Abhinav is a seasoned
software technologist and manager with 15 years of professional experience
working in USA and India. In May 2008 he founded Sound Paradigm Software
Engineering Services Pvt. Ltd. to provide training and consulting services in
the areas of Storage, Virtualization and Information Lifecycle Management Technologies,
Multishore Team Incubation as well as Software Engineering Team and People
Management.
Prior to this, Abhinav was
Director and Head of Storage Practice at Symphony Services in Pune, India. He
incubated and led offshore teams for several software product companies at
Symphony. He conceptualized, designed and delivered many sessions of Storage
Technology Boot Camp - a training program aimed at bootstrapping engineers to
work on products spanning most areas of the Information Lifecycle Ecosystem and
storage technology. As head of Symphony's Storage Practice, he was actively
involved in presales activities for storage technology prospects as subject
matter expert.
Between 1998 and 2003
Abhinav was Principal Engineer in the Storage Products Division of HP (acquired
from Compaq which acquired it from Digital Equipment) at Colorado Springs in
USA. At HP he worked on developing firmware/software for storage arrays, then
briefly played the role of technical lead for an OEM relationship between
Compaq and IBM and later on worked to architect, design and showcase high end,
high performance Storage Area Networks involving hundreds of end ports and
hundreds of terabytes of data.
Abhinav worked at Tata
Elxsi (India) Limited in Bangalore between 1994 and 1997 as a software and
firmware engineer on their RAID product. During 1996-97 he was deputed by Tata
Elxsi for a long term onsite assignment at the IBM Serial Disk Controller
Firmware Division, San Jose, USA.
Abhinav is a recognized
speaker in the area of Storage, Virtualization and Information Lifecycle
Management related technologies and has presented at forums like Storage
Networking Users Group (SNUG), Crescendo (a technical event organized by
Symphony for industry professionals and students), Information Systems
Controllers and Auditors Association (ISACA), Computer Society of India (CSI)
as well as the technical festivals of various engineering colleges.
Abhinav completed his M.
Sc. (Computer Science) at the top of his class from the Department of Computer Science,
University of Pune. He also worked as a full time member of the teaching
faculty there in the academic year 1993-94. HeĀ is also a SNIA Certified
Storage Professional (SCSP).
Abhinav is a self-taught
flautist and plays the Bansuri (Indian bamboo flute) in khayal style to nurture
his interest in Indian Classical Music.
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