Resume

Himanshu Saxena

Software Senior Engineer at Dell Technologies

Shrewsbury, Massachusetts

Experience

Software Senior Engineer

Dell Technologies (EMC) · Hopkinton, MA

  • Own DISA STIG customer escalations, STIG software testing, and defect reporting across VxRail and Dell Private Cloud.
  • Authored and continue to own STIG enforcement for VxRail Manager (Python and Bash).
  • Built AI-powered log analysis with Flask, RAG over Chroma, and MCP connectors for Jira, GitHub, and Confluence.
  • Developed an agentic AI framework of reusable skills for multi-step root-cause analysis.
  • Reliability and telemetry work, including First-Try Upgrade Success Rate improvements and a DNS workaround that reduced upgrade escalations.
  • Lifecycle engineering across vSphere, vSAN, ESXi, Linux, PowerShell, and REST APIs.

Software Engineer II

Dell Technologies (EMC) · Hopkinton, MA

  • Developed the STIG enforcement implementation for VxRail Manager.
  • Infrastructure automation: Python modules and Ansible playbooks and guides for Day-1 and Day-2 VxRail operations; contributor to the public Dell Ansible VxRail collection.
  • API quality, data analytics and reporting, and triage with VMware and support organizations.
  • Dell Technologies Inspire Game Changer 1 Award (October 2021) for the first Ansible playbook shipped with VxRail.

IT Business Analyst

John Hancock · Boston, MA

  • ETL in Informatica and an Azure data warehouse, plus Power BI reporting (55 reports and 12 dashboards).
  • Workflow automation with Microsoft Flow and Adobe Sign; Salesforce, Dynamics, and SQL data work.

Graduate Engineering Trainee

Royal Enfield · Delhi, India

  • Sales and supply-chain analytics, Power BI, forecasting, and inventory.

Education

  • M.S. Operations Research — Northeastern University, College of Engineering, Boston, MA — May 2019
  • B.Tech. Production and Industrial Engineering — Delhi Technological University — June 2015

Teaching assistant: Deterministic Operations Research (Fall 2017); Engineering Probability and Statistics (Fall 2018).

Certifications

  • Nutanix Certified Associate 6 (January 2026)
  • Dell GenAI Foundations (July 2024)
  • Dell Secure Development Blue Belt

Skills

Security & compliance

  • DISA STIG
  • XCCDF
  • hardening

AI

  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • vector databases
  • agentic systems
  • MCP

Languages

  • Python
  • Bash
  • PowerShell
  • YAML
  • SQL

Platforms

  • VxRail
  • Dell Private Cloud
  • VMware
  • Ansible
  • Linux

Containers

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes