ANURAG MODI
Solutions architect, 15 years exp in CI/HCI, Data Storage (SAN/NAS/DAS/CAS), Virtualization, Cloud (AWS,
Private cloud). Involved in all phases of STLC / SDLC, worked in SAFe, TDD, BDD, waterfall methodologies.
Hands-on with python, perl, shell, powershell for automation. Worked on customer focus, client
communications, been spokesperson of the teams, understanding requirements, doing performance
reviews / appraisals, conflict resolutions, mentoring, pre-sales, POCs, RFP, competitive analysis, etc.
PERSONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Name
Anurag Modi
Sep 2021 - Present Engineering Manager
Address
Persistent Systems Ltd., Pune
C/o Mr. Anil Modi, F-25, Rishinagar,
Madhya Pradesh Work as Technical Manager and or Architect with the team being a SME for
456010 Ujjain Data Storage, Infrastructure, Virtualization, Backup, CI & HCI, Workloads.
Phone number This is for an Enterprise Class product of backup.
+91-9663943441 Worked with UI design, frontend, backend, automation and CI‑CD‑CT
Email teams.
anuragamodi@[Link] Managing above teams of size 20‑22 members.
Date of birth Prioritizing the backlogs for various components.
31-05-1985 Responsible for resolving showstoppers or getting it to resolution.
Gender Being client advocate as well as spokesperson of the team.
Male Reviewing the PRs and helping team members in resolution of the review
Nationality comments.
Indian Worked with workloads like VMware, RHEV, Storage, MS SQL, etc for
interfaces like GUI / WebUI / CLI / API.
Marital status
Married Worked with CI team to have automated pipelines in Jenkins and
deployments using ansible.
LinkedIn
[Link] Feb 2021 - Jul 2021 Staff Engineer
Seagate, Pune
INTERESTS Work as Staff Engineer for its Enterprise Scale Object‑store product line for
Data Storage - SAN / NAS / DAS / scalability and interoperability verticals.
Object-Store Planned to work for scalability from 2 ‑ 16 node cluster.
Virtualization - VMware, Hyper-V, Planned work for interoperability for multiple form‑factors viz
heterogeneous clouds (AWS, MS Azure, Openstack).
RHEV
python, perl, shell, powershell
Converged Infrastructure & Hyper May 2020 - Feb 2021 Senior Solutions Architect for Storage and Backup
Fujitsu, Pune
Converged Infrastructure
Agile, SAFe, TDD, BDD Key features/use cases of Storage‑Backup‑Cloud that were developed and
tested for:
Clustering, Remote Infrastructure
Devise, develop and maintain overall infrastructure to ensure RPO and
Management, DR, RPO, RTO
RTO for production environments.
High availability, fault tolerance, de- Work on FDD, HLDD, LLDD, and process documents.
duplication DR planning and DR activity ensuring no DU‑DL.
Negotiations, Conflict Resolution, Work using service‑now for change and incident management.
Manage People management, Team Building, motivating & managing
Crisis management, Problem
Virtual Cross Functional Teams in agile methodology.
Solving, Customization Support
Customization Support, Engineering Mar 2018 - Mar 2020 Solutions Architect
management and Product Calsoft, Pune, Bangalore
management. NetApp Converged Systems Advisor is a management dashboard, monitoring
Design, New Product Development, and tracking tool for NetApp Flexpod Converged Infrastructure.
NetApp Hybrid Cloud Control / NetApp HCI is a scalable, on‑premises hybrid
DevOps, SRE, SaaS, Business
cloud infrastructure that transforms your private cloud into a deployable
analysis, Data analysis.
region of your multicloud. Bring your public cloud on‑premises and develop
Quality Control, designing software anywhere, on any cloud, with one experience.
test strategies, processes & metric Key features/use cases of CSA & CI that were developed and tested for:
measurements. A SaaS(Software As a Service) Web Portal
Escalation mgmt, Design/Code A downloadable agent from NetApp web, that will be run in the
review, Integration & Deployment customersʼ network. This was in the form of an OVA.
A Agent GUI that will be run as part of the agent. This allows the user to
Automation.
set up the agent.
Design & Requirement management
Engines that model data from physical hardware in the form of RDoc, a
with FDD, HLDD, LLDD, SRS, Risk proprietary data processing format invented for CSA.
mgmt, Metrics mgmt, RFI/RFP. A set of rules run against the engines that determine hardware and
Management, Strategic Planning, system health.
Budget, TM/FP Profit, revenue,
NetAppʼs ONTAPʼs release and patch teamʼs functional, regression, system
margins, ROI & utilization.
test and infrastructure qualifications.
Project planning, Project
Requirement was to provide support for CTL, migrate fBOTs to CITs and aid
management, Product in system test qualifications.
management, Technical manager. Engage and deliver Proof‑of‑Concepts (PoCs), trainings & product demos.
Development, Testing, Where required, co‑ordinate benchmarks, customer workshops etc.
Infrastructure & Sustenance, team Participate in client meetings and travel to client locations for SRS, RFP,
POC, pre‑sales and other activities.
management.
Planning the schedule and agreeing with stakeholders.
POC engagements, solution
Perform IC roles to kick‑off the project and ramp‑up the team with
demonstrations and technical required skills.
workshops. Taking KTs and starting the migrations for code in perl, python, bash from
fBOT to CIT for best optimizations.
Sharing the project status and forecast with key Stakeholders.
To provide necessary Technical training for Team members, Technical
leadership.
Involvement in Architecture governance process, by conducting or
participating in architecture reviews and workshops.
HGST/WDC's System test for their object‑store storage solution named
Activescale using BDD by enhancing their testhelper libraries to ensure ASW
S3 compliance.
Interact with customer to understand their requirements and plan it for
my team accordingly.
Test features available for ActiveScaleʼs S3 complaint offering set.
Lead development of testhelper APIs for activescale.
Contribute to execution / Bug verification / automation.
Sharing the project status for progress, dependencies and risks with key
Stakeholders.
Contribute to re‑usable documentation and information for greater
benefit of the client and the tea
Resolve or get it fixed for showstoppers / roadblocks of my team.
Active participation for design and code reviews.
May 2017 - Feb 2018 IME QA Engineer
DataDirect Networks, Pune
DataDirect Networkʼs IME(a HPC solution) validation on physical(for
performance) as well as AWS workloads(for scale \ Scalability aspect).
Understand HPC and its requirement for this role.
Test features available for Infinite Memory Engineʼs offering set.
Wrote new as well as custom set of APIs in python.
Qualification of deployment tool written using our APIs and ansible.
Contribute to execution / Bug verification / automation.
Acceptance runs for the test cases developed by the team
Leverage solid understanding of infrastructure in a data center such as
network, storage (SAN/NAS/DAS/CAS, Cloud Storage, etc.), Virtualization
& Cloud technologies.
Nov 2016 - Mar 2017 Principle Engineer
CloudSimple, Bangalore
CloudSimpleʼs proprietory offering from cloud services need to be validated
for Storage, Compute and Network for CSOS(CloudSimple OS) built using
INTEL's SPDK and DPDK.
Performed a mix of Leadership and IC role to ensure to have a strategic
planning for testing and execution.
Lead the team responsible for Functional, System, InterOp, R2F&
Exploratory.
Test features available for CSOS[CloudSimple OS] exposed over web
using REST API developed using microservices.
Participation in lab deployments and code reviews.
Responsible for addressing Non‑Functional Requirements issues like
security, availability, maintainability, scalability.
Acceptance runs for the test cases developed by the team.
May 2015 - Nov 2016 Senior Member of Technical Staff
VMware, Bangalore
Continuous Product Development(CPD) is a part of CPBU focusing on all
update and patch releases after any major release to ensure quality in
simultaneous release model approach. My role involved in leading efforts for
Core Storage features for all update and patch releases and customer
interaction for associated fixes.
Lead the team responsible for Core Storage related feature sets.
Contribute to execution / PR verification / automation.
Understand and Develop/update automated test cases for the
requirements.
Report Bugs of the tested platform and requirements.
Create library modules and add functions for the common recurrently
occurring tasks.
Write automation TC scripts using newly developed libraries and use
multithreading for better performance.
May 2013 - May 2015 Senior Software Engineer
Oracle, Bangalore
This project focused on automating the existing manual Test Cases so as to
reduce manual effort for testing legacy features providing room for manual
testers to concentrate on new builds / features.
Understand and Develop \ update automated test cases for the
requirements.
Report Bugs of the tested platform and requirements.
Create library modules and add functions for the common recurrently
occurring tasks.
Lead design discussions in team.
Contribute for VMware Certification of OFS individually.
Acceptance runs for the test cases developed by the team.
Understand SLAT (SubLunAutoTiering), as a new feature incorporated to
provide auto smart tiering of dynamic storage allocation according to
needs and automate testing involved.
Dec 2011 - May 2013 CSI Engineer
IP-Soft, Bangalore
The project CSI(Continual Service Improvements) was aimed in providing
automation solution using IP‑automata (workflow automation) for
Comcast's Storage, Backup and Virtualization needs. SOPs and M&Ps to be
provided for automation be respective teams working on those to facilitate
automation..
Automate the TCs as per SOPs provided.
Report Bugs of the tested issues and fix them or enhance them.
Use IP‑automata in conjunction of perl, shell, JS and powershell to create
automatons.
Acceptance runs for the test cases developed by the team.
Fix or update automations as per the CRs.
Client had a huge setup, automations were needed to be written so as to
improve efficiency <RPO & RTO>
New feature incorporated to provide auto smart tiering of dynamic
storage allocation according to the needs and automations were thus
required.
Jan 2011 - Nov 2011 Projects Associate
Cognizant, Bangalore
The EMC VPLEX is a virtual storage solution that implements a distributed
"virtualization" layer within and across geographically disparate storage
arrays acting as Storage Virtualization Device. This project's aim is to test and
qualify VMware ESX and VPLEX Metro High Availability solution. The ESX
hosts will have redundant connections to the VPLEX. All test cases require
the cluster Witness system to be functional.
Understand the requirement and VMware's existing framework and code
in perl.
Extend the framework and scripts to support metro cluster features.
Create library modules and add functions for the common SDU tasks.
Involved in Test Bed setup and upgrade‑revert operations for the ESX
hosts and clients.
Review peer's code and reports bugs found in testing.
May 2010 - Dec 2010 QA Engineer
Mindteck, Bangalore
The aim of the project was to develop automated scripts which will offer
common interface for 7‑mode and C‑mode filers using existing 7‑mode
scripts and libraries which were already in place.
To get the understanding of the requirements as per the client
specifications provided to automate.
To get acquainted with NetApp (NAS) environment to proceed for
automation.
To understand REP feature in detail.
To get to get the flow of the library developed indigenously.
To Design, Develop and Test the utility so developed.
To enhance / modify the utility / tool as per the requirements
Sep 2007 - Apr 2010 Software Engineer
Patni, Mumbai
Develop/update/redesign and append the existing utility written in perl to
provide additional functionality of backend de‑provisioning along with
removal of all user mapped data on EMC2 NAS box i.e. Celerra using a
structural approach and adding the CRs as per clientsʼ requirements.
To get familiar with EMCʼs Celerra(NAS box) framework.
To get updated with the storage domain knowledge required in the
project.
To enhance a utility provided by EMC to have functionality to provide
factory state reset to CELERRA required by NAS system in perl(script).
To Estimate, Design, Develop and Test the utility so developed.
To enhance the utility as per the requirements.
The aim of the project was to develop a RCM_clerra_tool to perform some
pre‑post‑upgrade checks automated through a bash/shell script.
This was a tool developed from scratch using Test Driven Development
approach along with on job training for Celerra Upgrades and
Down‑grades/Reverts and to perform system health and other checks for
consistency.
To Estimate, Design, Develop and Test the utility so required. Perform
Test planning as needed.
To get familiar with EMCʼs NAS framework and understanding of RCM
teamʼs requirements.
To get updated with the storage domain knowledge required in the
project.
To develop a tool (written in bash) to fetch information from the system as
and when required.
To interact with different RCM teams both ONSITE as well as OFFSHORE to
ensure proper understanding of the processes involved.
Public speaking, Microsoft office, Microsoft word, Microsoft excel, CRM.
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
May 2003 - May 2007 Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication
Mahakal Institute of Technology - RGPV, Ujjain
SKILLS
SAN, NAS, DAS, CAS, Object
store, Vmware, Hyper-V
AWS, Private cloud, CI/HCI,
HPC
python
perl, shell, powershell
NFS, SMB, NVMe, ISCSI and FC
Windows, RHEL, SUSE, Ubuntu,
ESXi, OnTap
IP-automata, Twister, VTAF,
autopilot, ansible
JIRA, Conflunce, Bugzilla,
BugDB, q-Test
Testrail, burtweb and HP
ALM/QC
GIT, SVN, VSS, Perforce
VMware, Hyper-V, KVM
RFP Preparation, Product
Demo, PoC, ROI
TRAININGS UNDERGONE
A course on Storage Fundamentals from EMC2 DVT team.
EMCʼs NAS domain training.
VMwareʼs ESXi on job training.
Advanced PERL and Automation training.
SAN, Clustering, Networking and storage concepts.
Undergoing SNIA and advanced storage concepts training.
CERTIFICATIONS
1. VMware Certified Professional 6 ‑ Data Center Virtualization
a. VCP6‑DCV Exam (2V0‑621)
b. vSphere 6 Foundations Exam (2V0‑‑620)
2. VMware Certified Professional (VCP‑510)
3. VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCPN‑610)
4. BrainBench Certified for Storage Area Networks (SAN) concepts.
5. BrainBench Certified for Advanced perl concepts.
Looking forwards from here:‑ ITIL,PMP, PRINCE2 etc.
PERSONAL DETAILS
Nationality Indian
Sex Male
Marital Status Married
Date of Birth May 31, 1985
Passport Number R1214529, valid till May 23, 2027
VISA USA Business US Visa(B1/B2), valid till Nov 04, 2028
CONTACT DETAILS
Mobile :‑ +91 9663943441
e‑Mail :‑ anuragamodi@[Link]
linkedIn :‑ [Link]