Balamurali Palaiah

Summary

Engineer with passion for technology, innovation and creating value.

Strong experience in :

Distributed systems , Cloud platforms , Hybrid cloud ecosystems , Hypervisors, Kubernetes
Microservices architecture and development
Object Oriented Design and development, Architecture & Design Patterns
Data protection , Business continuance , Data and Storage management systems
Network management systems (SNMP, CMIP)
Equipment data acquisition(EDA) and management systems
Technical leadership: Leading teams to success
Collaborating with partners, vendors and stakeholders to drive consensus and alignment

years of professional experience

NetApp Inc

12.2005 - Current

Lead the architecture , design and development of

Data protection services for application and VM workloads on NetApp on-premise storage platform and NetApp cloud storage services ( Azure NetApp Files and AWS FSx-ONTAP )
Business continuance / disaster recovery automation service for applications / VMs
Common storage abstraction service layer that is an integral part of data protection stack
Uniﬁed management platform for applications and VM workloads on NetApp storage
Ransomware protection service for VMs leveraging NetApp platform capabilities
VSS hardware provider integration , VAIO ﬁlter driver based solution to protect VMs based on any storage

This involved :

Architecture ,design and development working with multiple stakeholders
Hands on development of some of the key subsystems and services
Leading a team of development engineers
Engaging with QA and other functional teams for delivery of the product
Engaging with customers to understand requirements and to evangelize product features
Collaborating with partners (Microsoft, VMWARE) to identify opportunities for creating value and translate it to product roadmap and integration plan
Driving innovation: Filed multiple patents and was awarded 6 patents from US patent office

iLink Systems Inc

01.2004 - 12.2005

Drove the architecture , design and development of applications and services based on customer requirements
Lead the design and development of Windows Active Directory Group Policy based management solution and Group policy extensions for FullArmor Inc
Designed and developed health care community portal for AARP
Lead the development of Groove P2P platform integration with Microsoft Inc

HCL Technologies

12.2002 - 12.2003

Lead the design and development of Interface A stack for Semiconductor Fabrication Equipment Data Acquisition and Management
Integrated the Interface-A stack with FAB equipment from FEI Technologies Inc - Boston
Demo-ed the product in SEMI consortium -North America

Siemens Inc

05.2000 - 12.2002

Design and development of Network management system for Siemens EWSD switches based on SNMP and CMIP
Developed network element group management and alarm corelation functionality

College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai , India

Network management, SNMP , CMIP
SEMI Equipment data acquisition protocols (Interface A, SECS/GEM)
Windows System programming , Volume Shadow Copy provider, Device driver development , VAIO
DevOps, CI/CD
Perforce, Git , Clear case , Jenkins

6 patents from US patent office

Principal Engineer - NetApp Inc

12.2005 - Current

Technical Architect - iLink Systems Inc

01.2004 - 12.2005

Senior Software Engineer - HCL Technologies

12.2002 - 12.2003

Software Engineer - Siemens Inc

05.2000 - 12.2002

College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University - Bachelors in Engineering,

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