Abhi Aphale currently serves as Associate Vice President of Custom Storage Firmware Development and Firmware Validation and QA at Marvell Technology, a position held since March 2019, with prior roles such as Senior Director and Director of Firmware Validation. From January 2016 to March 2019, Abhi held the position of Director of Software QA at Stellus Technologies, overseeing QA, Tools, DevOps, Performance Analysis, and HW Platform functions. Abhi also served as Director of Software QA at Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center for a brief period in late 2015 and worked as Principal Engineer at LSI Corporation from February 2007 to October 2014. Early career experience includes project management at Wipro Technologies focusing on avionics projects and firmware engineering at Otis Elevator. Abhi holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Shivaji University, obtained from 1995 to 1999.