Arora Harish

Strategic Partner to Executive Leadership. I serve as the operational expert and strategic advisor, translating executive vision into verifiable, high-impact execution. My focus is on preparing the organization—and by extension, the customer—for sustained success. I specialize in establishing trusted governance and driving organizational transformations across complex, international environments. Operational Integrity & Efficiency: Design and implement operational frameworks that guarantee predictable execution, efficiency gains, and risk mitigation. I optimize workflows and resource allocation to free up executive time by 30% for critical strategic thinking. Strategic Advisory & Execution: Lead the planning and execution of the CEO's highest-priority initiatives and cross-functional projects. I ensure alignment across departments (from Product to P&L) and guarantee projects are delivered on time, budget, and scope. Organizational Cohesion & Communication: Manage internal and external communications to maintain clarity, transparency, and trust across the leadership team and the wider organization. I build high-performing management cadences and foster a culture of accountability. I am the dedicated force ensuring your executive strategies are grounded in flawless operation, driving not just growth, but sustainable, governed success.

Led the multi-year transformation of the ESXi hypervisor build system from SCons to Bazel, creating a scalable, observable, and secure developer platform used across global teams. •⁠ ⁠Strategy & ownership: Defined short- and long-term goals; led migration strategy for VMware’s flagship ESXi build system and driver toolchains. •⁠ ⁠Platform architecture: Integrated custom toolchains for C/C++, Go; unified x86 & ARM64 builds in a single process; standardized kernel/user space module builds. •⁠ ⁠Custom engineering: Built Bazel rules for Linux/Microsoft driver migrations; upstreamed changes; codified test policies for all build-system code changes. •⁠ ⁠Performance & tuning: Optimized local/remote builds with RBE/RBC; instrumented real-time metrics and dashboards; cut P90 build time from 100→25 minutes (−75%). •⁠ ⁠Scale & enablement: Mentored distributed teams (India, China, US); reduced hardware requirements and cost during acquisition-driven capacity changes. •⁠ ⁠Business impact: Accelerated developer deploy/debug cycles; improved release cadence; reduced infra spend via cache and cross-arch consolidation.

Owned developer experience and secure delivery across large monorepos and cloud services; delivered zero-trust service meshes and GPU-accelerated data pipelines. • DX platform: Built a Golang CI/CD framework with 25+ sanity/custom checks across Java, Python, Go, Bazel/Starlark; centralized library versioning. • Secure services: Implemented credential management with public/private key control; designed zero-trust gRPC microservices using protobuf and IBM root certs. • Cloud migration: Maintained Jenkins & Travis; migrated services from IBM Cloud to Red Hat OpenShift post-acquisition; improved reliability and portability. • Performance engineering: Accelerated Parquet processing via NVIDIA GPUs, delivering ~30x speedup over CPU-based workflows. • Governance & cost: Established contributor cost recovery for platform usage; enabled Python 2/3 rules in one repo; contributed to open source. • Tech stack: Kubernetes, Docker, ingress/networking, L3/L7 security; CI/CD controls; microservices; platform SRE.

Shipped cloud storage products and APIs integrating with EMC arrays; built control-plane services and user interfaces. • Product delivery: Java Spring REST APIs; Flex-based GUI; Android client for admin/control flows. • Cloud tiering & block storage: Developed EMC Cloud Tiering Appliance for file virtualization; enhanced Cinder driver for block storage. • Ecosystem integration: Ensured compatibility with EMC VNX/VNXe; improved driver coverage and reliability.