Cloudian , San Mateo, CA, USA

May 2021 - Present

Please visit http://cloudian.com/kubernetes, the Cloudian Kubernetes site  for more information about Cloudian's Kubernetes solution, which I run.

Also https://github.com/cloudian-api/bucketops  for some sample scripts that interface with Cloudian's S3-compatible API, native S3 extensions and admin API. If you're looking to get started this is an introduction to the boto3 and requests library.

Kinzaa , Half Moon Bay, CA, USA

November 2011 - Present

Kinzaa started as a night/weekend project to help people build infographic resumes and has become very popular. After Nutanix, I have been working on successfully monetizing this project.

• Managing local and overseas team of designers and developers.
• Interfacing with authors and bloggers who write about Kinzaa.
• Running A/B tests to determine viability of new features.
• Ensuring hosting costs are minimal by developing a hybrid cloud strategy with an IDC and AWS.
• Investigating ways of building a social graph using ML techniques.
• Adding functionality from various 3^rd party providers such as Twilio, Stripe, Paypal.

Nutanix , San Jose, CA, USA

July 2017 - October 2020

Very consultative process. Covered accounts in NorCal such as Intuitive Surgical, Sephora USA. Grew accounts from < 10 nodes to 200+ deployd nodes.

• Implemented hybrid cloud for dev/ops team at Intuitive Surgical.
  • IT staff was able to deploy a VM on either Nutanix, VxRail, or AWS based on their end-user requirements. This solution was built on ServiceNow.
  • In another scenario, Bitbucket and Jenkins were configured, so software-build VMs were able to burst to EC2 from on-prem if their Nutanix cluster ran short of resources.
• Configured GPU-enabled virtual desktops in NorCal for robot designers accessing workload from Frankfurt.
• My GitHub repo with sample Nutanix REST API scripts is located here: https://github.com/sandeep-car
  • The API-Lab was created to help customers get started quickly. It was chosen by GitHub to be in their Arctic Code Vault due to its popularity.
  • The VM export-import scripts were created because Nutanix did not have the functionality at the time. This functionality has since been added to the OS.
  • This set of scripts was created for a POC where the customer wanted a set of VMs with the same IP addresses but on different VLANs.

Hitachi Data Systems Corporation , Santa Clara

February 2016 - March 2017

Reporting to the Senior Director of Engineering, I was tasked with porting/tuning Big Data apps to run on HSP. Took the product from a number of failed POCs to successful deployments at vrious global customers.

• Led apps team for HSP, which is Hitachi’s Hyper-Converged product. Used Agile process.
• Evangelized Big Data within HDS, which had previously focused solely on storage hardware. This included making internal presentations, running tutorials and creating demos for the sales group.
• Ported various applications to HSP, such as the HortonWorks stack, Cassandra, ELK, etc.
• Wrote technical papers/guides on Ambari and Cassandra, in addition to working with the sales team to run POCs and close sales.

STEC: Enterprise SSD pioneer. (Acquired by HGST/Western Digital) , Sunnyvale

February 2012 - June 2015

Hired by SVP to develop use cases for STEC SSD drives.

• Presented STEC's caching approach at Flash Memory Summit: http://bit.ly/caching_fms
• Ran benchmarks such as YCSB, sysbench and HammerDB to characterize performance of MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, Splunk.
• Investigated SCST/SRP as a means of allowing remote clients low latency access to PCIe drives: http://bit.ly/scst_srp
• Wrote MYSQL Best Practices guide: http://bit.ly/mysql_wp1
• Published papers: http://bit.ly/ctr_vdi1
• STEC was acquired by HGST/Western Digital.

Symantec (VERITAS): Storage software vendor, Distributed Storage Group. , Mountain View

May 2009 - February 2012

Reporting to the GM, I was tasked with global technical GTM activities for Symantec's clustered storage product.

• Wrote position papers, worked with engineering team to prioritize features.
• Deployed and installed clustered NAS server in North America from joint venture with Huawei, which had previously sold only in APJ.
• Mentored/nurtured relationships with initial North American partners, both channel and hardware vendors. Included training and joint deployments.
• The joint venture was sold to Huawei. 

IBRIX: Distributed storage software startup. (Acquired, now known as HPE/StoreOnce) , Billerica

April 2007 - February 2009

• Sales Engineer for region west of Denver in clustered NAS startup.
• Opened up new vertical: eCAD, for company which had previously focused solely on HPC and Media.
• Duties involved technical sales as well as consulting/installation/configuration.
• IBRIX was successfully acquired by HPE.

Neopath Networks (Acquired by Cisco) , Sunnyvale

January 2004 - January 2007

• First Sales Engineer hired into dynamic and growing startup in the NAS storage virtualization area.
• Analyzed customer requirements, worked with Engineering to determine which features should go into new releases.
• Wrote tools in PHP, Perl and Python to administer the product.
• Setup field engineering processes and practices, such as installation checklist, deployment guide, technical guides, solution guides in SFDC, etc.
• Neopath was successfully acquired by Cisco 3/07.

Network Appliance , Sunnyvale

January 2002 - January 2004

• Worked with product management to define roadmap for my product, NearStore.
• Closed sales calls and brief customers at NetApp corporate headquarters.
• Worked closely with partner companies such as VERITAS/Legato to integrate their products with NearStore.
• Developed training material for sales force/sales engineers, including setting up the certification program.

Silera Corp: Dot-com era travel search engine startup , Fremont

January 1999 - January 2001

• Designed XML/Java product on BEA WebLogic and supervised team of 10 engineers.
• The product was a Web-based travel booking engine.
• We got caught in the Nasdaq/post 9/11 tech bust and sank but created some interesting technology.

Alteon Websystems: Pre-IPO server load balancing startup (Acquired by Nortel) , San Jose

January 1998 - July 1999

• Provided pre-sales support, advice and assisted customers such as Real Networks, FedEx Corp, France Telecom, cameraworld.com, epinions.com and egreetings.com on issues including redesigning their networks.
• Provided post-sales support such as installation and deployment of Web infrastructure for hundreds of sites including the ones mentioned above.
• Modified squid to make it work with Alteon’s layer4 switch.

SGI , Mountain View

January 1995 - January 1998

• I was managing IRIX NetWorker, which we OEM'd from Legato, which is now part of EMC.
• I worked on a project that backed up a terabyte of data in under an hour.
• I first got involved in open source at SGI, where I ported top to IRIX. Then worked on the Linux port to MIPS, but never completed it to my everlasting regret.