PGPCC - Cloud Computing

Great Lakes Institute of Management
Bengaluru
01-2019

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Army Institute of Technology
Pune
12-2004

Skills

  • vSphere Technologies, VMC on AWS
  • Cloud Infrastructure, Reliability & Availability
  • Fleet Maintenance & LCM
  • SRE & QE Ops
  • Python, Linux
  • Problem Solving

Theatre

  • Apart from my work I have done part time theatre for a decade up until the pandemic, curating, acting and directing plays in multiple cities in India and abroad (London).
  • Practicing theatre enabled me in being as articulate as possible and always think about the target audience, be it at a marathon zoom call for troubleshooting a complex customer problem with many stake holders online or having a strategic technical discussion with cross functional teams.

Timeline

Reliability Engineer 5

Broadcom Inc.
06.2019 - Current

Senior Member of Technical Staff

VMware India Pvt Ltd
10.2007 - 05.2019

QA Engineer

Calsoft Pvt Ltd
05.2005 - 09.2007

PGPCC - Cloud Computing

Great Lakes Institute of Management

Bachelor of Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Army Institute of Technology
R Deeban Chakravarthy