Kunal Kushwaha

Current

Technical Leader at Proware Technologies Corp.

Past

Software Devlopment Engineer at Calsoft Pvt ltd

Education

University of Pune
University of Pune
Sainik School Kapurthala

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Kunal Kushwaha’s Summary

Software Development Engineer with good product development experience, primarily worked on implementation of RAID Subsystem ( Implementation of various RAID algorithms, features like cloning, online expansion of array, online rebuilding etc)

- Domain expertise include Block devices, NAS system, Storage Management and Data Migration.

- Experienced in design and development for building Version 1.0 of softwares.

- Worked on IM Protocols of IM majors YAHOO, MSN, ICQ and Jabber

- Worked in geographically distributed, culturally diverse teams.

- Handled management responsibilities like Hiring, Annual review and Appraisal, Resource Management, setting up of Processes, Assigning Timelines.

Kunal Kushwaha’s Specialties:

Implementing Storage Management Software, RAID Technology, IM Protocols, Network programming,GUI, SAN.

Kunal Kushwaha’s Experience

Technical Leader

Proware Technologies Corp.

(Public Company; TPO:3396; Computer Hardware industry)

October 2005 — Present (4 years 3 months)

- Responsible and Leading design and development of 2nd generation RAID Controller's firmware of Proware.

- Contributed as one of core team member in development of 1.0 Version of RAID Controller (proSUN) firmware.

( Proware's Flagship product EPICA series is powered by proSUN RAID Controller with serial no EP-XXX6-XXX)

Product detail:
http://www.proware.com.tw/products/scsi_3u_ep-3166ss.htm
http://www.proware.com.tw/products/sata_2u_ep-2126sa3.htm

- Identified and Worked on IO path further for performance optimization, was able to increase performance by 80-100% in Linear Writes and 20% in random writes.

- Leading the India development team for version 1.1 release onwards
(includes RAID core, GUI)
Software Devlopment Engineer

Calsoft Pvt ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

January 2004 — October 2005 (1 year 10 months)

- Worked on IM Security product ( now owned by Symantec) . I worked on IMLinkage an IM framework on which IM Manager works. I worked for complete product cycle of IMLinkage 3.5.

- Worked on Storage management for NetApp, implemented Data Migration over CIFS and NFS. I contributed in design, implementation and coordinating with QA for bug fixing.

- Worked on Virtual Drive for Windows, which was mapped in Windows explorer and user can do all operations as data is on local disk. The data was stored on Server over internet. Implement most of client side and added caching and auto sync features to optimize the IO operations.

Kunal Kushwaha’s Education

University of Pune

MCS , Computer Science , 2002 — 2004

Did various network based projects.
- Remote Administrative tool.( Virtual Network Computing + various tool to manage computer remotely over LAN)
- Network Explorer for Linux ( Neighborhood neighborhood for Linux)

Activities and Societies:

- Placement coordinator of Computer science department.
University of Pune

BCS , Computer Science , 1999 — 2002

Developed an GUI based Operating environment on top DOS (Similar to windows 3.1) with SDK to develop applications that can run within Operating environment.

- Has standard applications like notepad(text editor), Graphics editor, calender, screen saver etc.

Activities and Societies:

- Was General Secretary of college for year 2001-2002.
- Organized various college functions and events.
Sainik School Kapurthala

1992 — 1999