
Sandeep Cariapa
Technical Product Manager
Half Moon Bay, CA, USA. Indonesia
cariapa@yahoo.com
Skills
Technical Product management
Linux
Project management
Data Center Networking: TCP/IP, NFS, Windows AD
Programming languages: Bash, PHP, Python
Databases: MySQL, Postgres, Cassandra, MongoDB
Virtualization: KVM, ESXi
Solutions Architect
Languages
English
Education
Certificate in Advanced Software Systems , Computer Science
January 1993 - May 1995
B.S. (Bachelor of Science) , Computer Science
September 1987 - May 1990
Experience
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
Founder of Kinzaa.
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.
Workplace personality

50-100
Company Size

12
Day Length

5-25
Team Size
Benefits

Retirement

Health Care

50+ Mi
Commute

Work from home

Paid Vacation

Full-time
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