Akshat Mithal

About Akshat Mithal

I am an Engineer by heart and strive to work with Diverse technologies and teams. My focus is on making teams self reliant by adequately ramping their skill level and to keep them motivated. Have been with IBM for more than 14 years now and worked with multiple Storage, AWS Cloud & Encryption Technologies. Currently working as IBM Architect for Data analytics, AI teams. In the past worked as CTO Member for Security and Team Lead for multiple IBM Flashsystem features. More than 18+ years of experience in Server and Storage Virtualization. Have > 10 patents filed on my name in the areas of Storage Flash, Virtualization, Cloud, Replication, Hypercovergence. Few are yet to be issued by USPTO. Core Strength Areas: Proof of Concepts for New Technology Adoption, Customer DemosDesigning Agile Strategies, Test Plans, Test effort sizing and Tests Scenarios Redhat Openshift, Kubernetes, Containers, DockersIBM Flashsystem Virtualization products involving Storwize, SVCCloud Backups & SecurityVMware VSphere, Microsoft Hyper-VFC, iSCSI SAN, SCSI, RAID, Clustering, Storage Devices, NAS, PERL, MS-ODX, VVOLFunctional, Performance, Stress and Regression TestingTeam building and skill development

Experience

1. Quality Architect & Support Leader, Ibm Storage Virtualize and Storage Insights

   IBM

   May 2022 — Present · Pune, IN

   IBM Storage Insights is a Kubernetes based SaaS product. Responsible for ensuring Quality delivery for every feature function of IBM Storage InsightsLeads IBM Storage Virtualize (FlashSystem and SVC) Support Team, APAC Region

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin

  Post Graduate Program, Artificial Intelligence

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Executive Master of Business Administration

• Vishwakarma Institute of Technology, Pune University

  BE, Electronics

  2002 — 2006

• City Vocational Public School

  12th, Science

  2002 — 2006

Skills

• Vmware
• Solaris
• Storage
• San
• Flash Drives
• Iscsi
• Fibre Channel
• Software Development
• Storage Virtualization
• C
• Clustering
• Replication
• System Testing
• Linux
• Testing
• Cloud Storage
• Storage Caching
• Virtualization
• Scsi
• Manual Testing
• Team Leadership
• High Availability
• Test Planning
• Cloud Computing
• High Availability Clustering
• File Systems
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Hyper-V
• Perl