Growth Path: Dec’20 – Mar’22: Driver validation Engineer / Tech Lead Apr’22-Till Date: Driver Engineering Manager Role: Working as a Driver Engg manager at Network Group, Intel, and managing a team of 10 members Responsibilities include, managing all stakeholders like development, program management, and Sales team Also work with cross-functional team for design, installation, monitoring, and uptime of their respective products with other business units like Cloud group, Enterprise Data Center, Network & Edge group. Worked directly with a customer like -Rakuten on the resolving NIC issue & proper ORAN deployment from Intel Working on automation landscape strategy for maximum reuse between SoC & NIC products Working on 200G ethernet product for a new test plan for Linux base validation delivery. Built a new team at the Bangalore Intel site for Ethernet Product Group in 2021-22. o Hiring process o New Hire Ramp-up o Mentoring and continuous support for upskilling team members o Educate the OKR process a team member Contributed to solution-aware validation strategy as part of Timing protocol like – PTP & SyncE for Telco vRAN customer Developed test plans and approved test cases, scheduling projects for releases in coordination with project managers Providing technical guidance & debugging/ troubleshooting the network stack; identifying & analyzing the defects, questionable functions, errors, program functionality, outputs, online screens, and content Worked on technical PoC for PTP/SyncE and build test topology and test scenarios for 100G Intel NIC worked for the synce4l app to upstream for the open-source community Worked as a contributor for multiple WG (Working Group) for Process improvement e.g. – Bug rejection rate, solution validation, Linux upstream validation

o Multiple recognition for passion for Customers, integrity, and fearless innovation at Intel. o Q4\'22 DRA for supporting the Rakuten Symphony ORAN enablement for RMI o Q1’22 DTA Award - First Columbiaville product to enable high-precision timing synchronization across the network, which is aligned to significant growth & market opportunities in 5G RAN and edge o Q3’21 Star Award - Quality Data Driven proposal for Columbia Park automation robustness and coverage o Bravo Award in Jun’FY20 for driving IPS test gaps in COMMS and ensuring scenarios were covered & regressed o Bronze Award for Good Customer Experience for 14G Intel Server with COMMs adapters in Oct’17 in DellEMC o Bronze Award for driving Test Case to revamp, QMetry migration & implementation configuration sheet approach to COMMs Team in DellEMC in 2015 o Bronze Award for Automation of SNMP Get for storage and finding critical defects in CEM in Dell India R&D in 2012 o OTS (On the Spot) Award for identifying the Highest number of quality & complex defects (including design flaws) in CEM1.0 for Storage in Dell India R&D o Award for the recognition of innovative work during HP Idea Fest’08 for representing the idea of Virtualization of CIM object using proxy CIMOM in HP STSD Piloted the Idea filed in Dell Patent Tool using Centralized Management Server to retrieve TTY log the for DAS controller from multiple hosts at a time in OOB through agent-free monitoring in 2012