# Arun Mittal

> Virtualization | Coud | Automation | Developer Tools

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arunmittal

15 years of experience in design/development of automation frameworks and developer tools to increase engineering efficiency and productivity. 

15 years of experience in virtualization platform such as AWS, Kubernetes, KVM, OpenStack, and VMware.

15 years of experience in C#, Golang, Perl, Python, and shell scripting.

10 years of experience in tools  such as Jenkins, Jira,, Git, and FIO.

8 years of experience validating HA, Scaleout, distributed systems and working with etcd and zookeeper

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer 1 @ VMware
Jan 2020 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Member Of Technical Staff @ Datrium
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
1. Led the resiliency, reliability, availability, and quality assurance of Datrium Storage Platform
2. Automated 100s of tests and wrote libraries to test HA/Scaleability of distributed cluster, Zookeeper quorum service, Storage Pool redundancy. 
3. Designed framework and automated hardware qualification process, which reduced the time from 1 week to just 12 hours.
4. Led the test automation of single file restore from local and cloud VM snapshots.
5. Architected GUI automation framework using python selenium web driver and selenium server.

### Senior Software Engineer @ ZeroStack
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View
1. Developed and automated over 150 validation scenarios for the distributed HCI platform, covering complex areas such as fault injection, scale-out, VM migration (public/private cloud), and full system recovery.
2. Engineered end-to-end performance benchmarking workflows using Google Perfkit, FIO, and iPerf, generating critical data for competitive analysis used by Sales and Marketing.
3. Designed and deployed Jenkins infrastructure and pipelines to automate product builds, test execution, and regression testing for engineers, driving product validation and accelerating release planning.

### Software Development Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California, United States
1. Engineered an automated reliability suite of ~200 tests (60% of total validation) for a two-node HA storage platform, ensuring high availability and data durability.
2. Developed complex fault injection and validation automation covering hardware/software faults, power outage, component replacement, and firmware stability across SAS, Data, and Power subsystems.
3. Collaborated with internal Engineering and Support teams, as well as OEM partners (Sandisk, Seagate, Xyratex), to perform technical debugging, issue reproduction, and drive system stability.

### Staff Software Engineer @ BroadVision
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | Redwood City, California, United States
1. Automated the process of upgrading the production, which resulted in reducing time from 2 hours to 5 minutes.
2. Automated new customer onboarding process, which resulted in reducing time from 1 week to 2 hours.
3. Setup High Availability and Automated Disaster Recovery in EC2 for the product.
4. Setup and automated Auto Scaling in EC2 for the product.
5. Setup local repository server in Ubuntu and automated upgrade of all the production servers.

### Engineering Intern @ Pareto Networks (Acquired by Aerohive Networks)
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Designed and developed GUI testing Automation Framework
Setup infrastructure using nagios and cacti to monitor production Servers in EC2 and rackspace.

### Software Developer @ Philips Healthcare
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | San Jose, California, United States
Virtualized client and server of https://www.philips.ie/healthcare/product/HC882482/brightview-xct-spectct-system
Optimized virtual machine according to VMware recommendations.
Wrote and Executed test plan for comparing the performance of virtual machine with native machine.


## Education
### M.S. Degree in Computer Engineering
San José State University

### B. Tech in Computer Engineering
NCCE


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arun-mittal-490aa0a
- GitHub: https://github.com/armittal89

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Last updated: 2026-04-12