SUMMARY:

• 15+ years of IT experience, Strong work experience ofserver performance testing and implementing virtualization using open source tools on Confidential multi - core Arm64 SoC
• 7+ years working experience as Cisco Context Engineer for testing Cisco Enterprise routers and switches in automated distributed manufacturing environment.
• 2+ years of proven industry experience on Sys Admin, Network & Firewall installation, configuration and supporting critical applications in multiple platform environments.
• Strong hardware, software and network debugging skill using various tools and application.
• Highly skilled in network security, firewalls, hardware/software virtualization.
• Extensive working knowledge of hardware reliability and software regression test.
• Embedded software development and application design using open source tools and software.
• Expertise in writing scripts to automate manufacturing process to reduce cost, human error and improve efficiency, performance in highly automated electronics manufacturing environments.
• Strong understanding of Supply chain management in a contract electronics manufacturing environments dealing with most admired high-tech Company.
• Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHEL 6) with 4 years of System Administration experience.
• Mirantis Certified Administrator for OpenStack Professional Level(MCA200)
• Strong working knowledge of executing manual feature test and developing automated test script based on Python.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Programming Languages: Shell Script, C, Python, Cisco AutoTest, Cisco IOS/IOX, Selenium, NI LabView, Matlab, VHDL, SQL

Operating Systems: Linux(Red Hat, Debian Wheezy, Ubuntu, Kali) both on X64 86 and ARM64 based platform, Cisco IOS/IOX, Sun Solaris,, Mac OSX

Server Expertise: Apple Mac Server, NFS, Apache, Samba, DHCP, Puppet, DNS, FTP and LDAP server setup, ThinClient setup, Saltstack

Virtualization, openstack Cloud: QEMU/KVM, Virtualbox, Vagrant, MirantisOpenstack, Redhat

S/W Tools & Utilities: Wireshark, Webmin, RouterOS, VMware and KVM virtualization, kickstartInterfaces: Robot Frame work, Eclipse IDE for embedded Linux application development, Keil IDE, Xilinx IDE for FPGA prototype

Source Control and reporting tools: JIRA test case management tools,SVN, Git, Apple proprietary source code and reporting tools. Cisco tools for testing and developing at Manufacturing environments.

Hardware Tools: JTAG debugger Trace32(Lautarbach), Oscilloscopes, multi-meters, DAQ, Ixia Network analyzers and other custom made test measurement devices.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential, Austin, Texas

Linux System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for implementing virtualization and evaluating the serverperformance of Confidential developed multicore ARM64SoC using open source tools such as QEMU/KVM, virsh and libvirt.
• Implement the nightly build Linux release, update FW through JTAG and apply necessary patch on ARM based SDP system.
• Configured the network setup using Mellanox VFIO PCI-SRIOV Ethernet card on Host and conducted various performance evaluation test on host and Guest vm.
• Developed automated test script to install and configured Host and Guest vm for testing OE and Ubuntu Linux.
• Responsible for debug and root cause ofkernel hang, crash and other failures and openingJira with collected console and JTAG log.
• Participate in engineering team to plan and implementation of various openstack cloud on Arm SoC SDP system.

Confidential, Round Rock, TX

Server test automation Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for writing test plans and test cases for performance evaluation of Confidential Server iDRAC and BMC interface.
• Support the development, execution and debug automated test script for Confidential server on a distributed host environments.

Confidential, Austin

Technology Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for leading a team of offshore engineer on developing test plan and writing test cases based on AT&T design documents on various features of wifi systems .
• Executing test cases manually and then developed the script for QA automation.
• Responsible for implementing POC of OpenStack cloud and puppet in testing lab environment similar to existing Vsphere.
• Configuring server and network setup based on test plan and designed documents.
• Responsible for creating lab setup comprising different vendor's wifi access point, wireless controller, switches and Linux based routers.
• Responsible for configuring and setup of different enterprise vendor's WLAN controller and AP such as Cisco,Ruckus, Aruba and integrating those into distributed server environments.

Confidential, Bakersfield CA

Linux System Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for Installation and configuration of Unix based servers and Cisco network devices.
• Monitoring and logging and installing packages using Puppet.
• Creating and optimizing automaton script based on Bash and Python script.

Confidential, Austin, TX

System and Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Developed and implemented a complete new hardware and software automated manufacturing test infrastructure collaborating with Apple design and development team for most advanced Mac Pro system started from board component level assembly until final products launched in 2014.
• Developed test and automation script using Apple proprietary tools and software package for testing and debugging from component level up- to system level for manufacturing various Apple Mac products.
• Worked closely with Apple team to conduct various hardware reliability and software regression test using various packages, utilities and tools provided by Apple.
• Installed and configured Unix Server, data storage solution, network connectivity with routers, switch, firewall setup and security for manufacturing Apple Mac Pro in a complex M2M distributed network environment.
• Developed and implemented a network based embedded Linux power switching box used for controlling multiple test and diagnostics equipment.
• Used open source tools and software and created ARM based embedded Linux system used for testing, and debugging Cisco and Apple Mac products.
• Developed an in house IDE tools and interfaced with Eclipse IDE. Used it for writing test automation script and debugging Cisco products based on C, Python and shell script.
• Developed a LabView based NI DAQ system used for testing various industrial electronics products.

Senior Test Development Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Worked as Cisco Context engineer with sole responsibility of design, develop, and test automated scripts on Linux/UNIX platform, used for manufacturing Cisco enterprise routers and switches in a distribute network environment covering various Contract manufacturing site from all over the world.
• Developed test and automation script using Cisco proprietary tools based on python and shell script for testing and manufacturing various Cisco products from board to final system level.
• Worked closely with Cisco software and Hardware team for testing and debugging various Cisco products such as Cisco XR 12000 series routers, MGX 8800 switches based on different version of IOS and IOX.
• Sole responsibility of administering test network infrastructure, server performance monitoring, analysis and troubleshooting hardware, and software in distributed manufacturing networks.
• Worked closely with manufacturing team and Cisco operation management to ensure all those infrastructures are available with optimal performance 24X7 and delivered the products before deadline.
• Coordinate with Cisco team to develop a complete new test and debug infrastructure to manufacture Cisco acquired Starent, Linux based products at Confidential Austin.
• Developed and implemented solely a complete test and automation system for testing and manufacturing Cisco industrial grade switch, with a time constraints schedule.

Confidential

Research Associates

Responsibilities:

• Worked as part time Systems Administrator for support and maintenance of graduate IT infrastructure.
• Testing and debugging the FPGA based prototype system board.
• Writing VHDL and C code for image and signal processing application on FPGA device.
• Developed PC based test and data acquisition system using LabView™.
• Developed implemented image processing algorithm on Xilinx FPGA based system.
• Worked as teaching assistant for various undergraduate courses such as Embedded System design and Bioinstrumentation design.