SUMMARY

• Accomplished Technology Leader with proven leadership skills in development of IP technologies; build/manage large trans - national teams.
• Cross-functional expertise for complete product life cycle; opportunity identification, technology options including strategic partnerships, engineering team building, architecture, design, review, implementation, test/beta & deployment; Expertise in large scale software development.
• Expertise in developing leading edge IP systems, Router/switch data plane & software architectures; IP protocols, QoS, Security, Mobility; WLAN, TDM; Overlay technologies, SP/enterprise networks.
• Distributed Systems; HA, Clustering; SDN/OpenFlow; Open Source, Linux/C/C++
• Technical expert/advisory roles at numerous startups; technology & business development
• Building off-shore development teams; turn-key development & delivery

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

Principal System Architect

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Ecosystem options; research/evaluate ecosystem architectures; strategic Wintel evolution
• Prototype distributed, scalable, resilient micro service software platform with Go, Open Source building blocks; Mesos, Zookeeper, Memcached, Cassandra, ZeroMQ, Kafka, Docker; open source frameworks to convert monolithic embedded code base to horizontally scalable, resilient, distributed, microservice architecture; flexible ecosystem for integration of internal/external developed services, fault isolation, managed data sharing, message bus; decouple service creation & infrastructure

Confidential, Sunnyvale, CA

Distinguished Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Clustering solutions for High Availability; IPFIX/Netflow implementation for Wireless Controller
• Re-modularization; externalize shared data; improve concurrency, scalability, stability, fault isolation
• Architecture for Wired/Wireless integration using SDN framework; integration of WLC application proxies & external SDN Controllers via REST; TE paths for selected flows; external partnerships

Confidential, Cupertino, CA

Founder, CTO

Responsibilities:

• Mobile IPTV solutions (Apalya Technologies) deployed in multiple Asian Wireless data carriers for Mobile TV broadcasts including live telecast of Cricket World Cup & Indian Premier Leagues
• Mobile IP TV streaming platform integrating video streams from Satellite, IP streams, VoD
• Service scalability, Authorization, Accounting, quota management
• Multi Adaptation streaming of live content over RTP; RTP Proxy with policy/filtering
• Distributed, load balanced scaling to millions of active subscribers
• Scalable Video conferencing solution (Rebaca Tech.) with innovative dynamic distribution tree
• Auto elected reflectors; load balancing, automatic failover ; dynamic adaptation for QoE
• Unicast/Multicast or mixed networks; Broadband wireless, wireline and LAN
• Deployed in multiple State Governments in India for large scale web video conferencing
• Mobile Content Optimization solutions (Venturi Wireless/Rebaca Tech.)
• Build out a team in India (40+) to deliver advanced capabilities into the core platform
• Video right-sizing solution; architected and implemented a co-processor platform for configurable real time adaptation (transcoding/transrating) of web video streams
• Integrate system with wireless billing infrastructure; deployed with multiple carriers
• Created PC based development system to leverage larger development teams
• Technical consultant to HCL (ODM for Juniper Networks) to develop mobile backhaul solutions for wireless carrier networks; TDM/ATM-IMA emulation over IP/MPLS/MLPPP; help develop system architecture, define/design software architecture; functional specifications; define long/short term deliverables; team requirements, partner technology/methodology training; platform with NPU, framers, L2 switch; integration of third-party stacks & custom software (60+ person team)
• Investigative Battery Prognostics research funded by California Energy Innovation Small Grants program; System to collect battery data for SoC, life cycle analysis; integration of distributed storage into Smart Grid infrastructure to meet Demand-Response requirements of Power utilities.
• Confidential developed patented technology to address the unique challenges of deploying content rich IP services over broadband wireless networks; Confidential solution manages subscriber QoE while maximizing RF spectrum revenue efficiency; the IP centered dynamic QoE solution is deployable across 3G/4G wireless technologies; validated with multiple major carriers worldwide
• Defined roadmap, business plan; investor presentation, team build out with off-shore dev.

Confidential, Santa Clara, CA

System Architect

Responsibilities:

• System Architect of VPLS Metro Ethernet (pre-standard) solution
• System architect of Summit 300-48, switch platform for WLAN solution; defined framework for integrating mercantile silicon; coordinated development across multiple platforms
• High Availability Architect; Next generation platform planning (internal and external designs)

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Sr. Software Engineer

Responsibilities:

• One of the lead platform software architects for Cisco GSR 12000 core router platforms
• Architect of GSR distributed management plane; used in multiple Cisco high end platforms
• Architect of numerous critical GSR subsystems; boot process, interface line card bootstrap, configuration & management; software architect for switch fabric management, redundancy
• Responsible for 6/12 port DS3, CT3 cards; integrated IOS protocols, data plane
• Extensively coordinated with ISP customers, test, manufacturing, TAC