Shanmuga (Anand) Gunasekaran
Software Architect
Bangalore,KA
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Summary
Dynamic Senior Storage and Cloud Architect with over 25 years of extensive experience in the storage domain, showcasing exceptional architectural and design skills. Expertise includes Cloud Storage and Virtualization, along with a strong ability to create comprehensive technical solution designs following thorough IT infrastructure architectural assessments. Proven track record of developing critical work products, such as technical solution design documents, architectural overview diagrams, operational models, and deployment models. Recognized as an enterprising leader skilled in guiding teams toward the successful achievement of shared objectives.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
Work History
Contract Engineer
Arkivio Inc
02.2002 - 05.2005
- Responsible for design and development of NetApp's Fpolicy server that is used for recalling stubbed files.
- Implemented NFS V3 protocol as per RFC and integrated it into the product.
- Performed database programming with relational databases to track files and their states.
- Proficient with almost all modules of the product from the code product in C++ to GUI in asp and IIS web server.
- Took initiative and successfully created an offshore team to develop a module for the client.
Software Engineer to Project Manager
Cybernet Software Systems Pvt Ltd
10.1996 - 05.2005
- Design and developed Cybernet's flagship product IntelliPRINT.
- Brought innovative ideas to improve the performance and presentation of the product.
- Took initiative in adding new designer and preview interface and made it as a professional product.
- Successfully spearheaded the product IntelliPRINT that won the Lotus Beacon Award for the best add-on product for Lotus Notes in Lotus Sphere conference.
Architect
DELL EMC / EMC Data Storage Systems Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru, Karnataka
07.2007 - 05.2025
- Company Overview: Products: Cirrus, Glider, Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA)
- Used LLMs like Copilot, Claude and ChatGPT in design documents, code development and writing test cases.
- Demonstrate feasibility of ideas using POCs and productize them.
- Core member of 'Common software initiatives' across the company that identifies and reuses common software across all products.
- Initiate and finalize architecture discussions cross-team for integration.
- Translate business requirements into detailed architectures and designs.
- Monitor and mentor the development team and perform code reviews and take corrective action.
- Implement architectural designs and implement then as per design.
- Identify modules where performance improvements can be done.
- Products: Cirrus, Glider, Cloud Tiering Appliance (CTA)
Project Manager
Benchmark Softech Pvt Ltd
07.2005 - 05.2007
- Led team of developers in the delivery of an offline sales system using Tablet PC.
- Ensured on-time, quality release of systems and components.
- Provided technical direction to the development team and mentored them on installation module development.
- Oversaw design of application from functional and technical specifications.
- Recommended and assisted with development of standards and project frameworks and provided guidance to vendors.
- Worked closely with business stakeholders to determine product prototypes.
- Successfully delivered an offline sales system for field sales people who can synchronize the sales data once they go online.
- Took initiative and conducted several technical sessions and shared my knowledge with developers and obtained the respect of the management.
Development Engineer
Intuit
09.2000 - 12.2001
- Involved in the development of Quicken Bill Manager product that introduced the first bill presentment service.
- Actively involved in implementing the portal as per the requirements and took care of performance and Gui interface.
- Also involved in handling bugs in the ISAPI application and database performance tuning.
Education
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
Madurai 06.1992 - 05.1996
Skills
Enterprise architecture design
Patents
US-11599276-B1 Snapshot shipping to multiple cloud destinations
US-10911540-B1 Recovering snapshots from a cloud snapshot lineage on cloud storage to a storage system
US-10992768-B1 Resuming copying of snapshots from a storage system to cloud storage
US-20210286760-A1 Managing snapshots stored locally in a storage system and in cloud storage utilizing policy-based snapshot lineages
US-11366600-B2 Moving snapshots from a local snapshot lineage on a storage system to a cloud snapshot lineage on cloud storage
US-11288134-B2 Pausing and resuming copying of snapshots from a local snapshot lineage to at least one cloud snapshot lineage
US-11573923-B2 Generating configuration data enabling remote access to portions of a snapshot lineage copied to cloud storage
US-20210286677-A1 Recovering a storage volume associated with a snapshot lineage from cloud storage
Source: https://patents.google.com/?inventor=Shanmuga+Anand+Gunasekaran&oq=Shanmuga+Anand+Gunasekaran
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Languages
English
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Tamil
Bilingual or Proficient (C2)
Kannada
Intermediate (B1)
Timeline
Architect
DELL EMC / EMC Data Storage Systems Pvt Ltd
07.2007 - 05.2025
Project Manager
Benchmark Softech Pvt Ltd
07.2005 - 05.2007
Contract Engineer
Arkivio Inc
02.2002 - 05.2005
Development Engineer
Intuit
09.2000 - 12.2001
Software Engineer to Project Manager
Cybernet Software Systems Pvt Ltd
10.1996 - 05.2005
Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science and Engineering
Thiagarajar College of Engineering
06.1992 - 05.1996