# Arvind Chandra

> DevOps and Automation Engineer

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/arvindchandra

Tools engineer in Python, Java, perl and shell script.

Specialties: Python, Golang, C++, C, Java, Perl, HTML, SQL Server, Oracle, MS Access, DB2, UNIX, Linux and Solaris

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ Cohesity
Jan 2017 – Present
Wrote a tool which allows tests to run on any Cohesity testbed.
All the automation was written on Golang which is preferred automation language at
Cohesity
Monitored build runs in Jenkins and triaged them.
Mentored new team members and planned their activities.

### Principal Software Engineer @ EMC
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Run end to end integration tests of Maginatics filesystem with Networker
Run end to end integration tests of Maginatics filesystem with Avamar
Maintain scripts for cleanup of containers and instances in cloud
Maintain scripts for cleanup of VMs in the VMware Virtual Ccenter
Automate functional tests using REST API of Maginatics Appliance
Mentored team members for automation tasks

### Senior Engineer @ Maginatics, Inc
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Maintain scripts for VM cleanup in Virtual Center(VMware) and AWS(EC2)
Automate functional tests(done in python)

### MTS @ Exablox
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale
Run NASPT and fio benchmark tools(done in python)
Automate functional tests(done in python)
Manage lab infrastructure

### Tools and Automation Engineer, VC(Virtual Center) Development Tools Team @ VMware
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Palo alto, Ca
Support framework for pre checkin test(written in Python)
Support framework which deals with testbed deployment(written in Ruby)
Triage failures in continuous automated run of pre checkin tests
Work on tool to analyze failures by parsing logs(written in Python)

### MTS Tools and Infrastructure Engineering @ VMware
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Support vTAF 2.0 by bug fixing
Build integration of vTAP 1.0
Integrating Selenium tests into vTAP 1.0

### Automation Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2006 – Jan 2010
Develop automation framework in STAF for the team. Most of the programming is done in Java which uses the API's of Virtual Infrastructure. Help in facilitating the use of the framework by developing libraries.
Work on vTAF 2.0(done in Perl) by training users and bug fixes
Owned workbench integration with vTAF 2.0
Wrote tools to improve productivity like old VM deletion, log deletion, continuous test improvements

### Research Assistant @ CISE
Jan 2005 – Jan 2005
Designed and developed a testing automation tool written in C++ which generates test case coverage matrix for black box testing.

### Software Developer @ Rheumatology Dept, University Of Florida
Jan 2004 – Jan 2005
-Designed and implemented an Inventory Management System for Rheumatology lab which has 20 users using SQL server and VB6. 
-Designed and implemented Patient entry system for Rheumatology lab using PHP and SQL Server.

### Software Analyst @ Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai, India
Jan 1999 – Jan 2002
-Implemented the Inventory Tracking System(ITS) in the Target Corporation’s using Enterprise Application Integration(EAI).  The system is implemented in Java using XML and Websphere. 
-Scheduled, planned and trained new personnel into projects. This included functional and technical knowledge.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

### Master's degree
University of Florida


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/arvindchandra

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Last updated: 2026-04-12