Ashish Sinha on Tal
Headline
Staff Engineer @NetApp, ex-MinIo | ex-OpenEBS | Building Scalable Distributed Storage Systems for Over a Decade
About
Staff Software Engineer with 15+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud-native platforms, Kubernetes storage, and AI-enabled developer solutions. Expertise in Rust, Go, Java, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, AWS, Azure, and GCP, with a strong focus on platform engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and Forward Deployed Engineering. Experienced in AI-assisted software engineering, leveraging LLMs and developer AI tools to accelerate engineering productivity and delivery. Led engineering teams delivering enterprise-grade features including storage tiering, snapshots, cloning, Kubernetes operators, and zero-downtime upgrades. As a Forward Deployed Engineer, partnered directly with enterprise customers to lead large-scale migrations, resolve critical production issues, improve system reliability, and drive successful adoption of cloud-native infrastructure. Passionate about distributed systems, AI infrastructure, open-source technologies, and building resilient, scalable platforms.
Location
Greater Bengaluru Area
Work experience
Staff Engineer at NetApp, Nov 2024 - Present · 1 y 10 mo, Bangalore
Staff Software Engineer at DataCore Software, Sep 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru
Software Engineer at Minio, Inc., Aug 2018 - Sep 2022 · 4 yrs 2 mos
Big Data Developer at Wells Fargo, Feb 2017 - Jul 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Gaurding the Big data onboarded on the Data Lake portal through Entitlements.
Software Engineer at Wells Fargo, Jul 2016 - Sep 2018 · 2 yrs 3 mos
Software Engineer at HP, Apr 2015 - Jun 2016 · 1 yr 3 mos
Education
B.Tech, CSE, Haldia Institute of Technology 103
+2, Science, DAV Shyamali
Public links
github: https://github.com/sinhaashish
