About

Heerak Surti is a highly skilled Principal Systems Development Engineer at Dell EMC, with nearly 20 years of experience in data center storage and Quality Assurance. He is an expert in automation, testing, troubleshooting, and debugging, and has a deep understanding of complex data storage problems. He is committed to delivering outstanding solutions that resolve corporate challenges and utilizes his extensive experience to achieve this. Heerak's specialties include leadership qualities, excellent execution rigger, and technical skills in scripting languages such as Python, storage protocols like Fiber Channel, InfiniBand, iSCSI, SCSI, SAS, technology such as flash arrays, SSD, performance analysis, NVMe, and operating systems like Linux, Windows, VMWare, and Hyper-V. He is also proficient in using tools like Medusa, FIO, FC analyzers, and Jammers, and software practices such as test plan, release and resource planning, and product life cycle. Heerak has worked in various roles with several companies, including Sandisk, where he was a Principal Engineer in Test Engineering. Here, he worked on ION Accelerator, a PCIe-based all-flash array system that delivers high IO performance using PCIe-based storage SSDs. He was responsible for leading a team for validation of ION accelerator for multiple releases and is a subject matter expert on flash arrays and flash systems, working on performance and Python-based automation. He has also worked with Brocade Communications Systems Inc, where he was a Staff Software Test Engineer, and worked on Brocade intelligent application switches that perform tasks like virtualization of IO and storage virtualization. Heerak holds a BE degree in Electronics and Communication from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University, and he completed his schooling at Carmel High School. He has a relevant experience of 19.95 years and is proficient in test, QA, Python, Backend, and SDET.