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Dipankar S.

VMware Cloud Foundation Content Development Lead (Learning and enablement) at VMware by Broadcom

Bengaluru

23+ years of work experience

Broadcom
Nov 20233 yrsPresent

Hybrid

Global Lead for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) technical curriculum development.
VMware
Aug 20234 mosNov 2023

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

I am currently the global technical lead for all VMware training and customer enablement content on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). My following initiatives created impact in many aspects: >R&D engagement: One of the primary functions in my role is to engage with product development to build the technical enablement roadmap for customers, support staff and other teams like Professional Services. >Lead the creation of the first technical course on using Tanzu and NSX on VMware Cloud Foundation >Reduced size of the lab environment by almost 1 TB,resulting in huge savings in the customer-facing course delivery and reduced load on internal training clouds as well. > Reduced the instances of failure in customer-facing labs by more than 50%. The failures occur due to the scope and size of this product running on a virtualized cloud platform. I did extensive fine-tuning to stabilize this lab environment. > Helped removed redundancies in multiple courses on the same product, which resulted in a single unified curriculum for VCF. This consolidation exponentially increased the saleability and positioning of this curriculum. >Designed and created the first complete course on VMware vSphere with Tanzu with NSX on VMware Cloud Foundation. This course is now live on the VMware Learning Platform >Created the first course for VCF troubleshooting for Global services. Wass a highly successful course which was effective in preventing major escalations in Global support when VCF knowledge and skillset was in initial phases. >Designated team SME for Site Recovery manager and trainer of GSS staff on SRM troubleshooting. >Was one of the first SMEs to create content on VMware vSAN and trained many internal teams like support and PS >Was one of the first SMEs to create content on VMware vVOLS and trained many internal teams like support and PS
VMware
May 20212 yrs 4 mosAug 2023

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

I am currently the global technical lead for all VMware training and customer enablement content on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). My following initiatives created impact in many aspects: >R&D engagement: One of the primary functions in my role is to engage with product development to build the technical enablement roadmap for customers, support staff and other teams like Professional Services. >Reduced size of the lab environment by almost 1 TB,resulting in huge savings in the customer-facing course delivery and reduced load on internal training clouds as well. > Reduced the instances of failure in customer-facing labs by more than 50%. The failures occur due to the scope and size of this product running on a virtualized cloud platform. I did extensive fine-tuning to stabilize this lab environment. > Helped removed redundancies in multiple courses on the same product, which resulted in a single unified curriculum for VCF. This consolidation exponentially increased the saleability and positioning of this curriculum. >Designed and created the first complete course on VMware vSphere with Tanzu with NSX on VMware Cloud Foundation. This course is now live on the VMware Learning Platform
VMware
Jun 20156 yrsMay 2021

Greater Bengaluru Area

Architect, develop, and provide deep-dive technical training courses to specialized audiences such as VMware support staff as well as customers. I Created many video training courses for VMware, and I am the primary camera facing course developer in India. These videos on vSAN, VMware Storage, and VMware PowerCLI are available at the VMware learning zone: https://www.vmware.com/education-services/learning-zone.html. (Subscription needed for viewing).
Hewlett-Packard
Sep 20095 yrs 10 mosJun 2015

Backup and recovery(BUR) and Storage Lead responsible for end to end implementation and delivery of large enterprise accounts handled by HP
EMC
Sep 20071 yr 11 mosJul 2009

Working with large scale enterprise customers on issues related to EMC data protection and disaster recovery solutions including Networker, Avamar, Data Domain, VNX, Data Protection Advisor and Recoverpoint.
EMC
Nov 20024 yrs 11 mosSep 2007

Technical support coach for Hardware and o/s support Team.

Dipankar’s AI Stack

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Education

Caltech

Post Graduate Program In Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering

Caltech

20221 yr2023
bangalore university

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering

bangalore university

19954 yrs1999

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Headline

VMware Cloud Foundation Content Development Lead (Learning and enablement) at VMware by Broadcom

About

I’m a highly focused, result-oriented, vision driven technologist with 20 years of experience in Deep Dive Technical training, Team management, and Data Center Design\Implementation .

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

anthropic apis

claude code

claude

gemini

mcp

Work experience

VMware Cloud Foundation Automation Technical Content Lead at Broadcom, Nov 2023 - Present · 3 yrs, Hybrid, Global Lead for VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) technical curriculum development.

Senior Staff Technical Architect at VMware, Aug 2023 - Nov 2023 · 4 mos, Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India, I am currently the global technical lead for all VMware training and customer enablement content on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). My following initiatives created impact in many aspects: >R&D engagement: One of the primary functions in my role is to engage with product development to build the technical enablement roadmap for customers, support staff and other teams like Professional Services. >Lead the creation of the first technical course on using Tanzu and NSX on VMware Cloud Foundation >Reduced size of the lab environment by almost 1 TB,resulting in huge savings in the customer-facing course delivery and reduced load on internal training clouds as well. > Reduced the instances of failure in customer-facing labs by more than 50%. The failures occur due to the scope and size of this product running on a virtualized cloud platform. I did extensive fine-tuning to stabilize this lab environment. > Helped removed redundancies in multiple courses on the same product, which resulted in a single unified curriculum for VCF. This consolidation exponentially increased the saleability and positioning of this curriculum. >Designed and created the first complete course on VMware vSphere with Tanzu with NSX on VMware Cloud Foundation. This course is now live on the VMware Learning Platform >Created the first course for VCF troubleshooting for Global services. Wass a highly successful course which was effective in preventing major escalations in Global support when VCF knowledge and skillset was in initial phases. >Designated team SME for Site Recovery manager and trainer of GSS staff on SRM troubleshooting. >Was one of the first SMEs to create content on VMware vSAN and trained many internal teams like support and PS >Was one of the first SMEs to create content on VMware vVOLS and trained many internal teams like support and PS

Staff Technical Architect at VMware, May 2021 - Aug 2023 · 2 yrs 4 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, I am currently the global technical lead for all VMware training and customer enablement content on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF). My following initiatives created impact in many aspects: >R&D engagement: One of the primary functions in my role is to engage with product development to build the technical enablement roadmap for customers, support staff and other teams like Professional Services. >Reduced size of the lab environment by almost 1 TB,resulting in huge savings in the customer-facing course delivery and reduced load on internal training clouds as well. > Reduced the instances of failure in customer-facing labs by more than 50%. The failures occur due to the scope and size of this product running on a virtualized cloud platform. I did extensive fine-tuning to stabilize this lab environment. > Helped removed redundancies in multiple courses on the same product, which resulted in a single unified curriculum for VCF. This consolidation exponentially increased the saleability and positioning of this curriculum. >Designed and created the first complete course on VMware vSphere with Tanzu with NSX on VMware Cloud Foundation. This course is now live on the VMware Learning Platform

Senior Technical trainer and Course Developer at VMware, Jun 2015 - May 2021 · 6 yrs, Greater Bengaluru Area, Architect, develop, and provide deep-dive technical training courses to specialized audiences such as VMware support staff as well as customers. I Created many video training courses for VMware, and I am the primary camera facing course developer in India. These videos on vSAN, VMware Storage, and VMware PowerCLI are available at the VMware learning zone: https://www.vmware.com/education-services/learning-zone.html. (Subscription needed for viewing).

Storage, Backup and Recovery(BUR) Implementation Architect at Hewlett-Packard, Sep 2009 - Jun 2015 · 5 yrs 10 mos, Backup and recovery(BUR) and Storage Lead responsible for end to end implementation and delivery of large enterprise accounts handled by HP

Enterprise Support Services (BUR Product SME) at EMC, Sep 2007 - Jul 2009 · 1 yr 11 mos, Working with large scale enterprise customers on issues related to EMC data protection and disaster recovery solutions including Networker, Avamar, Data Domain, VNX, Data Protection Advisor and Recoverpoint.

Technical Lead at EMC, Nov 2002 - Sep 2007 · 4 yrs 11 mos, Technical support coach for Hardware and o/s support Team.

Education

Post Graduate Program In Cloud Computing, Computer Engineering, Caltech

Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, bangalore university