About

Hema Karusala is a highly skilled Software Development Engineer 2 at Dell EMC Corporation with over 6 years of experience in the storage industry and cloud services. She is a graduate of BITS Pilani, Goa Campus with a Bachelor of Technology degree in Computer Science. Hema is a proficient programmer and is skilled in Python, Ansible, Dockers, Network Attached Storage (NAS), and Performance benchmarking. Currently, Hema is working on an Embedded NAS solution for the PowerMax Product at Dell EMC. She is a designer, innovator, and developer providing support for deploying FILE libraries as dockers on platform/infrastructure primarily in virtualized environments. She works with geographically distributed teams and has designed and developed overall Non-disruptive Upgrade workflows for scenarios when all the platform components (dockers, NAS libraries, SUSE tools, baseOS, etc.) on all nodes in the cluster need to be upgraded without any interference in the IOs, which is critical for customers. In her previous role as a Software Engineer at Dell EMC, Hema designed and developed the deployment capabilities for the next-generation dockerized file system solution called SDNAS, which served multiple platforms across Dell EMC's storage portfolio like PowerStore, PowerFlex, and PowerMAX. She utilized Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Ansible on different operating systems like Ubuntu, SUSE, CentOS, CoreOS, etc. As an intern at Dell EMC, Hema worked on redesigning the VDM Sync feature of eNAS VMAX from Mapped pool to User-Defined pool to enhance the Fail-over performance. Hema's education background includes a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from BITS Pilani and a Secondary School Certificate in Mathematics from Sivani Public School, Ongole. She has a strong engineering background and has developed skills in software engineering, Ansible, infrastructure, designing, Python, and iOS. Overall, Hema is a highly skilled software engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the storage industry and cloud services. She has experience in designing and developing complex solutions in virtualized environments, utilizing various tools and technologies. Hema is a valuable asset to any team and is always eager to learn and grow in her field.