Amit Phansalkar

Background

About Amit Phansalkar

Experience with managing small to mid-sized teams with an emphasis on team culture of open communication and trust a strong sense of ownership focus on good development practices and right processes. Strives to create cohesive highly productive self-driven teams. Technical leadership mentoring people providing them with right opportunities for growth and visibility work with different stakeholders understanding and implementing business priorities readiness to learn new skills adapting new processes and ideas very good understanding of software development practices emphasis on product quality and usability. Significant experience with Agile/SAFe. Trained SAFe practitioner. Owned various product releases from incremental releases for existing products to emerging products. Proven track record of taking product/feature ownership from design to delivery and support. Extensive experience of working with geo-distributed teams understanding of cultural nuances and issues with remote communication. Experience as Product Owner (SAFe Agile): Working with Product Management to create Engineering Requirement Documents translating one-line top-level requirements into specific business use-cases and fine-grained requirements own feature development end-to-end. As Individual Contributor (Past): Kernel programmer with solid development experience in different flavors of Unix (Solaris/Linux) and good experience in clustered file-systems/storage domain. Strong C/C++ fundamentals CS fundamentals Kernel/System programming. Specialties: Cloud Storage Clustered Storage/File-systems De-Dup SSD Caching Unix Internals Operating Systems Kernel Programming Algorithmic Computer Science.