# Shiv Agarwal

> Founding Engineer at Hammerspace

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

Engineering Leader with over 24 years of experience in full life-cycle development and qualification of Storage Systems and Enterprise Servers

- Hands-on experience with QA practices including test automation, test strategy, and test planning with excellent debugging and troubleshooting skills

- Strong experience in areas of Enterprise, HPC, and Consumer Storage Systems, I/O controllers, device drivers and various File Systems qualification

- Successful in building, engaging, and managing geographically dispersed cross-functional teams

- Entrepreneurial in nature, passionate about delivering bottom line results, and innovative problem solver

Specialties: 
- Enterprise / HPC / Consumer Storage Systems,  NAS / SAN, I/O subsystem, File Systems, Unix / Linux
- Automation,  data corruption, I/O performance, measurement and analysis

## Work Experience
### Director Of QA @ Hammerspace
Jan 2019 – Present | Los Altos, CA

### Founding Engineer @ Hammerspace
Jan 2018 – Present | Los Altos, California, United States
Implementing Continuous Integration
Defining test methodology, processes and documentation
Hiring and expanding the QA personnel

### Sr Manager @ Primary Data Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Los Altos, CA
•	Managing Geographically Dispersed multiple test and automation teams to qualify end-to-end NVME Storage, Scale-Out NAS Storage solution
•	Architect VM infrastructure to support system test beds for whole team
•	Member of POC (Proof of Concept) team to help SE in executing POC at customer sites, also responsible for running POC test plan in house
•	Responsible for performance testing using various tools (vdbench, frametest, dbench, mdtest, ior)
•	Architect numerous system test cases like Chaos Monkey, Scalability tests
•	Improved automated test coverage multi-fold

### SQA Manager @ Panasas
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA
Senior Level QA Leader reporting directly to the VP of Engineering with the following responsibilities:
- Qualifying end-to-end HPC NAS Storage H/W and S/W releases
- Building, coaching and mentoring of the QA team(s)
- Responsible for test automation, testing tools

### SQA Manager @ Drobo, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Jose, CA
-  Lead / Hands-on Manager, led team of software QA engineers for qualifying H/W and S/W releases for DAS, NAS, and SAN Storage Enclosures
- Led team in qualifying various HDDs / SSDs from different vendors
- Fully responsible for automation of test tools and their enhancements

### Sr Automation Engineer @ Drobo, Inc.
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA
- Implemented test automation infrastructure in Perl
- Created and developed many innovative tools necessary for test execution, especially related to data corruption
- Led teams for various certifications efforts for Storage enclosures (DAS, NAS, and SAN based) such as VMware certification, WHQL, Apple Thunderbolt, USB 3.0
- Conducted performance testing using various open source tools on DAS, NAS, and SAN Storage

### Senior Software Engineer @ Oracle Corporation
Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 | Santa Clara, CA
- Responsible for Sun SPARC Enterprise server I/O subsystem test activities, including bring-up, hotplug, dynamic reconfiguration, and I/O performance measurement and analysis

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sun Microsystems
Jan 2000 – Jan 2010 | Santa Clara, CA
- Lead Engineer responsible for qualification of UltraSparc Servers
- Tech Lead for qualifying I/O cards (HBA and Networking) on upcoming Server systems
- Responsible for designing and developing test tools for I/O functionality on Server systems
- Responsible for performance measurement and analysis for HBA and network I/O controllers
- Member of multiple tiger teams to tackle bring-up issues related to upcoming Enterprise Servers
- Developed test suites for File System testing using C
- Implemented test suites for DR functionality using Perl and C++ on multiple UltraSparc Servers
- Led multiple teams in qualifying Server features like Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR) interface, File Systems (ufs / nfs / zfs), H/W faults and device drivers

### Software Specialist @ Digital Equipment Corporation
Jan 1997 – Jan 2000
- Implemented enhancements for Optical File System driver on Digital Unix for optical devices / libraries
- Responsible for enhancements and maintenance of tape device driver (CAM driver) and storage management software (MRU) on DEC Unix, VMS, and Windows environments


## Education
### MSc. in Statistics
Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shiv-agarwal-477b08

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Last updated: 2026-04-11