About

Santosh Desai is a skilled software developer with over 5 years of relevant experience. Currently, he works as a Software Developer 2 at Microsoft. He is a post-graduate from BITS Pilani and holds a Master of Engineering degree in Computer Science. Santosh has worked with some of the top companies in the industry, including Oracle, NetApp, and ZS. At Oracle, he was a Member of Technical Staff - 2 and was a core member of the Kubernetes-csi team. He worked on projects related to volume snapshot, volume expansion, and distributed file system availability. Santosh also designed, developed, and deployed metrics monitoring and analysis tools and a prediction model to alert potential outages. He refactored the entire E2E test suite to maximize test coverage. Apart from technical responsibilities, he mentored and guided interns and new joiners and led a team of four people for the monitoring tool project. At NetApp, Santosh was also a Member of Technical Staff - 2 and worked on the Cloud Volume Services (CVS) and Flexgroup Sis Clone Virtualization projects. He was in charge of performance analytics for ONTAP 9.8 in the Flexgroup Virtualization project. He played a key role in API migration from ZAPI to REST and optimized cross-aggregate volume cloning with exhaustive unit testing. Santosh automated the entire CI/CD of the Flexgroup Virtualization project and helped in transitioning the CVS project. He also organized weekly meets of the NBC book club and coordinated quarterly fun activities for engineers. Santosh is proficient in various technologies, including Kubernetes, CI/CD, Blockchain, Data Scientist, Search, Python, and Java. He has a strong background in software engineering and testing. He is a quick learner and adapts well to new technologies. Santosh is a team player and has excellent communication skills. He is passionate about his work and strives to deliver quality results.