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Visionary Leader | Technical & Business Strategy | GCC Operations & Site Leadership

About

Alumnus of NITK Surathkal and IIM Bangalore, and a seasoned technology leader with over two decades of experience driving large-scale software and platform engineering initiatives. Expert in defining and executing product and technology strategy, leading global cross-functional teams, and delivering complex systems from concept to market. Demonstrated success in building and mentoring high-performance organizations (200+ engineers), influencing executive stakeholders, and delivering measurable business impact. Seeking to lead next-generation compute and software ecosystems through innovation, scale, and strategic execution. • Domain: Storage ( Block, Object, File Storage), Device Drivers, Archive/Backup, Snapshots services, Replication • Firmware: SCSI, RAID, SSD ( SLC, MLC, TLC, QLC) • Operating Systems: Windows, Embedded Linux, UNIX (Tru64/Solaris/HP-UX), VMS • Webservers & Frameworks: Weblogic, Websphere, Tomcat , NodeJS, AngularJS, ReactJS, Microservices • PLs: Java JDK/ J2EE, C, C++, C#, NET, Python, HTML, SQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, OBIEE, PowerBI • Protocols: SCSI, iSCSI, SATA, SAS, PCIe, NVMe, I2C, UART, SMBus, CXL • Platforms & Utilities: JIRA, easyBI, MS-Project, CI/CD: Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, GCP, Azure • AI Tools: MS Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Claude AI, ChatGPT, Gemini AI, Azure AI, Atlassian AI

Location

Bengaluru

AI stack

claude

deepseek

gemini

github copilot

ChatGPT

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Work experience

Director, Site Leader, HME India( GCC ) at HME, Jan 2024 - Nov 2024 · 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, • Led the HME India GCC, delivered engineering projects on Azure Cloud, Data Warehouse, and IOT platforms. • Implemented innovative strategies to optimize operational efficiency and drive growth in the Indian market. • Successfully managed cross-functional teams to achieve key milestones and exceed project goals. • Working with and managing cross-functional teams with a strong background in Technology, Operations and strategic planning in matrixed organization and has the ability to work with individuals across the organization. • Regular communication, project management and stakeholder management • Demonstrated experience as a highly collaborative leader with excellent judgement capabilities • Excellent negotiation and communication skills • Ability to build strategic plans but also operate tactically to drive execution • Inclusive leader who understands and respects the uniqueness of individuals and respect others perspectives. Helping to develop a strong GCC ecosystem in India

Director - SSD Product Development and Technical Program Management at Sandisk, Aug 2014 - Jun 2023 · 8 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Led Client SSD and Enterprise SSD firmware development with SLC,MLC, TLC, QLC NAND Created a strong echo system to interact with Product management and Program Managements on day-to-day basis Managed the teams of engineers developing and validating Fusion-io based technologies Led the SanDisk Flashsoft program which is a server-side caching software for HDD based storage infrastructure, where applications benefit from IOPs and latency. Built a 30+ members high performing team to develop and qualify the Flashsoft product. Managed DevOps and Business Operation Teams. Led Program Management Teams for Manageability S/W Development, Failure Analysis & Debug Tools for ESS Defined roadmap and made several product releases on time. Held multiple roles as a technical manager, program management lead, and customer success manager

Director of Engineering at Panzura, Feb 2013 - Jul 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, Heading the Panzura storage Offshore Development Centre ( Through CalsoftLabs ) Engineering deliverables : Distributed File system, CIFS, NFS, RESTFull APIs with multi-cloud support which include AWS, Azure, Google Cloud. Hybrid Cloud NAS / Leverages the cloud for the single source of truth while ensuring secure, global access throughout the enterprise across the geographies. Global File Distribution / Rapidly distributes files through a global namespace, leveraging local caching services for performance that’s second to none.

Program Director - OCS, Enterprise Manager at Director, Oracle India, Jul 2007 - Jan 2013 · 5 yrs 7 mos, Bangalore, India, Led team of highly talented engineering teams. Oracle Enterprise Manager provides a comprehensive monitoring and management solution for Oracle Database and Engineered Systems deployed in cloud and customer data centers. Customers can run Enterprise Manager on￾premises and in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Led Oracle Insurance GBU product development and successfully delivered multiple product releases Led Oracle Collaboration Technologies product development and successfully delivered multiple product releases

Engineering Manager - File Systems at Engineering Manager, Aug 2004 - 2007 · 2 yrs 6 mos, Bangalore, India, • Managed the Tru64 Filesystem development and quality assurance teams • Implemented and delivered complex projects, which included AdvFs, NFS, CFS, UFS and Logical Storage manager.

Education

M.Tech, Power & Energy Systems Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka

Executive Master of Business Administration, General Management Program, Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

Public links

github: https://github.com/mailvachu