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Bengaluru Area, India

Learning and delivering full stack software products with end to end implementation of mobile App, backend software, database and cloud. Building capable team.

Bangalore

Leading network engineering team working on Aruba-OS and Aruba-CX products portfolio. Transformed the team with technology ownership culture that resulted in Quality releases as per customer requirements. Set up cross functional team to solve critical customer escalations within SLA. Collaboration with Sales and PLM (Product Management) to accelerate sales. Executed series of projects for Unified Wired and Wireless portfolio for HPE-Aruba product line. Received highest Quality (team) award for improving quality and automation coverage. Accelerating innovation, filing invention disclosures for USPTO submissions and mentoring engineers.

Bangalore

Delivered "Designed in India" product ASR903. Created test strategy from hardware bring up stage to FCS with innovative focus and executed with laser sharp focus on quality. Cross functional collaboration with hardware, development, testing and release teams of this product. Proved execution leadership with multi site team and heavy engagement of Partner Engineering team.Lead ASIC testing from software point of view to discover initial hiccups under scaled operations. Created few innovative solutions to test stress/scale of ASIC.FCS of ME4600 platform with ODM/OEM strategy with Partner Company.Test ownership of mature product ME3600/3800. Driven quality a notch above that reduced customer escalations drastically.

Bangalore

Ownership of 7600 platform that generated multi billion USD for Cisco. Diverse responsibilities of People management, technical management, product testing and quality ownership/responsibility, solving critical customer issues and release management.Proven leadership in keeping highest customer satisfaction. Engaged with Bharti Airtel, BSNL, Tata, Qwest, Saudi Telecom, SingTel, Windstream etc.

Bangalore

Diverse knowledge of networking protocols. Very detailed execution on L2 Switching protocols on Cisco Catalyst 5500 and 6500 product - VLAN, Trunks, Spanning Tree, Port Security, Dot1x, Port Channel, flow control etc.Worked on ATM LAN Emulation technology. Owned system and solution testing for ATM service modules of Catalyst 5500/6500.L3 routing protocol knowledge.Achieved Cisco Outstanding engineer award.

Bengaluru Area, India

Development and test role for Motorola Codex series of routers. Development and testing of networking features like NAT, OSPF, X.25 etc.

Surat Area, India

Vadodara Area, India

Design and development of residential and commercial security systems. Authorize entry of humans and vehicles depending on different methods. I did hardware design, PCB layout, Assembly Programming and C interface for this product.