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Seattle, Washington, United States

Developing next generation compute infrastructure for container workloads using Kubernetes.Developing system and services for capacity planning, vending, allocations and utilization.

Greater Seattle Area

VMWare-Kubernetes-Engine (VKE)Working as part of team offering fully managed Kubernetes as-a service on public cloud.We create, provision and manage multi master smart kubernetes cluster on Amazon AWS.I worked on and own several features some of which includes.1. Rolling upgrade of kubernetes image version.2. Upgrade rollback.3. Disaster recovery.4. CLI client to interact with server.Apart from this, I developed and integrated secure HTTP based REST engine which helps expose REST endpoint by system services. This engine is consumed by multiple services which powers security , authorization and authentication of this offering.Technologies involved: Go lang, Docker containers, Kubernetes, AWS EC2, ELB, S3, ETCD, Photon linux distribution.

Bellevue, Wa

Photon OS: (Open Source Project)Project Photon OS is an open source minimal Linux container host optimized for cloud-native applications, cloud platforms, and VMware infrastructure.This is open source project which is available publicly at:https://github.com/vmware/photonI worked and own several modules some of which includes.1. Module owner for guest OS customization.2. Appliance migration. (Moving several VMware appliance to run on photon OS. vCenter runs on Photon OS now)3. One of the initial member of team taking product from technical preview release to GA4. Major contributor to its public repository at github.Technologies involved:C, python, shell, linux RPM based package managementC-REST-Engine. (Open Source Project)Minimal HTTP(S) server written in ANSI C, supporting both Windows and Linux platform.Only developer, responsible from 1st line of code to making it public and delivering to customers. Multiple services uses it within VMWare.This is open source software project under Apache license which is available publicly athttps://github.com/vmware/c-rest-engineTechnologies Involved:C, Linux, Windows, multi threading, socket programming, HTTP, openssl.

San Francisco Bay Area

Developing next generation infrastructure for Ericsson IP based Operating Systems. Involved in developing highly optimized, scalable distributed systems deployed in Ericsson's SSR product line.This system provides same view of data across all OS instance running on embedded devices like routers by real time syncing mechanisms.Technologies involved: C/Unix, User level networking, Sockets, Inter-process communication, event driven programming, multithreading, OS synchronization primitives, race conditions.

San Jose, California

Worked on cloud computing. (Data Center Business Unit)Integrated Cisco Nexus switches with OpenStack cloud infrastructure. Worked on the networking component of OpenStack called Quantum/Neutron with help of Cisco Nexus/UCS plugin to collect data from switch and analyze performance related parameters over UI at OpenStack called Horizon.Technologies Involved: Python/VirtualMachines/ Virtual Data Center/ Networking.

Bangalore, India

Worked on IMS applications, Wireless Protocols and Solution Team, SIP, RTP , RTCP protocols. Video telephony, VoIP, VoLTEIMS applications on Samsung Galaxy Series of Tablets and smatphone.Developer for Video Telephony, Voice over IP(VoIP), VoLTE solutionsEstablishing media session in connection to SIP session.Extraction of camera/mike raws data, processing, encoding using different audio and video Codecs like (H264, H263, EVRC, AMR, JPEG), RTP packetization, sending over UDP Socket, reading from socket at other peer, depacketization, decoding, displaying on screen.Acted as Media Engineer.Worked on Qualcomm and Samsung Chipset.Techincal skills:OS: Android, Ubuntu/Linux/UNIXLanguage: C (Expert), Java(Working).Protocols/RFC : SIP(Basic), RTP, RTCP, TCP/IP Version Control: Perforce, Clearcase.Others: Wireshark, ADB logcat,GDB, JNI (Java Native Interface)

Bangalore

MultiParty Conference Chat.Implementation of chat feature including group chat on complete UNIX environment.Coded the admin module, maintained data base of users in form of raw formated ASCII file, performed authentication feature, controling user rights.SELECT system call and its use. Socket Programming Technical Skills:Language: COS: UNIXProtocol: TCP,UDP IP

Master Of Science (Ms), Computer Science

Ms in Computer Sciences

B Tech, Computer Science, 77.26/100 First Class With Distinction

Activities and Societies: Executive member and Student Co-ordinator of Training and Placement Cell, Cochin University, IndiaMajor Courses.