About

Vishwanath Kunder is a Technical Lead with over 13 years of experience in test and automation in the Storage domain. He has hands-on experience in testing and troubleshooting SAN block storage protocols like Fiber Channel (FC), FCoE, SCSI, and iSCSI. Vishwanath has tested storage stack layers like File System, LVM, DMMP, SCSI, and driver on Linux variants like RedHat, Oracle, and Suse operating systems. He has also automated test cases using Python and integrated it with existing automation frameworks. Vishwanath has a strong background in Storage protocols such as FC, FCoE, SCSI, NAS, and iSCSI. He is proficient in analysing tools like Finisar and Wireshark and has worked with various storage arrays like EMC Clariion, EMC Celerra, NetApp 7-mode, and C-mode DATA ONTAP. He is well-versed with switches like Brocade and Cisco FC and FCoE switches and cluster solutions like Veritas SFHA, SFRAC, and RedHat RHCS. Vishwanath has extensive experience in testing inbox and out-of-box adapter firmware and driver like Qlogic and Emulex. He has also worked with automation languages like Java, C++, and Python. He is well-versed in virtualization technologies like RedHat KVM, RHCE, Citrix Xen, OVM, and ESX. He has hands-on experience in performance testing for solutions like RedHat Ceph, Hadoop on Flash Storage, and testing on SSDs and Flash Storage. Vishwanath has worked with Sandisk® as a Principal Engineer R&D (Western Digital) and has previously worked with Stellus Technologies as a Senior Software Engineer. He has also worked with NetApp as a Software Engineer: SAN Linux Interop Engineering. He has a strong educational background with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Vishveshwaraiah Technological University and has completed his schooling from G.G. Chitnis. Vishwanath has led teams with project planning and delivering projects on time with given resources. He has worked with testing tools like JIRA, QC, and ALM. He has also carried out POC for new features. With relevant experience of 16.20 years, Vishwanath is a skilled Technical Lead with expertise in Storage protocols, testing, automation, and virtualization technologies.