Vishal Lonari
Senior Software Engineer and Product Owner
Summary
Experienced Technical Lead and mentor adept at integrating resources into business operations and developing innovative technical solutions to diverse issues. Strong history of managing highly effective teams to execute complex projects within stringent timeframes.
- Overall 15+ years of working experience in development and research of Enterprise level Storage, Deduplication, Backup and Disaster Recovery Software Systems and File Systems.
- Strong experience on C & C++ programming, SAN, NAS, NFS, PYTHON, SQL, Linux systems programming, application software, debugging, testing, and tools.
- Good understanding of Linux Internals, Kernel, Device Drivers and Operating System Internals.
- Good understanding of SDLC & Agile Development methodologies in product development. Actively serving as Certified Product Owner
- Interests: Design, Development, Planning and Management of challenging system software and User Space Applications. Use of Agile project methodologies for Project Management.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Technical Lead and Product Owner
Dell Technologies
03.2019 - Current
- Leading the team of the Power Protect Data Domain (PPDD) Boost File System and Open STorage (OST) protocol team.
- Engineering Product Owner for the Microservices and Containerization components in the upcoming product responsible for DevOps and CI/CD workflows.
- Serving as a team lead for the team for requirement analysis and specification, story grooming and end to end feature development.
- OST framework: Leading Veritas NetBackup integration with PPDD's OpenSTorage (OST) component to be able to plugin NetBackup media server with PPDD
- Customer escalation : Debug, analysis and providing fixes for the issues observed on the customer setup after deployment. Working closely with Accounts and Technical Support Team for the customer escalations.
- Boosted team productivity by implementing automated testing frameworks that reduced manual testing efforts and increased overall code quality.
- Coordinated with cross-department teams like QA, DevOps, and Support to ensure seamless end-to-end software delivery process.
- Led and mentored a team of developers to successfully deliver high-quality software projects on time and within budget constraints.
- Led several DevOps teams engaged in software development for enterprise applications. Owned and prioritized product backlog.
- Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience on C, C++, Python, GitHub, Shell scripting, Kubernetes, Docker and Microservices containerization.
Senior Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies LLC
12.2011 - 03.2019
- Worked on design & development of Veritas NetBackup product enhancements in terms of performance improvements and feature additions for Data protection and Disaster Recovery.
- Worked extensively on cataloguing metadata and lifecycle of the backed-up data. Storage Lifecycle Policies
- Worked on the deployment utility of Veritas NetBackup to calculate the protection statistics from the deployed setups.
- Served as part of engineering escalations team to work on issues faced on deployed systems on the customer end. Enhanced software functionality by identifying and resolving complex technical issues.
- Regularly reviewed peers code contributions, offering constructive feedback to enhance overall product quality.
- Developed scalable applications using agile methodologies for timely project delivery while serving as Scrum Master
- Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience C, C++, Perl, Shell scripting.
Senior Development Engineer
Calsoft Private Limited
09.2008 - 12.2011
- Part of offshore team of Hitachi Data System developing an Application protection software for the Hitachi storage for Oracle Database.
- Worked on design and development of application consistent snapshot management software for Oracle database.
- Identified the Oracle Database deployments topologies and use of Oracle Recovery Manager for the Data Protection.
- Worked on the Integration of Oracle Call Interface (OCI) with Hitachi storage controller for the application protection.
- Implemented best practices in version control management to streamline code updates and minimize conflicts during development cycles.
- Demonstrated experience and good hands-on programming experience on C, C++, Kernel Module programming.
Education
MBA - Computer Systems
Department Of Management Sciences, Pune University
Pune, India 04.2001 -
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Pune Institute Of Computer Technology
Pune, India 04.2001 -
Skills
Programming : C, C with Linux, Multithreading, IPC, Socket Programming, Shell, SQL, PYTHON RPC mechanism and REST
Domain Expertise : Data Protection and Disaster Recovery Software, SAN, NAS, Microservices and Containerization
Databases : MYSQL, MongoDB, OracleDB, Sybase, MongoDB, NimbleSQL
Tools and Utilities : Wireshark, CScope, VMware, OpenGrok, Valgrind, Versioning tools (Perforce, CVS, GIT) GDB, vSphere, Cygwin, Agile Development-CSM and PO
Project leadership and Management
Exposure to Enterprise Products : Veritas NetBackup, BackupExec, CommVault, PowerProtect Data Domain
Software Architecture Design and implementation
Agile project methodologies and Scrum Framework
Mentorship and coaching
Software development life cycle
Technical Mentoring
Object-Oriented Programming
Data Storage and Retrieval
Software Development Tools: JIRA, Confluence
Accomplishments
- Registered Scrum Master from ‘Agile Education by Scrum' https://s3.amazonaws.com/scruminc-certs/RSM-0425822
- Registered Product Owner from ‘Agile Education by Scrum' https://s3.amazonaws.com/scruminc-certs/RPO-6110115
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM) from ScrumAlliance.
- Certified Fitness and Nutrition consultant.
Timeline
Technical Lead and Product Owner
Dell Technologies
03.2019 - Current
Senior Software Engineer
Veritas Technologies LLC
12.2011 - 03.2019
Senior Development Engineer
Calsoft Private Limited
09.2008 - 12.2011
MBA - Computer Systems
Department Of Management Sciences, Pune University
04.2001 -
Bachelor of Engineering - Information Technology
Pune Institute Of Computer Technology
04.2001 -