Engineer Manager

Hari Sankaranarayanan

Product Leader

*************@*****.**.**

Summary

Seasoned Senior Management and Executive Management professional with hands-on technical skills.

Hands-on Development experience in Cloud product development (Hosted, On-premise), Storage

Virtualization, Network Virtualization, Software Virtualization, Enterprise Storage and Data management,

Backup/Replication software.

Software and Solutions Leader with versatile experience in managing all layers of enterprise software stack.

Hands-on approach for Development and Deployment Delivery.

Excellent product management skills and presentation skills.

Executive Networking skills.

Experienced in creating Elevator pitches to substantiate "Concept to Implementation" strategies to Venture

Capital firms.

Experience

Head, Architecture and Design,Core Development, Cloud and Storage at Toshiba R & D

2012 - 2013 (1 year)

Strategic & Tactical Responsibilities

Responsible for the overall Product vision and strategy.

Driven Product strategy and positioning for development of Cloud services in specific geographies.

Managed a cost of 2M$ over 6months to a year for Lab setup, Hiring /resourcing cost.

Created a Reconfigurable Lab to simulate hosted-cloud workloads.

Enable and Empower my reportees to make them function independently.

Responsible for hiring a team of 42 engineers, architects and managers within a time frame of 3-6 months.

Driven several OEM and Vendor relationships and partnerships for product launches.

Responsible to drive new patents around Software Defined Storage.

Successfully created competency among senior engineers and junior engineers in the areas of server

virtualization, networking, Software defined networking, Desktop virtualization, Advanced software

development in Storage and data-management, Advanced Cluster models.

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Technical Deliverables: (Operational Responsibilities)

Created the Overall Development plan and defined the choice of tools for development.

Created initial software design for Agent architecture and the broker architecture.

Created the Technical specs and proposals for creating a proprietary Brokering for desktops,

server VMs, Storage, Networking.

Created the Technical specs and proposals for Software Defined Storage, Gaming as a Service, Network as a

Service, Lab as a Service.

Created the Technical specs for Multi-tenancy of the entire Cloud Service Platform.

Proposed the Big-data Application stack integrated with the Cloud Base Services.

Arranged Workshops and trainings through my contacts for the team members.

Created a Cost-effective Lab by Negotiating the cost with channel partners.

Senior Manager, Products, Cloud Platforms,Citrix Inc at Citrix

2012 - 2012 (less than a year)

Senior Manager, Products at Samsung R&D

2011 - 2012 (1 year)

Drove the concept for Distributed Cloud TV for Families (Web Content and Broadcast Content). Patent

Pending.

Defined product specification for the new Cloud TV for Families product.

Drove development of a custom linux based virtualization Infrastructure stack for cloudApps.

Benchmarked the new stack against the existing IaaS framework based on OpenStack and CloudStack.

Created the storage as a service specification and the distributed web service specification for the storage

infrastructure as a service .

Senior Manager, Architect at EMC

January 2008 - December 2011 (4 years)

Delivered customer driven engineering solutions.

Delivered and supported key product management functions for all replication products.

Managed a team of engineers to deliver escalation engineering, new development and sustenance.

Developed the replication filter driver software as a part of the Kashya team.

1 recommendation available upon request

Staff Engineer at ONStor

2007 - 2008 (1 year)

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Wrote the Volume management layer and Volume management interfaces below the high-throughput

filesystem for the initial 5-way cluster.

Staff Engineer at VMWare

2006 - 2007 (1 year)

Staff Engineer at Pivot3 Inc

2006 - 2007 (1 year)

Developed and lead the design of key modules in the management path of the iSCSI storage array OS.

Staff Engineer at Scentric

2005 - 2005 (less than a year)

Responsible for design and development of Archiving and retention schemes for Compliance usecases.

Responsible for design and development of Backup/Restore/Retrieve use-cases with EMC Centera.

Responsible for design and development of Tier based Cataloging for the Data classification engine.

Senior Engineer R&D at EMC

2001 - 2005 (4 years)

Was responsible for Raid10 design and development and SCSI ULP on FCP module development.

Was responsible for mid segment NAS development using Microsoft framework, EMC's CIMOM and

Microsoft's VDS/VSS specification.

Was responsible for development and Interop of all new disk type support added to the NAS.

Responsible for bug-fixing and enhancements of several SCSI related problems and IO path problems on the

Array-OS that was built on VxWorks and on WindowsEmbedded.

Senior Filesystem Engineer at ADIC Corporation

1998 - 2001 (3 years)

Was solely responsible to add Solaris64bit support to the filesystem stack when 64bit support was first

introduced in Solaris.

Implemented the filesystem manager for distributed filesystem implementation.

Added multiple device support to simulate randomness for sequential devices through "Prefetch to server

Disk-cache". Majority of the sequential devices as in Tapes, Optical media from top vendors were supported.

Research Analyst at CDAC R&d

January 1996 - December 1997 (2 years)

Researched the following Distributed systems areas ;

a. Client Based distributed workload balancing algorithm on a network of workstations. Thin Workstation

model.

b. Peer to Peer Arbitration model. All workstations are thick and can process meta-data and make

load-balancing decisions. Membership tables are updated across all nodes.

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c. To drive transactional entitlements from the Client side. To keep workstations only for data compute and

no control.

Skills & Expertise

Cloud Computing

PaaS

Storage Virtualization

OS Virtualization

Application Virtualization

Network Virtualization

Enterprise Scalability

High Availability Clustering

Distributed File Systems

Distributed Development

Scalable Web Applications

Enterprise Architecture

Storage Solutions

Cloud Storage

SaaS

IaaS

Scalability

Software Architectural Design

Software Solution Architecture

Storage

Software Development

NAS

Honors and Awards

Static data race analysis APIs based on Lex and Yacc for Complex SMP and Multithreaded

implementations - Nominated by INAE (IIT Delhi) for best National level thesis 2000

Indian National Academy of Engineering (IIT Delhi)

January 2000

The outcome was a set of APIs that were derived using Lex and Yacc for Complex multithreaded

implementations. The approach was to create a list of indexable tokens using lex and create actions triggered

for grammar expressions created using Yacc. The APIs offer flexible ways to associate recursive, iterative

grammar expressions for complex SMP based code (Windows driver code using spinlocks,

Mutexes/semaphores on all Posix compliant code, Platform specific locks).

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Education

Indian Institute of Science

Computer Science & Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science,Computer Software

Engineering, 1994 - 1999

Grade: First Class

Activities and Societies: Won numerous Quizzing competitions and paper presentations.

Interests

Reforms for Third world countries.

Energy Innovation.

Smart Community Initiatives.

New Business Ventures.

International Business.

World Economic Forum Topics.

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Hari Sankaranarayanan

Product Leader

*************@*****.**.**

1 person has recommended Hari

"Hari is a seasoned manager who is passionate about raising the bar for the management team and building

new skills and competencies. He also is very enterprising and always seeks new challenges."

Uresh Vahalia, VP, Symmetrix Engineering, EMC Corporation, managed Hari indirectly at EMC

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