Product ownership · Platform development · Systems engineering

Product delivery. Technical depth.

Across more than eight years at Dell Technologies, my roles spanned product ownership, enterprise platform development, new product introduction, solution support, and global technical enablement. Explore my experience from either angle.

01 / Product & delivery

From priorities to usable technical work.

A closer look at the product ownership, cross-functional coordination, new product introduction, and technical enablement work I performed at Dell.

  • Owned the roadmap, backlog, prioritization, and delivery for Microsoft Azure knowledge-transfer and enablement initiatives.
  • Coordinated engineering, cloud, support, and field stakeholders around priorities, dependencies, timing, and user needs.
  • Led new product introductions and major platform updates across Product Management, Engineering, Development, Pre-Sales, and Support.
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02 / Systems & platforms

Inside the systems and the details.

The enterprise platform work, scripting, infrastructure, networking, data projects, and hands-on systems that make up the technical side of my portfolio.

Explore technical work

Experience across products, platforms, and systems.

My work has crossed product ownership, platform development, technical enablement, infrastructure, and data. The consistent part is learning how the pieces fit together and turning that understanding into something people can use.

At Dell, I worked as a Product Owner, Senior Systems Development Engineer, Software Development Lead for new product introduction, and Solutions Architect Analyst.

Those roles put me between requirements and implementation, release work and user needs, and technical detail and cross-functional communication.

This site brings together that professional experience, my product and agile credentials, technical projects, Master's-program case studies, and the self-hosted infrastructure behind sherga.net.

Product / project lens

Delivery experience, by role.

Specific responsibilities and outcomes from my Dell experience.

Sep 2023 — Sep 2024

Product Owner

Dell Technologies

  • Owned the roadmap, backlog, prioritization, and delivery of Microsoft Azure knowledge-transfer and enablement initiatives supporting Dell's multicloud portfolio.
  • Translated evolving cloud capabilities into scoped eLearning modules, live demonstrations, presentations, readiness activities, and repeatable technical guidance.
  • Presented recurring live technical sessions to global audiences of more than 100 people and gathered feedback.
  • Created a domestic engineering team to transition knowledge-transfer work from Shanghai.
Nov 2018 — Oct 2023

Senior Systems Development Engineer

Dell Technologies

  • Developed and administered XACT, used by global pre-sales teams to configure and validate converged and hyperconverged solutions.
  • Partnered with product owners, engineers, project managers, support teams, and users to evaluate requirements, resolve production issues, assess feasibility, and prioritize enhancements.
  • Translated requirements into technical user flows, JavaScript rules, validation logic, licensing calculations, edge cases, and customer-ready bills of materials.
  • Supported releases and upgrades, validated outputs, demonstrated functionality, and trained users.
Feb 2017 — Nov 2018

Software Development Lead / NPI

Dell Technologies

  • Led new product introductions and major platform updates as the technical point across Product Management, Engineering, Software Development, Pre-Sales, and Support.
  • Coordinated quality assurance, integration and system testing, release readiness, compliance, dependencies, and issue resolution.
  • Established a DASH development process, tools, and forms to improve communication and handoffs.
  • Designed and delivered a two-week bootcamp in Bangalore.

Credentials.

Selected professional certifications and digital credentials.

Microsoft Learn verified

Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Verified Microsoft Azure Fundamentals credential earned through exam AZ-900, linked to the official Microsoft Learn record.

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Registered Scrum Master and Product Owner by Scrum Inc. badge
Scrum Inc. · January 2024

Registered Scrum Master (RSM) & Registered Product Owner (RPO)

Registered Scrum Master and Registered Product Owner credentials earned through Scrum Inc.

Atlassian logo
Atlassian · August 2026

Agile Project Management Professional Certificate

Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate earned in August 2026.

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Scaled Agile · 2019

SAFe 4 Agilist

SAFe 4 Agilist credential earned in 2019.

Selected technical work.

Practical systems built to solve real problems, with operational tradeoffs and failure modes treated as part of the design.

01 / PLATFORM

Virtualization and storage platform

A Proxmox environment hosting virtual machines and Linux containers, backed by ZFS storage, GPU-enabled workloads, centralized backups, and service-specific mount design.

Proxmox VEZFSLXCPBS
02 / NETWORK

Segmented and securely published network

A pfSense-centered network with VLAN isolation, internal DNS, WireGuard and Tailscale access, HAProxy routing, automated certificates, and Cloudflare-proxied services.

pfSenseVLANsHAProxyWireGuard
03 / AUTOMATION

Home automation and local intelligence

A dedicated Home Assistant system coordinating cameras, sensors, Zigbee, Z-Wave, Matter, MQTT, media, presence, and local voice and AI experiments.

Home AssistantFrigateMQTTLocal AI
04 / TOOLING

Operational scripting and workflow automation

PowerShell, shell, and Python tooling for remote inventory collection, backups, media processing, bulk data handling, system migration, and repeatable administration.

PowerShellPythonBashAutomation

Inside my homelab

A small production environment, built at home.

The lab is designed around explicit trust boundaries, isolated workloads, resilient storage, secure remote access, observability, and recoverability—not just a pile of applications.

3network security zones
2.5 GbEprimary network backbone
~48 TBtotal home storage, including ~16 TB mirrored ZFS
GPUaccelerated media and AI workloads
Cloudflare edge

Public DNS, TLS, proxying, email routing, and protected access terminate at the edge before traffic reaches the lab.

Technology stack.

The tools matter less than how they are combined, but this is the working set behind the projects shown here.

Infrastructure

Compute and storage

Virtualization, workload isolation, persistent storage, backups, and hardware acceleration.

Proxmox VELXCDockerZFSPBSNVIDIA
Networking

Routing and secure access

Segmentation, internal service discovery, encrypted access, certificate automation, and edge publishing.

pfSenseHAProxyCloudflareWireGuardTailscaleUnbound
Automation

Home and operations

Event-driven automation, cameras, messaging, local protocols, monitoring, and service orchestration.

Home AssistantFrigateMQTTZigbeeZ-WaveMatter
Engineering

Scripting and integration

Repeatable administration, data handling, APIs, deployment workflows, and glue code.

PowerShellPythonBashJavaScriptGitHub ActionsREST APIs
Data

Analysis and applications

Exploration, statistical modeling, visualization, reporting, and interactive analytical applications.

Rggplot2ShinySQLRegressionEDA
Operations

Security and reliability

Least exposure, segmented trust, monitoring, backup validation, and troubleshooting across layers.

TLSVLANsSnapshotsSyslogHealth checksRecovery

Graduate data case studies.

Original work from my Master's program, covering exploratory analysis, statistical modeling, and interactive applications.

CASE STUDY 01

Beer and Breweries

Exploratory data analysis, statistical comparisons, geographic trends, data wrangling, visualization, and an interactive R Shiny application built from U.S. beer and brewery datasets.

Rggplot2StatisticsShiny
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CASE STUDY 02

Employee Attrition and Income Modeling

Employee-data analysis focused on attrition drivers, job-role trends, Naïve Bayes classification, and regression modeling for monthly income.

RNaïve BayesRegressionEDA
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Lab access.

A launch point for selected self-hosted services. Each application retains its own authentication and access controls; administrative interfaces remain private.

Available

Home Assistant

Automation, device control, dashboards, cameras, energy, and household integrations.

Open service
Available

File Browser

Authenticated access to shared files and selected homelab storage.

Open service
Private

Proxmox

Virtualization management is intentionally restricted to trusted local and VPN connections.

Private

Network administration

Firewall, switching, storage, and infrastructure management remain off the public edge.

Get in touch

Let's talk about what you're building.

For product ownership, project and technical delivery, systems or platform engineering opportunities, or technical collaboration, email is the best place to reach me.

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