Over 20 years of professional experience in building products for data centers, service providers and enterprise customersData Centers:➢ Spent last 8 years solving data center problems➢ Part of the original team that built FWaaS in OpenStack➢ Built distributed/scale-out solutions for Firewall/NAT/IPSec/Load-balancers for data centers➢ Provided innovative SDN solutions for unique data center problems such as using physical appliances to protect virtual network traffic, Bare-metal Clouds➢ Also worked on standard L2/L3 SDN solutions involving VXLAN, MPLSoUDP, MPLSoGRE etc.Service Providers:➢ Worked on Service Delivery Gateway (SDG) that provided L4-L7 services using Juniper MX Routers;➢ Worked on carrier-grade NAT that was installed in tier-1 service providers➢ Implemented complex service-chains involving Firewall/NAT/IPSecWorked on Open Source projects:➢ Contributed code to Openstack Neutron project. Worked on FWaaS and VPNaaS projects ➢ Porting OpenSSL to MIPS/Hardware Acceleration➢ Hand-on experience with Docker, RYU Controller, OpenVSwitch, Contrail vRouter ➢ DPDK for packet processing on x86 ServersWorked on Security appliances:➢ Multi-tenant aware Firewalls with configurable security service chains➢ Distributed Firewall/NAT➢ Converting TLS/TCP to data streams for DPI➢ VPN Gateways, implementation of IKE and IPSec protocols➢ VOIP Security, WiFi / WLAN Switches, Converged Access Solution➢ Built multiple security appliances from scratch and took them through ICSA and FIPS 140-2 certificationsNetwork and Security accelerator:➢ Worked in two startups that built next generation Network & Security accelerators➢ Worked on all major chips from major vendors in last two decades - Cavium’s Octeon, Nitrox, Broadcom/RMI XLR/XLP, Intel IXP425, Broadcom, Marvell, FreescaleRecognitions at work and undergraduate level:➢ Platinum award for thought leadership on SDN solutions➢ Awards during hackathons, software competitions➢ Gold Medalist of graduating class at Delhi College of Engineering, B.E. Computer Engineering