Manish Pandey
Greter Boston Area,US
Summary
Hands on Technical Architect, problem solver, team player with 18+ years of experience. Passionate about building teams & applications with quality, from ground up and working with multiple teams/product management/customers/stakeholders across geographies.
Developed comprehensive skill set in collaborative engineering environment, focusing on system design and project management. Demonstrates proven ability to lead cross-functional teams and drive innovative solutions. Seeking to transition into new field, leveraging expertise to deliver impactful results in varied contexts.
Overview
19
19
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Principal Engineer – VCF
Broadcom Software India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2023 - Current
- Company Overview: acquired VMware
- Leading a team of 15 engineers in India to architect/design new features on SDDC Manager Product/VCF
- Helping improve development productivity
- Peer Reviews/Design Reviews/FS/One Pager Reviews for team members
- Mentoring Junior Engineers
- Stakeholder Management including Product management, Executive management, Program management
- Collaborating across business units/teams for technical discussions
- Individually working on Customer Calls/Escalations/Bugs
- Responsible for owning the entire Lifecycle Management Subsystem from Bangalore
- Part of Architect Forum/Managing different stakeholders like PM’s/Sr Directors/ Release Managers/ System Testing/User Experience / Cross Business Unit teams
- Acquired VMware
Lead Engineer/Staff Engineer – VCF Lifecycle Management
VMware India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2021 - Current
- Leading a team of 15 engineers in India to develop new critical features
- Code Reviews/Design Reviews for team members
- Mentoring Junior Engineers
- Individually working on Customer Calls/Escalations/Bugs
- Responsible for owning the entire Lifecycle Management Subsystem from Bangalore
- Part of Architect Forum/Talking to Stakeholders like PM’s/Directors/xBU teams
Service Lead – VMware Cloud Backup as a Service
HPE Nimble Storage
05.2021 - 10.2021
- Designed/Developed components of Bring up of Cloud Appliance Store Once Micro Service
- Developed ER Diagram/ Workflows (Using UML) to illustrate interactions with other microservices
- Wrote API Spec/Proto Files/Design Documents
- Wrote Backend Code in Go Lang for First Run Wizard
- Ramped up a team of 3 engineers on the microservice
Software Architect/ Service Lead – Configuration Micro Service
HPE Nimble Storage
12.2020 - 05.2021
- Architected Configuration Micro Service
- Designed Micro Service Components
- Developed ER Diagram/ Workflows (Using UML) to illustrate interactions with other microservices
- Developed Mockups for Configuration UI
- Wrote API Spec/Proto Files/Design Documents
- Developed the micro service in Python
- Ramped up a team of 3 engineers on the microservice
UI Lead – Data Management for Kubernetes App(s)
HPE Nimble Storage
08.2020 - 11.2020
- Researched & Built out IA & workflows for feature set involving Data Management of Kubernetes Apps
- Created Mockups for the UI components used in workflows
- Developing UI features
UI Lead – Data Management
HPE Nimble Storage
01.2020 - 07.2020
- Developed the infrastructure feature components (Storage Systems/Infosight Registration/ Diagnostics/Software Upgrade/First Run Wizard)/ reusable core components in UI
- Owned & Led a team of 5 engineers to help them develop features within a tight deadline
- Implemented Agile Best Practices for the scheduled delivery
- Worked on Performance Improvement of Loading UI Features that poll the backend continuously
- Helped improve performance by more than 50%
Proof of Concept – Data Management
HPE Nimble Storage
10.2019 - 12.2019
- Worked on Serverless Deployment of Data Pipeline for Data Insights on AWS
- Wrote AWS Lambda functions using Python and Node JS to orchestrate Data Pipeline Workflow to process JSON and save it in AWS Redshift
- Integrated Amazon Quick Sight with Redshift to show Data Interpretations
Tech Lead – Nimble VMware Plugin
HPE Nimble Storage
08.2018 - 09.2019
- Designed/Developed new features namely Synch Replication, Html5 Plugin, Multi-Protocol Array Support(iSCSI/FC)
- Worked on Jetty Upgrade for the Array and Plugin for addressing Security Vulnerabilities - Ask from several existing customers
- Re-package SRA (VMware SRM Plugin by Nimble) as Docker image to run on SRM 8.2 Docker Framework, individually managed the release for SRA 5.0 – Manage Zero Day Support for VMware SRM as VMware Partner
- Developed UI (using Ember JS framework) for Context Native Actions for VVOL – RFE asked by few customers
- Led a team of 4 engineers to add features/enhancements to VMware Plugin
Tech Lead – NetApp Unified Appliance (VMware Storage Plugin)
NetApp India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2017 - 08.2018
- Worked to enhance NetApp VASA Provider Plugin transition to VVOL 2.0(implemented new APIs) to integrate NetApp Storage System with VMware v Center 6.5 to leverage additional storage capabilities of ONTAP (Storage System OS) – SPOC of all VVOL related queries by stakeholders
- Improved Performance of VASA Provider Plugin by optimizing Database Queries/ Reducing Lock Contentions/introducing parallelism/making APIs asynchronous/reducing CPU consumption/ removing redundant calls to DB/ONTAP – Performance increased by 50% for large enterprise customer reporting issues with scale environment
- Design/Develop Public REST API's from scratch, for the new Htm5 Unified Appliance (NetApp VP/VSC) to be consumed for Automation/UI and other VMware Eco system products
- – Ask from a Large Enterprise Customer
Tech Lead – v-SRX with VMware NSX
Juniper Networks India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2016 - 05.2017
- Research and Analyze the VMware NSX API’s needed for integration of Virtual Juniper Security Device (v-SRX)
- Researched and came up with the solution for bootstrapping the Security Appliance with VMware parameters
- Designed and Developed integration management solution from scratch, deployed with Juniper Security Director (Existing Management System for managing Application Layer Physical/Virtual Security Firewalls) with VMware NSX (SDN/SDSN)
- Feature enhancements for Juniper Network Director to support provisioning/orchestration of VLANs and other new features for VMware NSX/vSphere
Tech Lead – SAP Sales Solution Configurator
SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2015 - 02.2016
- Performance Optimization of SAP proprietary Rule Engine
- Understood modules involved in working of Rule Engine (Rule Grammar/Pattern Matching System/Truth Maintenance System)
Tech Lead – Juniper Network Director
Hughes Systique India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2013 - 08.2015
- Led a team for Full stack Development, at offshore in enhancing the product Juniper Network Director, involved in adding new features for Juniper Networks USA
- Worked on Performance Monitoring of Network (Wired/Wireless)
Senior Developer – Telenor Norway Mine Sider
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2010 - 10.2013
- Full Stack developer worked on adding new features for consumers of Web Application https://www.telenor.no/privat/mine-sider/ in complete Agile Development
Junior Developer – Alcatel Lucent Navis EMS
Wipro Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2006 - 08.2010
- Junior Engineer worked on development and enhancement for client Element Management Systems for Alcatel Lucent
Education
BTech - Computer Science
IET Lucknow
06-2006
Skills
- Micro Services Architecture
- Database Design
- Designing UI Information Architecture
- UI Design
- Mockups
- Development of Frontend Apps
- Development of Backend Apps
- Application Architecture
- Design
- Development
- Advanced Certificate in Gen AI
- Research and analysis
Languagesframeworks
- Java
- Python
- Go Lang
- ReactJS
- Node JS
- Ember JS
- Spring boot tech stack
- Fast API
- Llama Index
- Lang Chain
- RAG
Domain
- Management of Storage Virtualization
- Network Virtualization
- Security Virtualization
- Understanding of Data Analytics Pipeline
- Data Management of Apps (Bare Metal/VMWare/Kubernetes)
Toolstechnologies
- My SQL
- Postgres
- Kafka
- Vault
- G-RPC
- REST
- Open API Spec 3.0
- CI/CD – Helm/Kubernetes/Jenkins/Docker
- AWS Services – EC2/ EKS/ Lambda/ ECR/ RDS/RedShift/Serverless/ Istio Service Mesh/ PY Test/Cypress/Junit
- Spring
- Unix
- Mac
Certification
VMware Certified Network Professional, Generative AI
Timeline
Principal Engineer – VCF
Broadcom Software India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2023 - Current
Lead Engineer/Staff Engineer – VCF Lifecycle Management
VMware India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2021 - Current
Service Lead – VMware Cloud Backup as a Service
HPE Nimble Storage
05.2021 - 10.2021
Software Architect/ Service Lead – Configuration Micro Service
HPE Nimble Storage
12.2020 - 05.2021
UI Lead – Data Management for Kubernetes App(s)
HPE Nimble Storage
08.2020 - 11.2020
UI Lead – Data Management
HPE Nimble Storage
01.2020 - 07.2020
Proof of Concept – Data Management
HPE Nimble Storage
10.2019 - 12.2019
Tech Lead – Nimble VMware Plugin
HPE Nimble Storage
08.2018 - 09.2019
Tech Lead – NetApp Unified Appliance (VMware Storage Plugin)
NetApp India Pvt. Ltd.
06.2017 - 08.2018
Tech Lead – v-SRX with VMware NSX
Juniper Networks India Pvt. Ltd.
03.2016 - 05.2017
Tech Lead – SAP Sales Solution Configurator
SAP Labs India Pvt. Ltd.
08.2015 - 02.2016
Tech Lead – Juniper Network Director
Hughes Systique India Pvt. Ltd.
11.2013 - 08.2015
Senior Developer – Telenor Norway Mine Sider
Capgemini India Pvt. Ltd.
09.2010 - 10.2013
Junior Developer – Alcatel Lucent Navis EMS
Wipro Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
07.2006 - 08.2010
VMware Certified Network Professional, Generative AI
BTech - Computer Science
IET Lucknow
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