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San Jose State University

Visvesvaraya Technological University

•Worked on AWS services (EC2, lambda, S3, ELB, VPC, CloudWatch, CFT). Developed Load Balancer sandwich solutionset (lambda+CFT) for   handling autoscaling of EC2 instances.
• Understanding of modules in open stack. Familiar with components: “nova”,“neutron”. 
•Developed plugins on Networking management system to poll virtual instance data - public/private clouds (GCP, Nutanix)
•Orchestration of virtual instances on Open Stack[Mirantis, RedHat] solutions using Fuel 
•Familiar with Juniper -Contrail. Developed orchestration templates for Service Chaining and Service Scaling functions. 
•Validating virtual firewall software releases on various versions and types of cloud platforms like Azure, HyperV.
•Involved in design discussions with cross functional groups such as Product management, QA and technical Docs.

Principal Software Engineer

Senior Staff Engineer

•	Creation, maintenance of Virtual Data Centre on open stack and VMware solutions using cloud manager.
•	Understanding of modules in open stack. Familiar with components: “nova”,“neutron”. 
•	Designed and executed test cases for the orchestration and traffic steering of the virtual data center.
•	Automated test cases for traffic performance (KPI) on VNF-host, handling services on Smart Service Card using Perl.
•	Performed testing for VNF as an edge router; scaling for routing protocols (BGP,OSPF) and FIB scenarios .
•	Member of the CI/CD team for local QBOT qualifications. Familiar with Jenkins, GIT.
•	Worked closely with developers to set up required topology, bring up the replication setup for the bugs logged and verified the fix.

Software Engineer II,Functional Test,Network Function Virtualization group

•	Hands-on experience in configuration and trouble shooting of switches and routers. Worked on layers 2-4-IP Networking
•	Resolved issues on Mac flooding, VLAN programming within the device, DHCP server/ relay configuration/trouble shooting, Spanning tree configuration/resolved loops, QOS configuration/ packet drops and SNMP polling.
•	Provided product support and performed testing on platform related features as Virtual-chassis and storm control. 
•	Developed scripts to calculate the CPU usage, collecting logs, and filter SSH attacks. Analyzed device reboot/issues.
•	Worked on trouble shooting at enterprise level production network, handled escalations. Documented and replicated customer network topologies/problems on EX - JUNIPER switches and IXIA-network and coordinated with the engineering for providing fixes to customers.

Advanced technical support engineer III ( Juniper-EX)

•	Worked on SSR, SE platforms executing System test cases. Analyzed and debugged the packet flow through the SSR.
•	Configured OSPF emulations on IXIA-N2X to test performance and scaling test cases of OSPF where route learning, adjacency bring up and CPU utilization were measured for different scenarios. 
•	Developed an internal tool in Perl for the System Test team to reduce the scripting time by generating the base script required for any test case to be automated. The tool also sets up the Test-bed through the use of Internal ARTS APIs.

Networking Intern ( System test, IP and Broadband Group )

•	Setup hardware (test bed) required to test the Automatic Channel Switching Functionality on 802.11ac-wireless Access Point chip. (4706NR+4360CH5).
•	Developed test cases and configuration files (nvram files), performed manual tests to verify 80 MHz channel properties of 802.11 ac, and automated the tests using Tcl.
•	Performed throughput measurements between Access points for TCP/UDP- uplink, downlink and bi-directional traffic on Access Point chips (802.11n) using Ixia-chariot.

Engineering Intern ( Access Point test, WLAN Group)

•	Developed the Functional Test plan after Requirements Gathering and was involved in the end-to-end functional testing 
•	Developed stand alone PERL modules to extract user records used in automation of the Web based application testing.
•	Monitored Quality check (trouble shooting) and involved in setting up of the test environment. - HP Quality Center 9.2