About

Avinash Pani is a competent professional with approximately 7 years of industry experience in storage, virtualization, networking, automations, and framework development. He is currently working as a Staff Software Engineer at Citrix, where he has been responsible for testing the features of Netscaler SDX (Application Delivery Controller) on different platforms. He has worked on AAA (Security Feature), Netscaler HA, Netscaler SDX SDK, NITRO modules in Python/Perl, and Netscaler Management and Analytics System. In his previous roles, Avinash has worked as a System Engineer at Hewlett Packard and as a Software Developer at Blue Star Infotech. At Hewlett Packard, he was responsible for testing Operating System Kernel Patches for Load, Stress, Memory Leakage, and Panic Boot. He has also worked on Disaster Recovery Serviceguard, a high availability clustering product of HP, and has developed test frameworks using Perl. Avinash is well-versed with SDLC, Bug Life Cycle, and agile methodologies. He has experience in developing function modules and libraries for different storage and virtualization products to be incorporated in test automation frameworks. He has hands-on experience in Virtualization (ESXi, KVM, Hyper-V) setups, Clustering Setups (HP Serviceguard), and Storage (3PAR, EVA, XP-Hitachi Array, Dothill). Avinash holds a Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Biju Patnaik University of Technology. He has also completed his schooling from Kendriya Vidyalaya. His tech stack includes Software Engineering, Senior Software Engineering, test, AWS, Python, SDET, and SVM. With 10.70 years of relevant experience, Avinash is a skilled professional who has made significant contributions in the field of storage, virtualization, and networking.