Nitin Shah Email & Phone Number

Littleton, MA

• First engineer recruited to build a new high availability and multi-card ATCA chassis, including switchingfabric for the data center inter-connect and cloud computing market.
• Contributed to a number of key features to deliver a high quality product under tight time constraints tolarge content provider and service provider customers. This included a carrier grade and highly scalablesolution.
• Collaborated closely with developers across multiple sites including; Ottawa, Belfast and Wuhan (China).
• Identified and defined selection criteria to select third party development partners for; messaginginfrastructure, application to manage the northbound interface, and target Linux OS.
• Selected Apache Qpid and then designed API’s to the messaging infrastructure used by all processes inthe system.
• Designed initial Architecture of the early bring up of the modules, using a Discovery process and definingits redundancy behavior.

Lowell, MA

Enhanced and maintained the statistics system for the BIGIP networking product.Role included:- Take over the statistics functionality for the development team.- New feature design and implementations.- Resolve customer issues referred to the development team.- Bug fixes of the current code base.

Acton, MA

• Early member of the startup team. Responsible for overall architecture, design and implementation of the embedded feed handlers to accept high speed real time exchange feeds from the Option Price Reporting Agency..
• Early adopter of the new Intel Nehalem multi core architecture platforms. Responsible for migration and early bring up of the feed handlers on the new Intel Platform at their Parcepany development site. Planned and.
• Designed and implemented other real time book feeds, both TCP connected and Multicast generated feeds, DirectEdge and BATS respectively, targeted for Linux CentOS platforms.
• Using ‘C’, pthreads, linux, exploiting the multicore platform architecture and Agile development process.

Project to program flash of an embedded NEC microcontroller (uPD70F3714) connected to a GUI application running on a PC to download an image in the field.

Marlboro, MA, Westboro, MA

• Linux 2.6 embedded driver development for the ASI (Advanced Switching Interconnect) set of new fabricASIC’s. Developed a design for Fabric Event handling. This involved the interrupt handling capability forprocessing.
• Developed the capability to update the SROM of any node in the fabric. This could be the ASI bridge hostas well as the switches in the network.Responsible for the embedded Linux bring up for the evaluation module.

Westboro, MA

• Hired to lead a team of 7 for a new 12/24 port Infiniband switch project. Defined the requirements, and the project scope. Specified switch functionality, designed and led the implementation. Delivered the switch in 12.
• Reported directly to the VP of software. Hands on management for complete cycle of project, from conception to delivery to customers.
• Developed/implemented Linux Kernel based Packet driver, designed and ported existing Linux applications, debugged the ASICs; wrote ASIC workarounds.
• Drove the switch thru conformance testing and it has been certified as Infiniband compliant by the IBTA. Led the conformance testing at two IBTA plugfests. Also responsible for having the switch pass the “IBM Server.
• Member of a team investigating the next generation switches for 10G ethernet. Evaluating existing third party software vendors; L2 and L3 functionality.
• Target Processsor PPC405; Linux Target OS; C Language. Use of RPC; Gdb; CVS

Acton, MA

• Finalized requirements and then designed and implemented the Bellcore GR 253 compliant SONET clocking for the backbone ring. The implementation supports SSM messaging and ring clock recovery on failures as specified by.
• Designed and implemented the Port Manager which provided the management of all port configurations. The configurations are distributed to all cards in the ISTN node.
• Instrumental in defining the IPC communication for the ISTN switch as a part of the infrastructure software.
• Responsible for RIO (Dual Ring I/O) redundancy feature integration.
• Defined the requirements and the design of the 1:N redundancy feature for DS1 and DS3 interfaces.
• Designed the 1:1 DS1 redundancy feature.

Marlboro, MA

Littleton, MA