Venkata Rao Duddukuri

Dynamic Storage Engineer with proven expertise at Mindteck Inc in storage management and network configuration. Successfully implemented high availability clusters and automated testing processes, enhancing system reliability. Skilled in data validation and troubleshooting, I excel in driving efficiency and fostering collaboration within engineering teams.

DAS, SAN, NAS, RAID, SSD, NVMe, SAS, SATA, SCSI, iSCSI, CIFS, NFS, VMware vSphere, vCenter, Windows, RHEL, VMware ESXi, PYTHON, IOmeter, LDX, Wireshark, Hammer

5+ years of Experience as a Storage & Virtualization Engineer., Good experience on storage domains like DAS, SAN and NAS., Good knowledge on storage protocols like SAS, SCSI, SATA, SSD and NVMe., Hands on experience in iSCSI, NFS and good knowledge about CIFS., Hands on experience in PYTHON scripting., Good experience in Linux., Hands on experience in VMware Virtualization (ESXi) features like vMotion, svmotion, xVMotion, High Availability (HA), Fault Tolerance (FT), DRS, Snapshot, Template and Clone., Hands on experience on VAAI Plugin w.r.to VMware ESXi., Managing vCentre using vSphere client., Hands on experience in VM’s migration and Storage migration., Experience in RAID and its features like ORCE (Online RAID Capacity Expansion), ORLM (Online RAID Level Migration) and Hot-spare., Good experience on Writing, Reviewing and Executing Test Cases., Good knowledge in Testing phases, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Test Life Cycle (STLC) and Agile testing model., Involved in Functional testing and Regression testing., Hands on experience on REST API Testing., Executed testcases on the core functionalities of Catalogic DPX (Backup and Recovery Product)., Good knowledge on HDD, SSD, NVMe, PCIe drivers., Good understanding on BIOS, BMC, NIC, DIMM, CPU, FPGA., Knowledge of PC hardware components and operating systems (Windows and Linux)., Good knowledge on AWS., Experience in working NetApp Lab filers hardware/software testing.