Viswa Vutharkar is a technical lead at Hewlett-Packard with over 8 years of experience. He has received strong recommendations from 9 previous colleagues and managers who praise his technical skills, commitment to quality, and ability to tackle difficult challenges. They describe him as a strong technical contributor, dedicated to understanding problems, and well-rounded engineer who would make an excellent addition to any team.

1. Viswa Vutharkar
Technical Lead at Hewlett-Packard (HP)
vutharkar@gmail.com
9 people have recommended Viswa
quot;Viswa is a strong engineering contributor on the File Archiving component of HP's Integrated
Archiving product. Viswa demonstrated strong technical skills in design and implementation, in
responsiveness to deadlines and addressing issues, and with working with internal and external
partners. Reviewing his profile will give you some idea of his technical breadth. As a senior
manager, the traits that impressed me most were his commitment to quality and high integrity in
meeting goals. I highly recommend Viswa to any team that is looking for a strong technical
contributor.quot;
— Karen Burley, Engineering Section Manager, Information Lifecycle Management, HP
Software, managed Viswa indirectly at Hewlett-Packard
quot;I worked with Viswa while a lead in the Information Lifecycle Management group at
Hewlett-Packard for and prior to that on the storage management appliance plugin for
Hewlett-Packards sever resource management product. Throughout this time I’ve always found
Viswa to be very dedicated to learning and understanding the problems that he is working on. While
working with him I’ve seen him tackle a number of difficult technical challenges, he has always
show great resourcefulness in tackling the problem. He is very flexible and able to work in a
dynamic work environment where changes occur often. His tenacity to reach the right answers has
inspired me to look deeper at problems at times to ensure that what we were doing on the project
was the right decision. I think he is a very strong engineer and would make an excellent addition to
any team.quot;
— Terry Robison, Software Development Lead, Hewlett-Packard, managed Viswa indirectly at HP
quot;I have worked with Viswa for the past 8 years, both in the ILM group and also on our previous
project in SAN management. Over the years, I have found Viswa to be extremely conscientious,
thorough, and easy to work with. He is very good at design work and is a complete developer,
meaning he writes his code with testability in mind and makes sure his code is solid before handing
it off. You can always count on Viswa to deliver on time and to follow up on issues should they
arise. In recent years Viswa has expanded his leadership roles by interfacing with a remote team
on an API into our ILM code. He kept the team updated on his progress with the remote team and
was able for foresee issues on both our side and theirs prior to them becoming critical. He is a very
well-rounded engineer and I would recommend him highly.quot;
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2. — Julie Britt, Software Design Engineer - ILM, Hewlett-Packard, worked directly with Viswa at
Hewlett-Packard
quot;Viswa is an extremely knowledgeable software design engineer who was always willing to help
when I needed help coming up to speed on new technologies. His willingness to take on difficult
tasks and execute to plan made him very easy to work with.quot;
— John Gourlay, Software Engineer, Hewlett-Packard, worked directly with Viswa at
Hewlett-Packard
quot;I had the privilege of working with viswa on the D2D project. He was part of the Command and
Control Team. I was part of the Data Path Team. During the Design Stages of the Project we have
had numerous discussions on how the Command and Control Portion of the Product needs to
interact with the Data Path Portion of the Product. My observation was viswa was a very talented
engineer, who can pretty much conceptually visualize the complete state machine of an application
end-to-end. He was very good at coming up with the various use case scenarios. He was very
detail oriented and can translate the entire application flow into well defined sequence diagrams. He
was also a very good coder who can produce good code in java and C# with the least amount of
defects. I certainly think he would be asset to any organisation he joins.quot;
— Subramaniyam Pooni, Senior Software Engineer [Lead Engineer], Information Life Cycle
Management, Storage Software Labs, Hewlett-Packard, worked with Viswa at Hewlett-Packard
quot;I have worked with Viswa for over 4 years. During this time Viswa has shown extensive leadership
skill and is very business minded and customer focused. Viswa's technical skills are rooted solidly
in object-oriented analysis and design. Quick to learn and a very good person to get objective help
and direction; a true team player. Viswa has mastered Java and J2EE (JBoss) concepts and
patterns, including clustering, EJB, JMS, and multitiered architecture. Viswa has helped lead the
way in lean development and helped our team successfully adopt SCRUM and iterative design.
Viswa also has strong tools knowledge in the areas of source control (SVN). Viswa would be a
great addition to any software development company!quot;
— Shawn White, Software Engineer, HP Information Management Group, worked directly with
Viswa at Hewlett-Packard
quot;I have been working with Viswa for about 4 years. He is a go-getter, who is not afraid of exploring
new technical territories. He is also a fast learner as well, so I can count on him to pick up things
quickly and own them. On the soft side, he is also a fun person to work with and a good team
player.quot;
— Liem Nguyen, Senior Software Engineer / Technical Lead, Hewlett-Packard, worked directly
with Viswa at Hewlett-Packard
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3. quot;Viswa and I have worked on a number of different projects over the course of several years. Viswa
has a very good grasp of object-oriented software design and has demonstrated ability not only to
take ownership of sizeable components, but also to deliver on his commitments. This often meant
gathering requirements and resolving issues, such as conflicting resources & time-lines,
disambiguating requirements, etc., often by driving coordination among several project teams.
Viswa volunteered for the role of the SCRUM-master for several of our sprint iterations and served
in that role very effectively. Additionally, Viswa also has good detailed-design and coding skills and
is very familiar with test-driven development. He is a good listener and is open to accept ideas of
others. He is a valuable source of very constructive feedback. Viswa has definitely always been a
very strong contributor and very enjoyable person to work with.quot;
— Thomas Vachuska, Software Architect, HP Information Management Group, managed Viswa
indirectly at Hewlett-Packard
quot;I've worked with Viswa for about 4 years as a colleague and I have very much enjoyed working
with him. He is very adept at paying attention to details that I normally would not have seen and
also quick to ask questions that are pertinent to his tasks and the project, both in the short-term as
well as the long-term. As a critical thinker and a fast-learner of new things, he is quick to bring out
possible ideas and solutions to the table. I think of him as not only a great engineer, but has the skill
set to take the lead on new opportunities as well. Thus, I wholeheartedly endorse Viswa in
whatever endeavor he decides to take on.quot;
— Jack Choy, Software Engineer, Hewlett-Packard, worked directly with Viswa at Hewlett-Packard
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