Full stack application developer

Full stack application developer. Moved to HPE through acquisition.

Openstack, cloud, NFV management and orchestration.

Acufore provides mechanical design and software services to clients in North America and Europe.Worked as a consultant managing the software engineers developing responsive web applications in PHP, JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS.

Rainnet Inc. is building a rule based network appliance management system for discovery and configuration of network equipment from Cisco, Juniper and cheaper commodity network appliances.Worked remotely with the main development team in the USA.Network inventory modeling, and discoveryInfrastructure and configuration management system

This was a developer role in the Service Aware Manager (SAM) team in the IP networks division. Part of the SAM team integrating Microwave Packet Radio (MPR) family of mobile backhaul devices.Also worked on improving the performance and scalability of SAM with respect to the number of MPRs that can be managed and the total network metrics that can reliably be collected. Worked with the QA team.

Worked as an external consultant to the Ignite team at TCS. This was a very short assignment of two months.Architecture and implementation consultant for a remote application management solution. This was for collecting, aggregating and reporting application life cycle and performance metrics of a vocational skill training and simulation kit developed by the Ignite team.

Senior Technical Architect was the last position held, after joining the development team in 2004 as a Software Engineer. This is the longest stint so far; leading and mentoring teams, conceiving, architecting and implementing software frameworks and solutions over the years.Architect and lead developer of a lightweight NMS framework with full FCAPS featuresCustomizing the NMS framework for multiple deployment scenarios to manage very large networks (ISP, defence)Architect and lead developer of a lightweight SNMP proxy for integrating non-SNMP devicesDesigner and lead developer of a fault management system (FMS) based on TMF RAM specificationsLead developer of multiple software plugins developed for an earlier in-house NMS productMain contributor to multiple software porting and stabilization effortsContributor to performance, scalability and reliability testing efforts

AID is an NGO that does a lot of grassroots level social interventions, especially in the southern states of India like Tamil Nadu. Volunteered at AID, Bangalore Chapter. Was part of multiple field trips to drought affected areas of Tamil Nadu, interacting with rural women, and preparing field trip reports for further followup.

Joined as a Software Engineer in the product support team, moved to release engineering and software development within a few months. This stint provided a lot of opportunities to work in the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) domain using TIBCO SDKs.Lead developer in the TIBCO LDAP adapter teamIdentified and fixed many memory leaks and stability issues on multiple platforms like Solaris,WindowsRelease and porting engineer for multiple adapters in the TIBCO portfolio

Volunteer for the Science Writers Forum of Kerala (KSSP). Was involved in science popularization efforts.

Worked as a part time C/C++ programming instructor in a couple of places.

Research assistant in the Department of Aerospace Engineering focusing on experimental and computational fluid dynamics.