About

Kiran Mangalore is a highly experienced Senior Engineer at Seagate Technology with over 9 years of experience in Storage Device drivers and firmware testing. He has worked extensively on firmware and driver testing of storage controllers such as SAS and NVMe, as well as hardware RAID and features testing. With his DAS hardware exposure, he has set up racks and servers, particularly those of HP, Dell, and Intel servers, and has experience troubleshooting and setting up different Windows and Linux OS’s on various servers and client systems. Kiran Mangalore is proficient in SAS and NVMe protocols, as well as solid state disk firmware and driver testing. He has a deep understanding of features and commands in Linux OS flavors such as RHEL and UBUNTU. He is also highly skilled in test planning, review, estimation, and reporting, and has experience running different IO stress and compliance tests, such as Iometer, Medusa, SD stress, and FIO. Kiran has worked as an Engineer II at Seagate, where he designed new test cases according to the feature and prepared test plans for firmware release. He has conducted exhaustive testing on various functions of Flash technology, including wear leveling, op-management, program/erase, and exhaustive SAS protocol testing. He has also worked as a Test Engineer at HCL, where he validated NVMe Solid State Drive Drivers and Windows and Linux drivers for NVMe controllers. Kiran Mangalore holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Information Technology from Kuvempu University, as well as a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Electronics from Karnatak University. He also attended SDM Pre-University College. He has relevant experience of 10.70 years and has a strong tech stack in test and SDET. Kiran is a highly skilled professional with extensive experience in storage device drivers and firmware testing, and is a valuable asset to any organization seeking his expertise.