About

Praful Dambal is a highly experienced Solutions Architect at Intel with over 18 years of experience in designing and developing embedded software in domains spanning Ether Networks, Storage Networks, RAID, and Solid State Drives. He has a special emphasis on developing and enhancing storage and networking products. Praful has a proven track record in engineering management, design/development, performance optimization, and benchmarking of SSD Firmware functions spanning NAND media management and media access layers. He is a senior software engineer with relevant experience of 21.36 years in the industry. Praful has held several key positions in his career, including Sr Engineering Manager at Seagate and Software Engineering Manager at NetApp. At Seagate, he was responsible for engineering management of standards-based storage management product suite for NetApp storage arrays. He achieved performance and scale improvements supporting large data center configuration in NetApp SMI-S providers and supported OEM solutions using NetApp storage arrays built around SMI-S. At NetApp, he was responsible for engineering management of standards-based storage management product suite for NetApp storage arrays. He achieved performance and scale improvements supporting large data center configuration in NetApp SMI-S providers and supported OEM solutions using NetApp storage arrays built around SMI-S. Praful holds a Master of Technology (MTech) degree in Computer Engineering from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Karnatak University. Praful's technical expertise includes software engineering, embedded systems, storage networks, RAID, and solid-state drives. He is a skilled professional with a passion for developing and enhancing storage and networking products.