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California, United States

Santa Clara, California, Us

(Pluribus Networks acquired by Arista Networks) VxLAN based Spine Leaf Fabric Architectures including Layer2/Layer3 networking. Inter fabric stitching over WAN using BGP-EVPN technologies. Responsibilities also include handling advanced customer escalations, through reproduction and validation Unified Cloud Fabric which seamlessly integrates the server networking (NVIDIA Bluefield DPU) with the switching fabric. It allows to stretch traditional switch fabric to the edge networking with security and micro segmentation.- Requirement Analysis for greenfield and brownfield network deployments- Creating, defining Scope of Work- Deployment of SDN based datacenter and DC inter-connects.- Virtualized Data Centers - Underlay / Overlay technologies - VxLAN, L2 / L3 Networking. L2 extension across multiple Data Centers- Network packet broker and L1 virtual wire deployments across multiple switches- Deploy Network Orchestration, Monitoring and Analytics Tool- Troubleshooting the pre-production and production customer issues and provide timely resolutions.Sr. Technical Solution Engineer Working on ARISTA EOS customer escalations and solutions along with Netvisor OS Customers.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

 Working customer centric solutions validation on Distributed Adaptive Cloud Fabric built using BRCM white boxes running Netvisor One Software and Analytics using UNUM. Solutions are based on VxLAN based Spine Leaf Fabric Architectures including Layer2/Layer3 networkig. Inter fabric stitching over WAN using BGP-EVPN technologies. Responsibilities also include handling advanced customer escalations, through reproduction and validation. Added responsibilities includes visiting customer site on setup of the production network, upgrade software and live deployment. Software Defined Networks, vNetworks, Edge Computing, Distributed Adaptive Cloud Fabric, Open Networking, Programmable (REST), Layer2/Layer3, EVPN, VXLAN are key technologies we work with.

San Jose, Ca, Us

I lead the engineering development test team for Security Portfolio in Enterprise Networking Group. I was responsible for Security Test on ASR1Ks/ISR4K/ISR1K/ENCS-ISRv/CSR family fixed , modular and virtual platforms with >50% security attach rate. Engaged in many customer escalations and CAP cases ongoing basis working with customer facing teams- Branch Security and Cloud Security (Unified threat defense) including IPS/IDS, App FireWall, URLF, VPN, – Secure Connectivity- VPNs (Many flavors such as Flex, DMVPN..), IOT scale solutions (Hardware Crypto Engines from Intel, AMD, Cavium and ARM)– MacSeC on hardware platforms– NAT, Classification and ACLs– Threat Defense Portfolio - Intrusion Detection/Prevention System (IDS/IPS), including virtualized solution based on Open Source Snort and SourceFire on ISR platforms (Virtualization (UCS-E)) - Unified Threat Management solution with Cloud Security Router in AWS/GCP/AZURE clouds. - Trust Sec ( SGT classification, propagation and policy enforcement) - Encrypted Threat Analytics (ETA) Cisco Pioneer Award winning technology. As an added responsibility, I also lead the Voice GW and DSP Farm test efforts on ISR family of products with 30% attach rate.- Voice GW (VG202XM/204XM/VG224/VG310/320/VG350/VG4xx),- High Density voice modules SM-X-24FXS/4FXO / SM-X-72FXS- Voice Interface Modules on ISR G2 and ISR4K- DSP (PVDM3, PVDM4, and SM-PVDM-500/1000/2000/3000)- DSPfarm onboard and SM- secure voice (SRTP), new codec support

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead the test efforts for nexus 9k products for various software features. Lead test efforts for Nexus 2k/5k/5600/6k product line in SSVPG, part of Data Center Group. This included many new hardware platform architectures and software feature set. Lead global cross functional teams. Lead the test efforts for virtualized Datacenter fabric, responsible for End-to-End Solution testing based on Nexus 2/5/6/7K Spine-Leaf architecture, with VMWare compute on UCS platforms, using Cisco DCNM/UCSD based software controller/orchestrator. Periodically review quality metrics data with Executives. Constant engagement with product marketing and customer escalation teams to provide better quality products to customers. Prior to Nexus team, lead the catalyst 6500 platform test teams and worked with global team to smoothly transition the sustaining work and free up local team to take up next generation nexus product line. Quickly ramp up the team on new product lines and delivered quality products on target to customers. Engaged in many customer escalations ongoing basis working with customer facing teams

San Jose, Ca, Us

Lead Layer2 and platform architecture test teams on flagship Catalyst 6500 distributed switching platform. Built the highly effective team through hiring and retaining top notch talent. Delivered many software features and hardware platforms to meet customer needs. Worked with cross functional teams on critical issues and addressed the problems on time. Worked on Virtual Switching System on catalyst 6500 platform to provide scalability and high availability. Engaged regularly in many customer escalations working with customer facing teams

San Jose, Ca, Us

Responsible for MPLS feature test efforts on 4Billion$ yearly run rate catalyst 6500 platform on multiple parallel releases. Test activities included new Hardware Platforms and components as well. MPLS Software features included EoMPLS, VPLS, Layer3 MPLS VPNs, Traffic Engineering. Test effort was mainly focused on Platform Depended HW forwarding aspects of the Software .

San Jose, Ca, Us

Worked on Layer2 and MPLS technologies . Q/A manual and automation test efforts.Engaged with release management as well.

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Part of the Platform Engineering team, worked on development, test and releases of high quality Informix Database software on various flavors of Unix such as Solaris, HP-UX, IBM ,Siemens ..

Worked on RAID controller software development on Novell netware platform . Also worked on Configuring and implementation of network management software for Symbol Devices .

Image Processing Software Design and Development . The Software applications were used for analyzing remote sensing satellite images by Space Dept of India.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management And Strategy

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