Shyam Iyer

About Shyam Iyer

Distinguished Engineer in Dell\'s Office of CTO experienced at Researching, Designing, Developing, Debugging, Validating, Leading and Driving System and Software solutions that have an industry-wide impact. Experienced in leading research concepts that turn into industry-first products or influence roadmaps significantly. With 60 granted patents and numerous pending, Shyam has wide experience with Kernel, Device Drivers, Operating Systems, Virtualization, FPGA/Hardware device definitions, system architecture, performance tuning, Simulation, characterization, Storage Networking protocol stacks, OS/BIOS interfaces, Systems management, CPU micro-architecture, etc. He regularly presents/reviews solutions internally and externally with C-level execs/customers/developer-oriented audiences. Shyam writes code/reviews them for relief and enjoys a healthy smattering of technical and business-oriented discussions.

Experience

1. Software Sys Principal Engineer, Platform Technology & Architecture, Office of the CTO

   Dell Technologies

   Nov 2013 — Present

   Prototyping Software that could turn into a productMarrying H/W and S/W concepts in Datacenter technologies to create an efficient solution and realize using prototype code.Lead software prototyping effort as a real engineering effort and work with globally distributed engineers.Help define next generation hardware to the absolute low-level detail that could accelerate the software workload further.Look for optimization in the entire S/W workload stack starting from the BIOS. Review SW/HW designs from partners/vendors/internal teams and influence.Perform technical due diligence for Strategic Partnerships/Alliances.

Education

• Kendriya Vidyalaya Shahibaug Ahmedabad

  2nd Std to 10th Std.

  1989 — 1998

• Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University

  B.E., Electronics and Communications

  2000 — 2004

• Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

  M.S., Software Systems

  2006 — 2008

• Kendriya Vidyalaya Mehsana

  11th and 12th Std

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Storage Management
• Software Defined Networking
• Vmware
• White Papers
• Servers
• Iscsi
• Technical Project Leadership
• San
• Red Hat Linux
• Shell Scripting
• X86
• Open Source
• Fibre Channel
• Protocol Stacks
• Kernel Performance Tuning
• Storage Area Network (San)
• Protocol Design
• Storage Area Networks
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Redhat
• Python
• Algorithm Design
• Kernel Programming
• Virtualization
• Patents
• Scsi
• Storage
• Device Drivers
• Cluster
• C++
• Vendor Management
• Storage Architecture
• C
• Operating Systems
• Technical Presentations
• Kernel
• Debugging
• System Architecture
• C Programming