Rajesh Sudarsan

About Rajesh Sudarsan

Technical leader with 15+ years of experience in architecting, designing and developing scalable system software solutions. • Successfully led development teams to develop software solutions from concept to ready-to-ship product. • Evangelized product ideas in industry developer conferences to build mindshare among customers. • Adept in both industry research and product development.Technical expertise: Distributed systems, Scalable system software, Parallel computing, Distributed computing, Performance optimization, Software systems architecture, design, development, debugging, and maintenance, Large-scale software systems, Programming languages, Software defined storage, Runtime systems, Computer architecture, Data structures, Algorithms, Concurrency and parallelism, Cloud computing, Cloud storage, File systems, Distributed storage, High-performance data storage, Linux kernel development, Technology research, Debugging and root cause issues, Agile methodology for software development.Leadership and project management:Planning and execution of technical roadmaps including gathering requirements, managing project priorities, release schedules, and deliverables through the entire project lifecycle. Instituting best practices for software product development and Agile management techniques and tools to improve engineering productivity, and software quality. Performing project analysis, risk assessment, and proposing mitigation strategies, Mentoring, team leadership, Customer interfacing

Experience

1. Member of Technical Staff

   NetApp

   Oct 2015 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

   Key contributor to ONTAP’s tiering cloud storage solution - FabricPool.• As a core member of the FabricPool team contributed significantly to the development of features and capabilities for ONTAP’s tiering cloud storage solution (FabricPool) for public and private clouds including design, code reviews, managing code stability and quality, identifying and addressing performance bottlenecks/issues.• Led the architecture, design and development across diverse cross-functional teams to implement new features to improve FabricPool (S3 object tagging, flexible object format) as well as to leverage it to provide a scalable cloud based tiered storage to critical ONTAP features such as cluster disaster recovery.• Led technical discussions, provided subject matter expertise and mentored developers throughout the product development process.• Drove all technical aspects of product development including working closely with stakeholders, defining requirements, designing, task scoping, implementation and integration with existing code base to deliver quality products with tight deadlines. • Active member of Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).

Education

• Virginia Tech

  Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science

  2004 — 2009

• University of Alabama at Birmingham

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Science

  2002 — 2004

• University of Mumbai

  Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering

  1997 — 2001

Skills

• Optimizations
• File Systems
• Openmp
• Parallel Computing
• High Performance Computing
• Operating System Internals
• Computer Architecture
• Distributed Storage
• Algorithms
• Distributed Systems
• Simulations
• Linux Kernel Development
• Multithreading
• Mpi
• Parallel Algorithms
• Ceph
• Software Development
• Python
• Scrum
• Scalability
• Parallel Programming
• Software Engineering
• Object Oriented Design
• Agile Methodologies
• C++
• Performance Optimization
• Linux
• Testing
• Software Defined Storage
• Virtual File System
• Scientific Computing
• Computer Science
• C
• Programming
• Optimization