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Shailesh Mittal

Santa Clara,CA

Summary

I have 20+ years of experience in designing and implementing Distributed Systems. Recent work includes building Distributed Storage System at Facebook(Meta) and Datera. Designed Storage framework for Kubernetes. Past experience includes building System Manageability and Cloud-computing solutions across various flavors of Cisco UCS and HP-UX systems. Led the development of intent-driven, data provisioning, placement, and recovery workflows for Large-scaled multi-exabyte Facebook Blob Store. Worked across different domains like virtualization and networking solutions on Unix for open and closed sourced systems. I believe, with domain expertise in Distributed Systems, Cloud Computing and Infrastructure Manageability along with systems background, product development expertise and leadership skills, I will be able to make significant contributions to the organizations in a similar domain.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager and Senior Staff

Facebook(Meta)
02.2021 - Current
  • Responsible for Managing, Designing and Architecture of Storage Cloud (UBS) for Facebook Blob Storage (40 EB Storage foot-print)
  • Redesigned Facebook’s Asynchronous Bulk Data Transfer Service
  • Led cross-functional teams for successful product development, ensuring timely delivery and adherence to specifications.
  • Enhanced overall team productivity with continuous training and mentoring of junior engineers.
  • Simpler API-driven consumption model - Single consistent interface to convey Storage requirements for various Facebook products (Instagram, Video, Whatsapp, AI etc)
  • Tenancy awareness, Workload-driven system – No adhoc/hot workflows
  • Better Monitoring and Resource prioritization across workflows
  • Improved Reliability and predictability
  • Drove MRDR strategy across entire storage stack
  • Directly managed a team of 12 Engineers
  • Delivered $100M+ of Storage efficiency wins last year

Founding engineer, Director of Engineering, Senior Architect

Datera Inc (Acquired By VmWare)
09.2014 - 02.2021
  • Responsible for Design, Architecture and Implementation for Datera Storage Systems Control Plane (A Profile/Policy driven distributed system) as well as covering UX with UI team.
  • Managed/Led a team of 35 engineers (Control Plane, Data Plane, UI) to deliver Datera Storage System releases from October 2017 until February 2021
  • Designed and implemented Remote Replication to Remote Object Storage (S3 based object stores, Google/Amazon public cloud data-stores, Objects or other Datera system), Continuous Replication (Asynchronous) across Datera clusters
  • Designed and implemented optimized data placement algorithms for efficient and effective data distribution across multiple nodes in Datera cluster
  • Designed and implemented interruption free Data recovery lifecycle (repair) and consistency checks mechanism
  • Designed and implemented QoS limits (IOPS and BW) at block device layer
  • Datera storage driver for Docker and Kubernetes. Founding Member of sig-storage group for Kubernetes community, working on reviewing and providing inputs for major features around storage
  • Wrote Multiple blogs and showcased technology

System Architect / Senior Technical Lead

Nuova Systems (Acquired By Cisco Systems Inc)
08.2009 - 09.2014
  • Principal architect for UCS Central. Responsible for Designs, Architecture and Implementation for UCS-Central (Global Management Suite for multiple UCS Domains) as well as covering UX with UI team.
  • Participating in road-map generation and implementation for Cisco UCS-Central with technical marketing team.
  • Primary ownership for UCS Central system architecture, global service profiles, policy resolution framework, global schedulers, licensing implementation in single UCSM and Multi-UCSM environments.
  • E2E diagnostics, UCSM Licensing, Involved in designing tools to trouble-shoot UCSM systems for customers. Extensive customer interaction and product representation with partners (sales, marketing)

Tech Lead/Analyst

Hewlett Packard Labs (R&D)
10.2004 - 08.2009
  • Responsible for defining release out-lines (including scope estimation) and defining project plans for SFM (WBEM based online diagnostics solution).
  • Complete ownership for enabling SysFaultMgmt on new generation blades and rack based servers (Intel TukWila™ processor based).
  • Engaged with WTEC support (Technical support at level 3) group in HP for diagnostics to handle customer escalations.
  • Led SFM team successfully through March 2008, March 2009 and Sep 2009 release of HP-UX 11i v3. My responsibilities also include managing a team of 15 engineers during this release.

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Rajasthan

Skills

  • Engineering Manager and Senior Staff, Led efforts in building Storage Cloud like solution for Facebook Blob Storage and Asynchronous Bulk Data Replication Platform
  • Founding Architect, Director of Engineering responsible for designing control plane and services for Datera Distributed storage system Managed a team of 30 engineers
  • Principle Architect for UCS Central (Federated UCSM)
  • Well experienced in the manageability products across CISCO and HP-UX platforms which includes HP virtualization products for IVM, vPar and nPar
  • Strong understanding of Cloud Storage, Cisco UCS and HP server portfolio and virtualization stack
  • Deep Understanding and implementation experience of Resource Management Solutions like Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos etc
  • Involved in Self-healing initiatives for infrastructure manageability solutions
  • Worked with HP Data Center Assessment team to provide recommendations to achieve better RoI from a data center
  • Led HP-UX 11iv3 and 11iv2 release for Online Diagnostics Solution (SysFaultMgmt) for next generation HP blade servers
  • Primary POC for customer queries and escalations from major accounts on Datera, HP and Cisco Server Manageability solutions
  • Involved in show-casing the virtualization solutions to the customers with HP pre-sales team
  • Constantly engaged in educating pre-sales and field teams on Manageability Solutions and Virtualization Stack across Datera, Cisco and HP servers
  • Strong knowledge of software methodologies and Quality Processes Detailed exposure to Infrastructure Manageability protocols like WBEM/CIM
  • Project Management
  • Engineering Design
  • Coaching and Mentoring

Highlights

  • Responsible for designing Storage Cloud for Facebook Blob Storage Solution and Asynchronous Bulk Data Transfer Service.
  • Founding architect for Datera Control Plane. Designed the blueprints and developed the core system for data placement, recovery and replication.
  • Led a team of 30+ engineers in Datera, driving UI/UX, Control-plane and Data-plane features.
  • Principal Architect for Datera’s eco-system strategy to work best with frameworks like Kubernetes, Docker/Swarm and Mesos.
  • Designed Storage for Kubernetes – Control plane and policy abstractions
  • Designed and delivered Cisco UCS Central Management solution (drove UCS revenue 5x in ~2 years) for Cisco UCS domains.
  • Enabled a deal worth ~80 Million USD for Wal-mart account for purchasing Itanium server purchase from HP, after achieving excellent results for the ported application for pharmacy modules (migrated from IBM PDX on AIX to Enterprise Linux on HP-UX Itanium servers).
  • Led a team of 15 engineers for delivering Manageability Solution for HP-UX servers for 11iv3/v2 releases from January 2007 till August 2009.
  • Handled major escalations successfully from RIM (Research in Motion) and Samsung for Manageability stack failures for Hewlett Packard.

Technology Skills

HP-UX, Linux, MS-Windows, Solaris, MS-DOS, C++, C, GO, Shell script, Expect, Java (Core), ESQL, VB, iSCSI, Model Driven Architectures, CIM, DMTF WBEM, SMASH, WS-MAN, OOAD, Design Patterns, CORBA, Wireless LANs, TCP/IPv4 (and v6), H.323, SIP/SDP, ACPI, IPMI, EFI, SM-BIOS, Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Agile development process, Voice over Wireless LAN (VoW), GDB, DBX, CVS, ClearCase, MS-Visio, UML, Rational Rose, Enterprise Architect, Rational Purify Plus

Trainer Experience

  • Trainer for HP VSE (Virtual Server Environment).
  • Trainer for HP’s “Infrastructure Manageability Solutions” to pre-sales and lab.
  • Attended a work-shop on “High Performance Teams”.

Awards

Special mention from the GNOME (Open Source) community for providing excellent porting from IPv4 to IPv6 of Gnome modules and libraries on Linux and Solaris platform in Gnome-2.4 release. (http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/notes/rnthanks.html)

Patents (Publications); 

  • Cloud-based Resource Availability Calculation of a Network Environment (Granted – US9565130)
  • Determining availability of networking resources prior to migration of a server or domain (Granted - US9712455)
  • Method and Apparatus of deploying a logical workload from the cloud across datacenter using global service profiles (Granted – US9973380)
  • System and Method to provide seamless data placement, data movement and data management into cloud (Granted - US20180217866A1)
  • System and method for an improved placement of storage nodes in network (Granted - US10505813B2)
  • System and Method for translating resource requirement of application into tangible infrastructure resources (Granted - US20180217866)
  • System and method for computing the migration sphere to restrict migration of 'global' resources in a cloud based datacenter (US20160087910)
  • Printer neighborhood for efficient recovery of print jobs due to failures in printer (Research Disclosure)
  • Effective transmission with Bluetooth and IPv6
  • GeNextE: a voice based system management using WBEM (Research Disclosure)
  • Environmental savvy – power saver module
  • A method for governing SLAs
  • Optimizing Kubernetes Storage for Production (DZone)

Timeline

Engineering Manager and Senior Staff

Facebook(Meta)
02.2021 - Current

Founding engineer, Director of Engineering, Senior Architect

Datera Inc (Acquired By VmWare)
09.2014 - 02.2021

System Architect / Senior Technical Lead

Nuova Systems (Acquired By Cisco Systems Inc)
08.2009 - 09.2014

Tech Lead/Analyst

Hewlett Packard Labs (R&D)
10.2004 - 08.2009

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Rajasthan

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