Srikanth Bemineni
Houston,TX
Summary
Accomplished senior Engineering Manager experienced in managing multiple solution architect projects to secure customer opportunities. Demonstrated expertise in designing, developing, and testing customer solutions on HP ProLiant servers. Proactively fosters relationships with customers' internal teams, providing support and guidance to ensure the delivery of solutions that consistently exceed expectations. Successfully leads teams through projects, effectively managing timelines and budgets while maximizing performance and achieving project objectives. At the core of the approach is an engineering mindset, meticulously analyzing every task from both engineering and business perspectives to drive organizational goals forward.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Engineering Manager (OEM, Service Providers, Major Accounts and Nutanix)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2023.06 - Current
- Led team of 10 engineers, 5 Solution architects, in theUS and India who provide technical engineering support to HPE customers and sales teams to win new opportunities
- I also lead five-member product management team to release OEM long-life SKU and custom product offerings to HPE customers
- I have worked on winning multimillion opportunities with OEM in Healthcare, manufacturing, Storage, and Defense customers
- Worked with customer C-suite management to close large deals for HPE
- Lead custom solution engineering group; we create tailored solutions for our customers to sell HPE products for potential huge revenue opportunities
- I have worked with customers to develop custom hardware; I spearheaded custom product creation from inception, development, NPI launch, and support
- These products developed for single customer soon became popular and were adopted by other HPE customers
- My product management team is involved in releasing new Nutanix DX products to our HPE customers
- My role involves close coordination with our hardware and sustenance engineering teams, a testament to thecollaborative nature of my work
- Together, we ensure release of quality products to our OEM customers
- Worked on developing custom solutions with Redfish and iLO(BMC)
- We have developed many Python scripts that our customers can readily use
- I have used Jira and Confluence tools to track engineering solution requests and share knowledge
- Worked on Storage performance enhancement solutions to improve SAS, SATA, and NVMe drive performance on Microchip and Broadcom RAID controllers
- I have experience working on Intel, AMD, Ampere, and NVidia HPE platforms
- Extensive knowledge of Nutanix Hyper Converged Infrastructure platforms
- My team works on releasing quality firmware for our HPE DX Nutanix platforms
- Over my five years working in OEMs, service providers, Major accounts, and Nutanix customers, I have gained extensive knowledge and skills in handling customer solutions from productization to discontinuation
- This experience has equipped me with a deep understanding of the industry and the needs of our customers, demonstrating my adaptability in handling change.
OEM Solution Architect (Engineering Program Manager)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2019.01 - 2023.05
- Provide custom-architected solutions for our HPE OEM customers and build proof of concepts for customer solutions built on the HPE platform
- I worked on many RFPs ranging from 500k- 60 million multi-year opportunities
- I am a strategic technology solution architect for a 2 billion revenue OEM organization at HPE
- Work with customers to implement Python Redfish, RAID controller optimization, NIC configuration, and other HPE hardware settings tailored to their software stack
- Presented OEM and HPE product offerings to CTOs and principal architects as part the customer presales activity
- Technically engage with our OEM customers and help their teams to implement their solutions on our platform
- I manage customer POC assignments to team members in the US and India, track them to completion, and technical guide and mentor team members
- Participate in future HPE platform architecture to align with OEM customer requirements
- I help customers move to Microservice architecture using Kubernetes and HPE Ezemeral
- Worked with customers to convert their Monolith to Kubernetes Microservices along with HPE Nimble storage integration for persistent volume
- Guide customers to migrate to Nutanix HCI solutions .
- I work on new product launches for our 300 million Nutanix partnership
- I worked with many banking, OTT media platforms, Healthcare, Telecom, data backup, Aerospace, cloud service providers, and Industrial automation equipment customers
- Received extraordinary contribution award twice in 2021.
Architect - HP Smart Update Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.01 - 2019.01
- Smart Update Manager (SUM) is a Firmware and Software update tool for HP ProLiant servers and its related server hardware like HP Integrated Lights-Out , Virtual Connect, Enclosure Onboard Administrator, and Network switches
- In addition, HP SUM also updates drivers and other HPE tools on Windows, Linux (RHEL, SUSE), and VMware ESXi servers
- As an architect, I interacted with many other teams to integrate Smart update managers into their products
- I worked with customers to resolve their queries and was also involved in the presales activity to demo our product capabilities
- Designed the new update strategy for the latest Gen 10 HPE servers
- I interfaced with customers to resolve their issues and supported clients like Aetna, State Farm, Barclay's, Bloomberg, and Rabo Bank
- I presented our product and interacted with customers at Tech Talks and Blade Ambassador meetings, going through their concerns and collecting feedback to improve our product
- I architected the capability of updating multiple HPE hardware in a single go
- We can update 2000+ servers in batches
- We support updating many Linux OSs like RHEL, SLES, and CentOS
- Added support for VMware ESXi interacting with VMware HPE WBEM providers
- In the latest revision, I worked with VMware to integrate SUM with vSphere 7.0, providing HSM VM to update firmware on HPE servers
- The tool was capable of updating other HPE hardware like iLO, Virtual Connect, and Onboard Administrator(OA) using RestFul and SOAP interfaces
- Architected Jenkins environment to automate the build and test SUM using Selenium and Python for CI
- We also used the Coverity static code analysis tool on our source code to find any coding issues
- SUM client UI communicates with the backend server using RESTful APIs
- I was the principal architect of the RESTful-based APIs
- The core product architecture is implemented using QT(C++) and various open-source libraries like Mongoose web server, libssl/libcrypto, Pegasus, Openwsman, Jsoncpp, and curl library
- To develop the new version of the UI, we used HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and require.js as a JavaScript module loader
- I designed and implemented a new Active Record Design pattern library in C++ to interact with the SQLite database
- This allowed SUM to scale and update 1000's servers in a single session
- I worked on enabling SUM to be FIPS 140-2 compliant to adhere to federal customers.
Architect - Custom SPP Portal
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.01 - 2019.01
- I designed the custom SPP portal, which helps users customize SPP before downloading the reduced-size product
- This was deployed on a Kubernetes cluster running on the OpenStack private cloud
- When a new SPP was released, we used to get more than 10,000 hits per day to create new custom SPPs
- I designed the application with distributed Rabbit MQ, CouchDB, and a Flask web server
- We deployed this in our internal OpenStack private cloud using Swift as our object store to save newly created user custom SPPs
- We interacted with HPE passport services to authenticate the customer
- In addition, we used to validate if the customer was authorized to customize and download the SPP in some scenarios.
Architect - Infosight Auto-update feature
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.01 - 2019.01
- Infosight is HPE's AI/ML-based infrastructure server management
- It monitors thousands of servers for critical events and alerts the customer
- It can also raise support cases and order replacement parts for failed hardware
- We actively train our models from the failed data and build models to predict and warn users before the hardware failure occurs
- I was involved in architecting the automatic update of servers managed by Infosight
- Currently, we monitor around 1.2 million servers for our customers
- Required inventory data from servers were pulled and stored on an Elastic Search DB for easy retrieval
- We pull the latest components applicable to a single server using the Custom SPP portal and compare them with the server's currently installed inventory data
- Once the FW/SW components list is calculated, we push the updates to the remote server via an OPA agent running at the customer's data center.
Senior System Software Engineer
KForce Technologies
2008.08 - 2011.01
- Analyzed and designed HP ProLiant server cross-platform system utilities, including system drivers, network devices, and firmware components
- Enhance performance by optimally using QT features
- Implemented different report generation features
- Implemented a new logging feature with GUI, which reports any problems in real-time across multiple nodes
- All logs were consolidated at a centralized logging location
- Performing the module testing on supported OSs.
Designer / Programmer
British Petroleum
2006.06 - 2006.11
- The aim of this project is to show that a High available MySql Cluster can be deployed on an Amazon Elastic Cloud network
- The application should be autonomous, should be able to detect node failure and automatically bring up nodes, and sync up the cluster with other nodes
- I was one of the early users of Amazon Electric cloud when the world did not even know what cloud meant to the industry
- I created Fedora Core AMI Images on Amazon Elastic Cloud with pre-installed MySQL Components
- I Implemented a Java application for auto-starting MySQL components like node, Manager, and the Server
- The application also keeps track of the load on the servers and starts the servers if any of the nodes fails
- I developed LVS Linux images for load sharing between the servers using Ultra Monkey
- Designed and partially implemented a Java-based administrative console to see the health of the whole system.
Module Leader
Wipro Technologies
2003.12 - 2006.11
- The project was an upgrade to be done to an old Seismic Fortran processing tool for Geophysicists
- I developed some of the tools, which included writing algorithms for processing the signals and designing the graphical user interface for all the tools, both existing and newly created tools in QT
- The old Fortran tool had a layout template for defining the parameters
- I developed a tool that parses the old design templates (cards), generates the basic skeleton code for my GUI framework, and generates the QT UI file; this eventually reduced the time to develop unique GUI tools by 70%
- In addition, I also designed custom widgets in QT for easy data input and visualization
- I also coordinated the offshore team for developing the tool GUI's.
Designer / Programmer
Wipro and Alcatel
2005.12 - 2006.05
- The main aim of this project is to reduce the OSM project compilation time; compiling the whole project used to take around 3 hours
- The entire development environment of all the developers was grid-enabled, where the time required to build the entire code was reduced to just 42 minutes using the grid middleware tool Condor(http://research.cs.wisc.edu/htcondor/)
- The solution was adaptable to any build environment, as long the whole project could be segmented into small jobs.
Software Engineer
HP
2003.12 - 2005.12
- HP NonStop Open System Management is HP's solution to challenge the enterprise-wide system serviceability and manageability for its NonStop S- series servers
- HP NonStop Open System Management logs and displays state changes
- Monitoring and evaluation take place online, keeping applications available to users
- HP NonStop Open System Management evaluates the system to identify potential problems, automates service calls, and provides closed-loop service
- HP NonStop Open System Management was based on the Industry-standard Common Interface Model (CIM) model
- I was involved in improving the server feature and enhancing the client's writing in Java
- I worked on the new design and development of the current product on the Yosemite (Intel) hardware.
Education
MBA - Product Management And Finance
University of Houston - Downtown
Houston, TX08.2025
Bachelor in Computer Science And Engineering - Computer Engineering
Vishveshwaraiah Technological University
Bangalore India01.2003
Skills
- Product management
- Solution development
- Business Development
- Forecasting and Budget planning
- Training and mentoring
- Vendor Sourcing
- Programming
- Mentoring
- Jira and Confluence
- SDLC
- Programming(C++,Javascript and Python)
- Git and GitHub
- Excel
Certification
- HPE leadership development program, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Qt certification, ICS (Integrated Computer Solutions), 2010
- Certified AWS Solution Architect
- Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide
Timeline
Senior Engineering Manager (OEM, Service Providers, Major Accounts and Nutanix)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2023.06 - Current
OEM Solution Architect (Engineering Program Manager)
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2019.01 - 2023.05
Architect - HP Smart Update Manager
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.01 - 2019.01
Architect - Custom SPP Portal
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.01 - 2019.01
Architect - Infosight Auto-update feature
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
2016.01 - 2019.01
Senior System Software Engineer
KForce Technologies
2008.08 - 2011.01
Designer / Programmer
British Petroleum
2006.06 - 2006.11
Designer / Programmer
Wipro and Alcatel
2005.12 - 2006.05
Module Leader
Wipro Technologies
2003.12 - 2006.11
Software Engineer
HP
2003.12 - 2005.12
MBA - Product Management And Finance
University of Houston - Downtown
Bachelor in Computer Science And Engineering - Computer Engineering
Vishveshwaraiah Technological University
- HPE leadership development program, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
- Qt certification, ICS (Integrated Computer Solutions), 2010
- Certified AWS Solution Architect
- Docker and Kubernetes: The Complete Guide
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