Summary
Manu Sharma is an Applied AI and Data Science leader with 11 years of experience, currently driving self-aware storage innovations at HPE R&D from Bengaluru. He leads initiatives that bring explainable AI and real-time edge-to-cloud performance insights to SSDs and cloud data services, translating ML research into production inference for operational decisioning. His background spans insurance, consulting, and enterprise storage where he built ML-enabled root-cause analysis, workload-component mappings, and text-analytics solutions using PySpark/Python and embeddings. Trained in mechanical engineering with management and analytics certifications, he blends domain fluency with practical data science execution. As a DL/ML specialist and educator, he balances research-oriented thinking with stakeholder-facing delivery to create self-sustaining, optimized systems. An understated strength is his ability to connect low-level system behavior to high-level business outcomes, making complex explainability work actionable for operators.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Mechanical Engineering at Rajasthan University
Certification, Business Analytics & Business Optimization, Certification, Business Analytics & Business Optimization at IIT Delhi
PGDM, Finance, Marketing, PGDM, Finance, Marketing at Jagan Institute of Management Studies (JIMS)
English, Hindi