Shantanu Sardesai

Senior Manager | Software Engineering

Isilon Systems•  October 2017 - October 2017

• Built three development teams (Seattle, Shanghai, and St. Petersburg) as part of In Market Engineering for delivering critical fixes and features to the customers across Isilon product line with a goal to reduce total time to resolution and improving quality for the customer. • Led the data protection and data replication vision and execution by leading engineering teams over multiple releases by driving all aspects of product development and by collaborating with Product Mgmt., Program Mgmt., Release, Validation, Certification and In-Market-Engineering to come up with product roadmap and release plan to timely deliver the features for products. Improved customer experience by driving escalations to resolution and product roadmap discussions to come up with a plan to meet their needs. • Improved availability of data services by architecting and delivering Service Replication, Compliance mode Failover/Failback and other major data management features with high quality and in timely manner using Agile methodology.

Manager 2 | Software Engineering

Isilon Systems•  April 2014 - October 2017

• Led and managed development teams for data replication (SyncIQ) and data protection (Smart Lock) products, FS job execution (Job Engine) and critical event alerting (CELOG). • Successfully shipped multiple features over several product releases and maintenance releases using Agile methodology. • Recipient of Excellence@EMC Gold Award (July 2016). Entire team received Excellence@EMC Silver Award for innovation and execution. Management Excellence Champion (2014-15).

Sr. Development Manager | Sr. Technical Lead | Sr. SDE | SDE II

Microsoft•  June 1999 - April 2014

• Improved availability of Azure based device configuration management service – Windows Intune, by designing and implementing Service Health Monitoring and Alerting. Drove service horizontals implementation by collaborating with different feature teams. • Reduced OS deployment cost and deployment cycle for windows enterprise customers by incubating, architecting, implementing and delivering Microsoft’s solution to deploy OS to hundreds of desktops simultaneously. • Successfully shipped multiple features over several product releases and service packs for several functional areas (Content Distribution, Task Sequencing, OS Deployment, Software Updates feature pack, Software Distribution, Remote Control, etc.) of a distributed enterprise device management product- Configuration Manager, from conception to maturity. Drove Product Description, Requirements and Design Specifications and led design reviews and code reviews. Managed backlog and team schedules. • Managed and mentored a team of developers for 6+ years. Best WHI score in development team and 98% manager feedback agreement. Managed gold star award recipient employees.