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Ravi Kiran Patlolla

Folsom,CA

Summary

Result oriented Hardware Customer Platform Integration lead bringing 15+ years of extensive engineering experience in enabling customers with X86, ARM and storage-based products on server and client platforms which include Microsoft, HPE, Oracle, Baidu, Alibaba, Tencent. Currently working as Platform Validation Sysdebug Customer lead for Datacenter Customers – Stress and Stability validation.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Customer Platform Validation Lead - Xeon

Intel Corporation
08.2021 - Current

Role : Customer Platform Validation Lead

  • Partnered with customers to evaluate hardware BOM, schematics, and delivered strategic communication to streamline integration of Intel's advanced Granite Rapid's platform.
  • Streamlined server farm operations by closely working with Datacenter PAEs to integrate Intel and customer server platforms, focusing on stress and stability validation. Resulted in enhanced performance and stability, driving operational efficiency.
  • Collaborated with Intel validation teams to successfully bring up the Granite Rapids server platform, executing early stress and stability checkout; identified and resolved Si and platform bugs, ensuring robust product performance and customer satisfaction.
  • Led a high-performing debug team as the Sysdebug lead for early Granite Rapids bring up; successfully replicated and triaged stress and stability issues, resulting in a 40% reduction in critical system bugs.
  • Spearheaded the design and implementation of a robust fleet architecture and cloud farm for Intel's validation team, utilizing Kubernetes, Kafka, Kibana, and Docker methodologies; achieved a 40% improvement in system performance and reduced infrastructure costs by 30%.

Product Development Engineer, Enterprise SSD’s

Intel Corporation
03.2012 - 07.2021

Role : Hardware Product System Integration Lead

  • Engaging with firmware, software teams, marketing, debug, planning and product development teams help productize Intel SSD’s
  • Drive system debug, set priorities, unblock and debug various issues related to SSDs
  • Drive security development life cycle across multiple different SSD products
  • Debug and drive complicated and challenging SSD issues that are not just platform, tool, firmware, protocol level and electrical issues with various teams across the organization.
  • Built validation teams, infrastructure, execution and debug capabilities for sustaining products across multiple geo locations.

Product Engineer

Mutex Systems
06.2007 - 12.2010

Role : Automation and Validation Engineer

  • Involved in platform, power and product validation of the latest motherboards, USB based PCI-e WiFi and WiMAX mini cards.
  • Responsible for platform validation of mobile and netbook customer reference boards
  • Measured electrical power, CPU power states, temperature and USB traces
  • Compared and analyzed WiMAX and 3G data on mobile and netbook platforms in various scenarios at different transmission power levels
  • Identified and root caused the failures for various test cases

Role : Mobile TV Product Validation

  • Worked on DigitalTV, validated the product according to the validation plan for various test cases
  • Improved and ran the existing scripts to automate the analysis of power measurements from NetDAQ Fluke.

Role : Validation Engineer

  • ·Developed the techniques for data movement from SQL Server to Teradata.
  • Analyzed, automated and validated the data flow, correctness and size of data.

Education

MSEE -

Portland State University
Portland, OR
12.2006

BSEE -

University of Madras
Tamil Nadu, India
12.2003

Skills

  • Operating Systems: Windows, Linux
  • Instruments: Oscilloscopes, Logic Analyzer
  • Protocol/Tools: GHS, UART, WinDbg, LeCroy, JDSU
  • Protocol/Tools: SerialTek, Quarch, Drive Master, Medusa, FIO, IOMETER
  • Team Building
  • Workplace Organization
  • Root Cause Analysis
  • Training and Development
  • Problem Solving
  • Project Management
  • Process Optimization
  • Clear Communication
  • Employee Surveying
  • Relationship Building
  • Quality Assurance
  • Client Retention
  • Employee Relations
  • Training Program Development

Accomplishments

  • Received division recognition award for successful product delivery to the customers
  • Mentor high school kids as part of STEM program in school projects

Timeline

Customer Platform Validation Lead - Xeon

Intel Corporation
08.2021 - Current

Product Development Engineer, Enterprise SSD’s

Intel Corporation
03.2012 - 07.2021

Product Engineer

Mutex Systems
06.2007 - 12.2010

MSEE -

Portland State University

BSEE -

University of Madras
Ravi Kiran Patlolla