Saurabh Talwar

• Led technical engagement in Kubernetes troubleshooting, Helm deployments, & container observability across clients.

• Built and delivered custom Proof of Concepts aligning Instana APM and Turbonomic with customer DevOps goals.

• Consulted customers on DevOps cloud governance, resulting in optimized autoscaling strategies and significant cost savings.

• Delivered technical enablement sessions to DevOps and SRE teams on performance monitoring, security posture, and CI/CD observability.

• Supported Enterprise Sales through POCs, RFPs, demos, business justifications and technical win strategies.

• Evangelized New Relic APM and Infrastructure solutions at webinars and customer on-sites, helping accelerate DevOps adoption.

• Collaborated closely with Engineering to enhance observability integrations with DevOps workflows including CI/CD pipelines and Dockerized applications.

• Assist the Customer Success team the post-sales technical process: installation, deployment, training, technical check-ups, and escalation management.

• Writing White Papers & reference architectures for applications Solutions working with Pure Flash arrays

• Worked on vRealize Operations Manager & resolved customer issues related to vRealize Operations Manager

• Presenting at VMworld and other conferences on vRealize Suite products

• Worked on configuring PureStorage Arrays with UCS B Series servers using UCS Director and UCSM

• Engaging with Customer issues and assisting them with solutions on various virtualization problems

• Drive the usage of the product via webinars, user groups, & blogs

• Application knowledge in terms of installation, tuning of IO patterns for competitive benchmarking

• Worked on Openstack Cluster with the Cinder API to enable the Flashmax Card to Cinder volumes

• Working knowledge of FIO, IOmeter, vdbench to benchmark SSDs (FlashMaxII, Gallantfox cards)

• Designed/Configured Powershell & bash scripts to generate IO & measure performance for benchmarking

• Developed technical collateral to highlight Reference Architectures, Functional Validation and Best Practices

• Perform technical competitive analysis & deliver competitive positioning tools to Sales teams

• Attended Conferences like FlashMAX Summit, VMWorld & OracleWorld to showcase our solutions, enable Sales engineers to get leads for prospective sales

• Create and present technical presentations to customers and partners, and gather feedback during customer proof of concept to influence final product definition and solution offerings

• Gave Demos to Sales Engineering team at Dell about new features being added to Active System manager

• Prepare reports & presentations to communicate analysis findings, root cause analysis in design

• Configured various Dell PowerConnect switches such as 6248, 5548P, 5524P

• Analyzed network to determine major problems preventing booting of servers with different OS

• Configured LUNs (Logical Unit Devices) on SAN Storage Arrays

• Configured/administered various Dell servers such as R620, C5220 (Cloud servers)

• Experience with Data center virtualization using Hyperv and ESX applications

• Configured, managed test systems (Blades in Chassis, rack mounted servers, switches) in lab

• Technical QA lead for Complete testing of Software releases and resolving customer issues.

• Work closely with Product Management, Program Management, Development and Operations on the design, implementation, testing, deployment and support of products and features

• Critically think about how our customers will interact with Adobe's products (InMarket) and turn those thoughts into test cases, action items, and avenues of discussion

• Participate as an active member of a Scrum team, including the planning, scheduling and validation aspects of the project & accurately file and verify comprehensive bug reports.

• Worked closely with Engineering managers, Supply Chain, Operations, QA, and release management to insure that releases are completed to spec and are ready for production

• Ensured entrance & exit criteria from Smoke Testing & certified code base for production

• Execute pre-production activities such as Smoke/Acceptance Test runs, the formation of the implementation checklist, back-out plans, peer Reviews communication of go no go decisions

• Designed Test Plans, scripts to validate functionality, requirements for different subsystems of BradleyTank.

• Worked closely with Engineering to understand Product Architecture & worked on identifying, designing or enhancing existing test frameworks to support backend test development
• Prepare reports and presentations to communicate analysis findings, root cause analysis in design or implementation, research plans, or plans for product development efforts
• Qualified various release branches concurrently using & maintained Build process to expedite SQA Testing