Jai Koolwal Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Expanded scope to manage a global org of 10 Software Engineers & Security Architects across 2 teams with tech leads. Built secure architecture frameworks & security products in vulnerability management, network & infrastructure security verticals for LinkedIn’s production & corporate fleet.

Mountain View, CA, US

• Led several initiatives to deliver intent-driven network security across Google
• Developed long range plans & forward-looking roadmap for Google Enterprise's firewall strategy
• Automated security policy enforcement and auditing for onboarding new vendors
• Led development and maintenance of network security toolchain
• Authored RFP qualification criteria for next generation security products
• Led NPI of next generation firewalls to drive multi-vendor strategy

San Francisco, California, US

• Scaled and managed global production network security infrastructure as tech lead.
• Architected the framework to accelerate security posture enforcement from 21 days to less than 1 day
• Conceptualized tools to automate firewall and ACL deployments by leveraging declarative data stores
• Designed a security solution to ensure the global LB VIPs are PKI standard compliant
• Led a team of software engineers to automate network security policy validation
• Led proof of concept initiatives to evaluate & test different vendors’ equipment

San Francisco, California, US

• Tech Lead for global patching strategy across network security assets
• Designed 100G firewall solution to meet security requirements with growing business capacity needs
• Implemented BGP path manipulation to deterministically control traffic across multi-geo datacenters
• Led maintenance windows to complete migrations to new architecture minimizing end user impact
• Authored runbooks for junior engineers to complete large scale migrations across global DCs
• Successfully handled on-call responsibilities over weekends & after hours on weekdays

San Jose, CA, US

• Owned and resolved customer escalations for sensitive accounts by leading cross functional teams.
• Automated, tedious configuration and troubleshooting tasks to reduce ticket volume by ~50%
• Fostered junior engineering teams via technical training & practical lab sessions
• Detected DDOS attacks on network edge & created configurations to mitigate future events
• Designed inter-site high availability clustering solutions with ASAs utilizing global datacenters
• Designed solutions involving multi-context ASA Firewalls in routed/transparent mode

San Jose, CA, US

• Handled complex network problems for Cisco’s Enterprise customers in extreme pressure situations.
• Trained a new team in Asia by going on-site for a month, acted as their team lead & mentor
• Analyzed packet captures using Wireshark & tcpdump to improve network performance
• Created scripts to automate troubleshooting tasks and provide Root Cause Analysis
• Configured WCCP between web proxies & several network devices including 6500 series & Nexus 7K
• Resolved critical network situations in a short time by working on UNIX proxy devices

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Worked at the Network Operations Center at TransUnion, one of the largest credit bureaus in the world.
• Configured eBGP peering between edge routers and ISP, maintained company’s iBGP network
• Completed VPN troubleshooting on calls with customers to successfully establish connectivity
• Configured DMVPN and GRE tunnels with IPSec
• Configured ACLs, NAT/PAT, Conduits (PIX specific), network-objects & service-objects on ASAs
• Configured Netflow on critical enterprise devices for monitoring traffic flows

Schaumburg, IL, US

• Configured DMVPN, IPSEC, GRE, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, DHCP & NAT across the company network
• Set up firewalls (ASAs – 5510s, 5520s, 5580s, PIXs) in Active/Standby pairs
• Configured Cisco 26xx, Cisco 29xx, Cisco28xx, Cisco 37xx and Cisco 65xx routers/switches
• Deployed site to site VPN, GRE tunnels and the DMVPN to connect offices across the world

M.S., Electrical And Computer Engineering

B.E., Electronics And Communication