
I currently play the role of Director of Engineering. Have 27+ years of experience is in building products for Enterprise customers in technology domains of networking, storage and servers. Proven track record of building teams from the ground up and lead multiple engineering teams. Experience in leading transformations across business unit - technology, product, process and people.
Technical experience is in developing frontend/web technologies and Masters in Data Science and Machine Learning. Leading modernization at Dell including Agile transformation and Gen AI.
In 17 years as a manager, I have 6+ years of experience managing managers and senior architects. Flexible to adapt management style to fit startup and large enterprises.
As the founder of tech and design communities, which are a platform for thousands of techies to learn, collaborate and grow. JavaScript Meetup founded is #6 globally in the area of web technologies. Speaker, Author and strategist for conferences and publications. Recognized by Google, Microsoft and Huawei for web community contributions.
Years of professional experience
Years as Engineering leader
Certificatiions
Responsible for delivering projects strategic to Dell Technologies, working with cross functional teams and different Business Units of Engineering. As site leader in India, I am responsible to create site strategy working with executives.
- Delivering best-in-class user experience and APIs for Data Protection on-prem, cloud and SaaS platforms
- Leading modernization at Dell technologies - Gen AI and Agile transformation.
- Led teams that integrate secondary storage products to Dell strategic initiatives such as Apex (as-a-Service) offering.
- Driving initiatives like Engineering Manager Community of Practice, Learning community and Innovation across multiple sites, that built a culture of learning and highly engaged employees.
Built a team from ground up, to deliver new product capabilities. Using new technologies that help teams deliver bug free software faster and with low maintenance. Give technical oversight on key design and architectural decisions.
- Started a small GUI team of 4 members and grew to a 80 member team, expanding to System Management and Security.
- Directed team to modernize and simplify product using design thinking and latest web technologies. Participate in architecture reviews of GUI, System Management, Supportability, Telemetry and customer issue troubleshooting.
- Executed on site strategy to staff and implement complex features from Bangalore.
Responsible for managing three teams who work on manageability of clustering product that provides High Availability to Business Critical Applications. Transform the team into high-performing team with higher employee engagement. Technical oversight for a strategic product HP OneView, that is built on new software stack.
- Coordinated between product management, engineering, customer support for clustering and Disaster Recovery of mission critical applications on HPUX.
- Technically supervised the architecture and implementation of multi cluster manager using modern technologies. This reduced overall operational cost for the customers.
- Provided management oversight for the Disaster Recovery project, which included close working with EMC storage partner. Built best-in-class DR solution for short and long distance clusters.
Responsible for customer support in EMEA region and meet the service level agreements. Deliver customer patches that include minimal downtime of customer network. Managed a team of 10 engineers with core networking capabilities.
Responsible for a team of Systems Engineers who write and refine requirements for GSM 2G Network management software. The challenge was to work with a team of engineers more experienced than me. Improve the process to reduce number of requirement bugs, which are expensive in software development.
Responsible to build an Element Manager in C, that resides inside the router using low system resources. Develop in 9 months, including hiring a new team in Bangalore. Played the dual role of Technical Architect and Manager. Built proof-of-concept using existing software stack and fresh UI working with design team.
As a Technical lead, responsible for requirements gathering to delivery of security features – Lawful Interception and Insert Subscriber Data in GSM/GPRS Mobile Data Networks.
Development of management software based on Java EE for Edge Routers. Played role of frontend developer. Worked with backend architect, to bring consistency across product and better customer experience.
Worked on development and testing of GUI for Cisco network provisioning products. Started hobby projects in Web development, that remained interest area for entire career.
Project in Sustainable AI - how small generative models can be as efficient as larger models
Building engineering teams
Project Management Professional
Ranked #6 worldwide on meetup.com for JavaScript Frameworks. Started this community 6 years back. 50+ meetups and 2 bootcamps conducted. Opportunity to 30+ first time speakers to share knowledge. Active developers on several platforms - Discord, LinkedIn, YouTube, Twitter.
A design community of newbies and experienced professional on Discord. Meetups / Coffee Chats conducted.
A community for students interested in computers. Make graduates ready for Tech 4.0 by making them employable. This is a community of Industry veterans who buiild skill required for industry, but not taught in colleges.
Talks
2010 - till date
2012 - till date
Publications