Gokul Bhat, Ph.D. Email and Phone Number

Reliability, resiliency, observability - We do it all in the performance engineering team and more.- Focus on identifying the right framework for the purpose- Deliver highly available, resilient products while optimizing overall spend- Identify gaps in large scale distributed system as part of infrastructure upgrades and maintenance to ensure extremely quick mean time to resolution

• Manage live streaming ingest and delivery along with cloud-storage product performance• Drive Akamai's roadmap to deliver cost-effective infrastructure and network systems• Build and visualize key performance indicators for establishing product baseline, defining availability and resiliency• Direct and coordinate development, architect, QA and product management teams in tuning product behavior to achieve 5 9s of reliability and customer satisfaction• Oversee Akamai's log delivery product's performance and delegate tasks to establish product quality framework and support

• Collect and analyze data from one of the largest networks in the world to discern trends and anomalies• Work in a distributed network / content delivery environment on Linux, applying advanced skills in network diagnostics and debugging tools, and the related network protocols and implementations, routing protocols, and application level protocols to measure, analyze, characterize and improve performance, robustness, availability and scalability of large distributed content delivery systems• Identify and resolve issues in delivering high quality on-demand and live video

• Enhancing AGI's Satellite Tool Kit (STK) accuracy using network modeling and simulation (ns-3) to predict network behavior in highly dynamic environment

• Implement intra-flow network coding for TCP applications in ns-3• Analyze cross layer interaction across the network stack with network coding• Optimize delay in the network by dynamic packet combining in random linear network coding• Analyze performance of intra-session network coding for bursty traffic applications like streaming video• Reviewer for IEEE MILCOM papers in the field of network coding and its effects on the performance of Transport and MAC (Media Access Control) layer protocols

• Taught and demonstrated with examples the concepts of network simulator, ns-3• Designed and assisted 65 students for a course project involving simulation of different networks in ns-3

• Designed and implemented proprietary MAC protocol from scratch in ns-3 simulator• Debugged ARQ and MAC Scheduler modules in C-based source-code

• Implemented a novel TDMA (Time-Division Multiple Access) based protocol for real-time and broadband data• Performed link-level and system-level simulations of the protocol in ns-2• Evaluated the performance of the MAC layer protocol for multiple TCP sessions for different quality traffic