Gracy

Storage Engineer with 8+ years designing, automating, and qualifying storage and object-storage solutions across on-prem and cloud platforms. Hands-on experience with S3-compatible object storage (IBM COS, Ceph S3, OCI Object Storage), Big Data/Hadoop-adjacent data platform workloads, Infrastructure-as-Code with Terraform, CI/CD pipeline automation (Jenkins), and Python-based automation frameworks. Skilled in storage performance tuning, lifecycle policy management, data security/encryption controls, and cost/capacity optimization across AWS and multi-cloud environments.

• Agile
• Amazon Web Services
• Souci du détail
• Tests automatisés
• CI/CD
• Communication
• Docker
• Git
• GitHub
• Google Cloud
• Jira
• Leadership
• Linux
• Microsoft Azure
• Résolution de problèmes
• Gestion de projet
• Python
• Assurance qualité
• Collecte des exigences
• Scrum
• Travail d’équipe
• Terraform
• Gestion du temps

1. Storage QA Engineer

   IBM India Pvt. Ltd.

   juill. 2023 to Aujourd’hui

   Pune, India

   • Design and validate object storage workflows for AFM (Active File Manager) on GPFS-based clusters, supporting S3-compatible backends including IBM COS, Ceph S3, and MinIO. • Configure and test data export/import (home) operations, reconcile, outbound sync, prefix-based access, and 2K metadata support across multi-cloud object storage (IBM COS, Azure, Ceph). • Build and maintain Python-based automation frameworks to qualify storage feature releases, improving test coverage and reducing manual validation effort. • Collaborate with development teams to define storage performance benchmarks and lifecycle behavior for large-scale data platform workloads.

2. Senior Software Development Engineer

   Oracle India Pvt. Ltd.

   janv. 2022 to janv. 2023

   Bengaluru, India

   • Automated system-level test cases validating ZFSSA storage product features, including performance, data integrity, and lifecycle operations. • Enhanced Python3-based automation framework to support OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure) API features, extending object storage and compute test coverage. • Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure using Terraform (IaC) to build VM shapes on OCI, enabling repeatable, version-controlled test environments. • Used OCI CLI to automate provisioning and validation workflows, reducing manual setup time for test cycles. • Executed protocol-level test suites (SMB/NFS) using Defensics; generated appliance stress workloads using LDX for capacity and resiliency testing. • Diagnosed and resolved critical issues during disk, ILOM, and IOM firmware upgrade/degradation cycles.

3. Senior Project Engineer

   Wipro Limited

   janv. 2016 to janv. 2022

   Kolkata, India

   • Project: Riverbed Technology • Maintained and qualified storage automation frameworks (Perl/Python) for SteelFusion products; extended framework support for new storage array versions. • Built Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate regression jobs and integrated OpenStack VM instances with Jenkins to trigger continuous integration test runs. • Executed qualification suites against enterprise storage arrays (NetApp, HP3PAR, EMC Unity, Pure Storage, MS StorSimple) to validate LUN provisioning and cross-array compatibility. • Automated backup and restore validation using Veeam, CommVault, and Avamar; tracked results and defects in TestRail and JIRA. • Project: Hewlett Packard Enterprise • Automated SMB/CIFS (NAS) protocol test cases in Python, including File Access Auditing Event CLI validation. • Configured Jenkins jobs to run SMB protocol (Pike Test) and memory-leak detection (Valgrind) automation; built shell scripts to support multi-module CI regression. • Set up automated weekly reporting for memory-leak analysis and CI health, improving release-quality visibility for stakeholders.

1. Birla Institute of Science and Technology

   Master of Technology, Software Engineering

   Pilani, India

   2016 to 2020

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Foundations Associate