Shalaka Naik

Shalaka Naik has a diverse work experience in the field of software engineering and quality assurance. Shalaka started their career in 2007 as a QA Engineer at Ixia, where they developed TCL tests to diagnose software and hardware bugs and gained a thorough understanding of various protocols. During their time at Ixia, they also developed a TCL/Tk GUI automation tool for conducting stress tests.

In 2010, Shalaka joined Broadcom as a Senior DVT Staff Engineer. In this role, they deployed and tested the Broadcom FCoE Converged Network adapter on Dell, HP, and IBM datacenter blade and rack servers. Shalaka also owned the Windows FCoE driver testing effort and created and executed test cases to verify Ethernet/Fiber-channel protocol functionality.

In 2014, Shalaka moved to QLogic as a Senior DVT Staff Engineer. Here, they developed a web-based automation tool using the Python Django framework to validate new releases of chip firmware. Shalaka used a REST-based approach to push firmware and run tests on slave servers, and utilized PostgreSQL for storing configurations and test results.

Most recently, Shalaka joined Stellus Technologies in 2017 as a Sr. Software Engineer. Further details about their role and responsibilities at Stellus Technologies are not provided.

Shalaka Naik completed their Master's Degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the University of Southern California from 2005 to 2007.