Somashekara S.

About Somashekara S.

As an Engineering Manager in HPE Compute R&D, I lead a team of talented engineers developing HPE`s industry-leading BMC firmware - iLO. Good understanding of HPE firmware/software stack and the interfaces that affect manufacturing HPE servers – managing firmware quality, product backlog, creating new user stories, prioritizing and liaising with R&D, product engineering, and factories Proficient in diagnostics development for HPE Servers, and Edge IoT products – PXE booting, firmware integration, BOM validation, configuration verification, custom settings, OS load, and running various functional Diags tools Expertise in early engagement and working with cross-functional teams across geographies in multiple time zones that include R&D (Hardware/Software), product engineering, Supply Chain, and regional factories/ ODMs (Wistron, Inventec, Foxconn) Certified Project Management Professional and Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. I have led Lean Six Sigma projects of cross-functional teams that include Diags dev/QA engineers, Factory Test Engineers, and partners and in driving key metrics such as FPY - First Pass Yield, TAT, Test Cycle Time resulting in over $600K annual savings to the company bottom line.

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Hewlett Packard Enterprise

   Apr 2023 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   I lead a team of talented engineers developing HPE`s industry-leading BMC firmware - iLO. We perform board bring-ups for new server platforms.We work on the secure development of various device drivers (I2C, EEPROM, USB, Networking, Video, etc), and BMC-BIOS communication.We enable remote performance monitoring through enhanced telemetry reporting for server systems.As a manageability engine, we enable seamless lights-out manageability and security of HPE Server platforms across generations.

Education

• Visvesvaraya Technological University

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

  2005 — 2009

• Indian Institute of Management, Lucknow

  Executive Program in Business Management, Business Administration and Management, General

  2013 — 2013

• PES University

  Master of Technology - MTech, Cybersecurity Engineering

Skills

• Integration
• Manual Testing
• Shell Scripting
• Requirements Analysis
• Nms/Ems
• Telecommunications
• Perl
• Agile Methodologies
• Unix Shell Scripting
• Test Automation
• Debugging
• C
• Manufacturing Test Engineering
• Unix
• Sql
• Linux
• Supply Chain Operations
• Testing
• C++
• Product Testing
• Xml
• Software Development
• Python