Sapan Kumar

About Sapan Kumar

Sapan is a Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture with 15+ years of experience in designing and implementing solutions on Enterprise Block, File, and Object Storage Platforms for Fortune 500 Customers. With a master’s degree in software engineering and a passion for automation, he has developed tools and processes that are helping global tech communities in Dell PS. His sound business acumen has helped transform the product deployment business model resulting in significant cost savings and improved time to value for customers. In his current role, Sapan is a SME for Object Storage and Object Data Migrations portfolio. He is leading the efforts for new product & service introduction in the Unstructured Data Storage division. Having more than 17 Technology Certifications under his belt from Dell/EMC/AWS/VMware, he has recently acquired Kubernetes (CKA and CKAD) certifications supporting the containerization journey of Dell/EMC products. Due to his excellent technical acumen and people skills, Sapan has developed professional relationships with product engineering, sales and project management organizations that immensely help RDC business. During his 10 years tenure at Dell, Sapan has bagged 40 plus awards including most prestigious “Game Changer” and “Gold” Awards because of his outstanding customer focus. Sapan takes pride in being an adaptive person and he is always a preferred choice of leadership, during a new technology onboarding.

Experience

1. Senior Principal Engineer, Solutions Architecture

   Dell Technologies

   Apr 2021 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Designed custom Object Storage solutions involving multiple sites for enterprise customers.• Lead large migrations involving billions of objects and petabytes of data.• Scoped large custom deals involving solution design and residency.• Planned data center moves involving object storage solutions.• Converted high value POCs that specialized skills, quick adaptability, and improvisation.• Designed and executed cyber recovery testing for Object storage platforms.• Planned non-disruptive ECS network changes involving 3 sites.• Planned capacity expansion in a very large object storage as a service environment.• Planned and executed ECS Tech Refresh simultaneously enabling additional resources. • Supported Product documentation teams for documentation corrections/improvements on Deployment and Migrations.• Reviewed 2 new Education services courses for DataIQ implementation and Administration. • Collaborated with product serviceability teams on processes and procedure improvements for ECS Tech Refresh• Lead scripting/automation team at RDC level to drive innovation efforts across RDCs.• Contributed in development and execution of step-up program that focuses on wholistic growth of individuals. This is under Pilot run in UDS and planned to be launch across organization soon. • Leading the effort to define future ready skills and drive adoption for UDS Team• Delivered Deep dive sessions with live demos on latest technology and complex topics in UDS Tech connect forums with large audience. – IAM, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, TLS.• Assisted resources from other disciplines during integration sessions – DPS integration with UDS. • Represented RDC Team in UDS Discipline/SET calls and cascaded necessary information to the team.• Participated actively in ECS Champions Forum answering questions asked by Technical, PM and Presales resources world-wide.

Education

• U.P. Technical University

  B. Tech, Computer Science & Engineering

  2002 — 2006

• Indian Institute of Management Bangalore

  Executive Technical Leadership Program (TechEdge), Technical Leadership

  2017 — 2018

• Pandit Deendayal Upadhyay Sanatan Dharma Vidyalaya

  10, 10+2

  1992 — 2000

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  Master of Technology (MTech), Computer Software Engineering

  2014 — 2017