SUMMARY:

• Extensive & In - depth background in Software Product Architecting, Development, Operations and QE
• Passionate about Languages, Programming and Cloud/Virtualization Technologies
• Have worked in multiple domains - Cloud - Openstack, SDN, Storage, Database, Web Caching, Security, Networking (Routing/Switching) , Ability to cross-correlate ideas and tools
• Excellent Inter-Personal, Communication and Cross-Cultural as well as Documentation Skills.
• Mentored and Conducted training courses for junior engineers on various languages, and technologies.
• Active in the Open Source community

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Linux(RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, Centos), Embedded)
• Linux internals/Administration
• Unix (BSD, Solaris, SINIX, Digital Unix, HP-UX)Windows
• C, C++Perl, Python, Ruby, UNIX/Linux Shells - Bash, Shell etc., Tcl/Tk
• Java/J2EE
• Good Familiarity with Go
• TCP/IP stack
• L2/L3 level protocols
• NMS - SNMP, RMON
• Routing (OPF, BGP, RIP)
• 802.11
• Traffic Generators
• HAProxy
• Netconf/Yang
• NAS
• CIFS/Samba
• RAID
• Clustering/High Availability, iSCSI
• SAN
• SQL
• MySQL/MariaDB
• Informix PostgreSQL
• NoSQL
• MongoDB, CouchDB
• Virtualization - Qemu/KVM
• Openstack- Keystone
• Heat, Nova, Neutron, Glance
• Storage, VMWareVagrant, Docker, LXC
• Python
• Orchestration -
• Ansible, Chef, Puppet
• Log/Monitoring -
• Splunk, Kibana
• SDN/NFV - Openflow, Open vSwitch, Mininet, OpenflowVmware NSX
• SSL/VPN, Radius, Keystone, RBAC, PKI, Fuzzing Tools
• Project Management
• HTTP, XML, CDN, Caching, Web/App Servers, Web Services, SOAP, REST APINode.js, Javascript, RMQMicroservices
• Test Infrastructure, Automation, Tools development for Performance, Scale, and Reliability Testing, TDD/BDD, ATS/pyATS (Cisco)
• Product & Release Planning, Test/Defect Tracking, Risk Assessment, Scrum, Jenkins, CI/CD, Agile/XP, SCM tools (Git, Clearcase,svn, csv etc.)
• Microsoft Project, WBSTracking, Resource/Budget Planning

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Senior Technical Architect, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Currently working on architecting, developing and maintaining Cisco Confidential Platform Framework based on Python/ Working on developing VMware NSX support in the framework.
• Earlier part of the Openstack Mercury Installer team - Installation, and Debugging issues related to Openstack, for Telecom market.

Technologies : Openstack, SDN, Linux, Python, Bash, ATS/pyATS, QALi, Eclipse, Linux (RHEL, Centos, Ubuntu).

Confidential

Lead Software Engineer, Sunnyvale/Roseville, CA

Responsibilities:

• Part of Cloud Computing unit, worked on HP Helion (based on Openstack) and CloudSystem development.
• Development of performance/scale test framework in Python , used for scale and stress testing of the product currently (approximately 7K lines of Python code.
• Played a crucial role in developing dynamic updates to the HP Cloud platform. Significant contributions in building Patch generation scripts, and Ansible playbooks .
• Architected & Developed tools for Openstack orchestration and performance characterization for large scale cloud .
• Open vSwitch based network setup and debugging .
• Thorough understanding of Openstack internals, installation, development and debugging, and SDN/NFV areas

Technologies: Openstack, Openstack based HP Cloud, VMWare/ESX, Sphere, Cloud Platform configuration, installation and operations, Python, Bash, Linux (Ubuntu/RHEL), Eucalyptus/AWS, Ansible, Chef

Confidential

CTO/Product Dev.

Responsibilities:

• Developed the Product Road-map, and Technology Strategy, and Drove implementation efforts for the Life sciences and Medical Informatics, product lines.
• Built the team from ground up. Worked with multiple cutting edge technologies , to evaluate and integrate these in product lines.
• Set up a Cloud based Computational Biology Platform , as a backend for the Product suite being developed.

Technologies: Genomics, Grid based Computational Biology Platform. BioPerl, Medical Informatics, Parallelization and Optimization of Algorithms, AWS (used for initial Genomics/Proteomics analysis)

Confidential, San Jose, CA

Automation Team Lead

Responsibilities:

• consolidated data centers. Introduced many innovative ideas, including semi-automated failure analysis for analyzing the test failures, which helped reduce the release test cycle time by almost 20%.
• Was also awarded micro-VC award within the Cisco business unit.

Technologies : Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and RIP), L2-L3 Layer Protocols, Cisco Switches/Routers configuration & management , Linux, Tcl/Tk, Perl , Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Virtualization (Virtual Box, VMWare), and Automation using Cisco ATS System, Ixia, and Pageant for Traffic Tests.

Confidential

QE Manager, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Drove the Integration and QE related efforts across Confidential , to integrate various FOSS components and libraries from diverse sources, in the product line to ensure product and release stability.
• Worked with multiple teams, spread across US, Canada and China to ensure that the appropriate explicit, processes were set up .

Technologies: Embedded Linux, Linux Kernel and various Open Source components, QEMU, JTAG, ARM based smart phone platform development, Bluetooth stack, C, various scripting languages - Python, Perl. XML stack

Confidential

Q E Team Lead, Sunnyvale, CA

Responsibilities:

• Managed the Quality Engineering and Integration efforts for SSL/VPN product platform, feature and cluster testing.
• Handled the entire Quality Engineering life cycle efforts for the SSL/VPN product line.
• Worked with a diverse team of engineers from two different organizations, which were getting integrated. Did work on building Automation framework, using Python.

Technologies : Linux, AAA (Radius, LDAP, Kerberos), RBAC/Policy based security mechanism, Content Filtering and Rewriting, Mercury tools, Linux, Python, Perl, C++, XML suites, SOAP

Confidential

Senior Software Engineer/Manager, San Jose, CA

Responsibilities:

• Part of the initial core team , building a next generation NAS product-line, for Confidential market.
• Played Critical role in setting up Quality Engineering efforts , and Initial Linux Platform Setup for Opteron processor based systems, which was crucial since the product was based on COTS hardware and Open Source components. The File system stack was augmented with modules & drivers developed in-house.
• The platform was based on relatively new, Opteron x86-64 architecture.
• Set up the Test Lab and QE Infrastructure including Test Management, Test Execution and Automation as well as Test Suites for NAS Testing.
• Developed fault injection tools (Linux modules) for testing file system derived from XFS.
• Dealt with External software vendors and NFS benchmarking efforts.