About

Peeyush Srivastava is a highly experienced engineering leader with over 18 years of experience in the storage and data protection domains. Currently, he is serving as the Sr. Manager Engineering at Forcepoint, where he is leading the Enterprise Backup solutions team. Peeyush has a strong record of building highly motivated teams from scratch and grooming employees to take on bigger roles and more responsibilities. Peeyush has expertise in working with cross-geo teams, cross-functional teams, partner companies, and vendors. He has established strong processes and frameworks for current product engineering releases. Peeyush has experience in building highly motivated teams with freshers and new talent engineers on board and grooming them for the next level. Peeyush has an in-depth understanding of engineering leadership, enterprise software, storage domain, data protection (on-prem, cloud), AWS, Azure, GCP, Lean, Agile, Unix Kernel Programming, Volume Manager (VxVM), File System (VxFS), DMP, Replication, Product development, SDLC, Kernel Engg. with experience on HPUX, Linux, Solaris, AIX, RHEL, SLES, Storage NAS, File-Store, C, Kernel, REST API, JSON, SQL/No-SQL database, Docker-Containers. Peeyush has worked on all aspects of software development in the data protection, kernel, and storage domains. He has managed development, QA, sustenance and escalation teams and has rich experience in handling cross-platform development (AIX, Solaris, Linux, HPUX). Peeyush has excellent communication skills, high EQ to resolve conflicts, good listening skills, and has practiced Agile methodology (Scrum/ Kanban). He has managed cross-geographical projects (US/UK/China) and has successfully hired more than 15+ engineers in the team (Laterals/Freshers). Peeyush has a proven track record in handling multiple OS vendors and Storage vendors and driving process improvements and requirements viz. SUSE, RedHat, Oracle, Dell EMC, PureStorage, HPE, Hitachi, Huawei, Nutanix. He has 9+ years of experience in driving joint partner development projects and handling OEM relationships (HPEOEM). Peeyush has good exposure to Cloud, Docker-Containers, and Filers. Peeyush has used Waterfall and Agile models of developments and has good exposure to JIRA, Stash, GIT, CVS