Kushal

About Kushal

Passionate Product Leadership professional and Storage validation expert with 16+ years of experience driving enterprise SSD/NVMe programs from silicon to hyperscale deployment.Core Petabyte-scale SSD architecture with NVMe Flexible Data Placement (FDP) for hyperscaler workloads• Disaggregated storage solutions — JBOF, NVMe-oF (TCP/ RDMA RoCE v2)• PoseidonOS (Open Compute Project): lightweight, high-performance storage OS for fabric-attached environments (CLI/ GUI/ REST API/ CSI - Container Storage Interface)• AI/ML workload validation — Stable Diffusion, MLPerf, MongoDB, Kubernetes• Gen5 NVMe E3.S SSDs, multi-namespace support, and QLC/TLC optimization• Solution & Performance Benchmarking across Block IO, Object IO, File IO workloadsLeadership & Program Led cross-functional NPI and sustenance programs at Intel and Samsung Directed enterprise server, storage, and networking validation across NAND, SAS/SATA, and NVMe SSDs Delivered end-to-end system solution validation including BIOS, BMC, CPLD, and Intel Xeon platforms Managed international collaborations across Shanghai, China (Intel) and Suwon, South Korea (Samsung)Technical Depth:Storage: SSD, SAN, NAS, DAS, RAID groups, High Availability (HA), Scale-out cluster architecturesPerformance: HammerDB, YCSB, FIO, VDBench, s3Bench, WARPWorkloads: Databases (MongoDB, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis), KVM/VMs, MinIO, CEPH, KubernetesKeen interest in leadership roles across top-tier storage and semiconductor organizations, driving next-generation SSD, NVMe, and data-center storage innovation.

Experience

1. Associate Director

   Samsung Semiconductor

   Jan 2025 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• B. M. S. College of Engineering

  B.E, Computer Science

  2004 — 2008

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Science (MS), Software Systems

  2011 — 2013

Skills

• Test Cases
• Pfail (Scram / Restore)
• Ibm Rational Clearquest
• High Availability Clustering
• Data Storage Technologies
• Enterprise Storage
• San
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Software Quality Assurance
• Agile Testing
• Storage Virtualization
• Data Replication
• Test Automation
• Linux
• Backup & Recovery Systems
• Perforce
• Jira
• Storage Management
• Netapp Filers
• Iscsi
• Team Management
• Ssd
• Test Planning
• Raid
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Fcoe
• Team Leadership
• Hp Quality Center
• Data Analysis
• Interview Skills
• Collaborator
• Quality Assurance
• Testing
• Serial Attached Scsi (Sas)
• Disaster Recovery
• Engineo Storage Group (Esg) Controllers
• Fc
• Scsi
• Manual Testing
• Agile Methodolgy