# Priya Shastri > Software Engineering Leader in Cloud infrastructure - DevOps | Instructor | ex-Oracle | ex-VMware | Toastmaster - DTM Location: Saratoga, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/priyashastri I am highly energetic and passionate about technology in the enterprise software area having more than 19+ years experience as a Software Development and Test Engineer in the Cloud Platform Engineering in the bay area transitioning into Product. Recently obtained the FinOps certification, AWS Fundamentals of AI, AWS DevOps Professional and AWS Solution Architect Associate certification that enables me to work in the Cloud infrastructure space. Experienced Lead Software Engineering Developer/Tester with good experience in developing C and Python language based applications as Senior Software Engineer/Technical Lead at Couchbase, Member of Technical Staff 4 at VMware, Principal Software Engineer at Intel Corporation and Oracle Corporation Inc. I am self-driven and goal oriented with experience in leading off shore teams. I give back to the community in terms of volunteer hours and teaching kids. I am a go-getter and an extremely active person. I try to squeeze in time for couple half marathons every year. I was recently awarded the Distinguished Toastmaster award from Toastmasters International, communication is important for my job. Avid blogger at https://priyashastri.medium.com ## Work Experience ### Staff/Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Efficiency and Optimization @ GEICO Jan 2024 – Present | California, United States My main role is to help the company reduce cloud cost. ### Staff Software Engineer - Enterprise Engineering @ GEICO Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | United States In this role I am responsible for the design and development of REST API for data migration. ### Owner @ ConnectedCloudServices Jan 2024 – Present | Saratoga, CA We are providing cloud solutions to small business customers. Connect to your cloud! In addition, we provide learning modules and resources to re-skill in technology. It is with great excitement that I share my self-paced teaching courses on Udemy(link below) : 1.Intro to Large Language models (LLMs) - https://www.udemy.com/course/intro-to-large-language-models... 2.Prompt Engineering -https://www.udemy.com/course/prompt-engineering-ps 3.Basics of AI -https://www.udemy.com/course/basics-of-ai 4. Gen AI Fundamentals: https://www.udemy.com/course/gen-ai-fundamentals/ 5. Machine Learning Fundamentals 6. Build successful mentorship relationships Please share and leave a rating! hashtaghashtag#AI ### Sr. Software Engineer - Tools/Automation- Technical Lead @ Couchbase Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Santa Clara County, California, United States Couchbase is a SaaS Database provider that is built on AWS. It is a NoSQL database storing documents in key value pairs. - Platform Engineering - Worked on developing automated tests for User interface testing using Cypress, Selenium. Provided 10% improvement ~150 out of 1000 test cases into automated test suites on AWS cloud. Added new features for supporting multi cloud environments. Test time reduced by 30%. Used github for code handling and developed best practices for the same. - Dashboard of the status of the tests provided to management. Used Jenkins to set up automated runs. - Used JIRA for managing work assignments to team members on a weekly basis. - Started Couch_Toastmasters group in the company. Established CouchbaseDocJabbers Toastmasters club in the company in Dec 2022. - Modernized the test cases using BDD and Gherkin(to make it UI agnostic). Focused on User scenario based testing. ### Learning DevOps from Software testing @ Unknown Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 Obtaining certifications from Linux Foundation Certified Kubernetes Application Developer Jul 2021 and Certified Kubernetes Administrator Sep 2021. Also obtained the New Manager bootcamp certificate from UCBerkeley Exec Education in Dec 2021. ### Member of Technical Staff 4 @ VMware Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto VMWARE is a multicloud company that is built on Hypervisor and provides hardware abstraction. -Worked on testing addition of Petabyte SSD disks to the vsphere UI 7.0 using Python code with Django framework. - Developed ~50 python test cases for adding a large capacity drive feature for the disks and Disk and diskgroup decommission tests in the vSAN storage team in python using pytest.Worked on setting up Jenkins CI/CD pipeline for existing tools like clusterfull, fault domain, unicast commands in Virtual Storage team (vSAN). - Managing Cluster deployment using Kubernetes kubeadm. Worked on developing tools using bash scripts. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Self-employed Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Saratoga ca ### Senior Validation Engineer @ Intel Corporation Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Clara Intel is the largest chip manufacturer for x86 hardware. - As part of the Platform Engineering Group (PEG) I was the key person to set up development and test systems for the members of the team to use. - Was instrumental in adding test support for DX9 APIs in the Lakefield processor. The test code was written in C and comparison was done between the graphic image rendered using GPU and the new processor. Debug information was being added using shader dumps and manual comparison of golden and rendered images. Being the central point of contact for debugging the sighting. ### Principal Software Engineer @ Oracle Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Santa Clara CA My resposibilities include end to end testing, and development of tools for enterprise systems. I am tasked with leading a team of testers from India to successfully accomplish this. Oracle is a Database provider and an emerging leader in the Cloud Applications space. - As part of Oracle CLoud Infrastructure (OCI ) team, I worked as the lead test engineer on SPARC SuperCluster (SSC) - Exadata with M7 and MysticRiver chip. - The tools included setup and management on the SSC right out of the box. Developing SSC2.0 virtualization tools as well like osx-backup, osc-domcrete, osc-interdom, osc-realloc and osc- setcoremem. These tools help in resizing the domain on SSC by adding/removing cores and memory. - Dynamically configure IO domains. Involved in sustaining a tool for exadata called exachk and oswatcher. -Involved in research and development of a new test to test the loopback functionality in Mystic River (MR)chip. -Working with M7 platform teams to learn the working of the current driver and determine if that can be used to check the hypervisor APIs to set/reset registers in the MR chip. - Developed Infiniband test to test Mellanox fabric which provided 40GB data transfer rates. -Developed a new feature called disk scrubbing as part of diskmediatest code.This feature was deployed with the VTS release in March 2014. Was the single point of contact for the "FRUID Made Easy" guide to provide a common solution to learn the FRUID process across Oracle platform teams. Worked on developing tests for SSD and memory devices. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Oracle Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Santa Clara, California, United States My responsibilities include using the open source open fabrics user verbs library in Solaris and create test cases to measure performance of infiniband fabric. My responsibilities include sustaining and supporting the in house code base for editing information stored in Serial Electronic Erasable Programmable Memory (SEEPROM) on replaceable hardware components a.k.a. as Field Replaceable Units (FRUs). - Senior developer for a software test to test infiniband products that are integrated into Exadata type machines. Designed and developed infiniband test (ibtest) as part of OracleVTS.Helped in deployment of diskmediatest feature, involves interaction with Disk Technology Team. -Senior technical developer on the libfru porting project from Solaris to ILOM3.0:The common stack of tools for FRUID S/W development included the low level file based utilities and the top layer of tools that help the platform teams to manipulate the data in the SEEPROM. ### Member of technical staff 4 @ Sun Microsystems Inc Jan 2005 – Jan 2010 | Santa Clara CA My responsibilities include sustaining and supporting the in house code base for editing information stored in Serial Electronic Erasable Programmable Memory (SEEPROM) on replaceable hardware components a.k.a. as Field Replaceable Units (FRUs). ### Member of Technical Staff 3 @ Sun Microsystems Inc Jan 2004 – Jan 2005 ## Education ### Certificate Program in Leadership and Management UC Berkeley Extension ### M.S. in Computer Science and Applications Virginia Tech ### B.E. in Computer Engineering University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/priyashastri --- Source: https://flows.cv/priyashastri JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/priyashastri/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01