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Vasudeva Dasu

Redmond,WA

Summary

Customer-focused hardware systems/applications engineer with practiced expertise selling technical solutions in business-to-business environments. Researches and understands complex and system-wide customer needs and proposes and explains optimum solutions. Builds lasting and mutually beneficial relationships with key customers.

Overview

6
6
years of professional experience

Work History

Senior Field Applications Engineer

ZT Systems
Seattle, WA
07.2021 - 05.2024
  • Developed technical relationships with target customer base
  • Won new server design and business opportunities with target customers
  • Supported customer engineering teams throughout server development process
  • Drove customer feedback into internal sales, business unit and engineering teams
  • Collaborated with internal Sales, Architecture, Development, CTO, Business Unit, and other relevant teams as needed to accomplish account goals.
  • Kept abreast of the competitive landscape and clearly articulate the technical differentiation and value proposition associated with ZT versus its competitors.
  • Assisted with the solution development/architectural design to meet specific customer needs.
  • Articulated and positioned company based technology offerings across multiple verticals (e.g. High performance computing,Storage, Networking,Telco)

Technical skillsets demonstrated in the role:

  • Firm understanding of platform development process from concept to production.
  • Proficient in server bringup ecosystem (ie: debug tools, development tools and validation workloads).
  • Knowledgeable in platform features (BIOS, BMC, PCIE,NVME).
  • Hands-on experience and strong focus e in server hardware ecosystem at the node, rack and datacenter level.
  • Demonstrated knowledge and experience in the setup and configuration of server systems including software, networking and storage infrastructure.

Hardware Engineer

Veritas Technologies LLC
Minneapolis, MN
07.2018 - 06.2021
  • Efficiently executed hardware performance testing and monitoring at a component level- power, thermal, memory and published results
  • Carried out HDD,SSD, RAID and erasure coding activities and ran reliability tests to scrutinize the hardware performance.
  • Interact and exchange performance data points with multinational OEM partners to tune hardware to best suit customer and datacenter workloads.
  • Drove triage and root cause analysis for customer and datacenter escalation issues.
  • Collaborated in a cross functional environment with systems and automation test teams to drive and deliver hardware diagnostics test plan and optimization.

Technical skillset demonstrated in this role:

  • Server technology and architecture
  • Enterprise servers and storage systems configuration such as network, storage, out of band management and monitoring.
  • Testing and debugging
  • Scripting and running validation tests for checking server performance.

Education

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA
06-2018

Skills

  • Proven track record in CPU and server system architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and server platform enablement
  • Broad technical understanding of server CPUs, platform architecture and the development process needed to successfully bring a server-based product to production
  • Excellent problem-solving, time-management, prioritization, and organizational skills, able to lead complex problems, involving multi-disciplined, multi-functional teams and many priorities at once
  • Excellent collaborative skills, and ability to work independently or as part of a team
  • Outstanding oral and written communication skills and demonstrated success in building strong technical relationships (internal: Sales, Marketing, Engineering and external: OEM)

Timeline

Senior Field Applications Engineer

ZT Systems
07.2021 - 05.2024

Hardware Engineer

Veritas Technologies LLC
07.2018 - 06.2021

Master of Science - Electrical Engineering

Drexel University
Vasudeva Dasu