Rajesh Perumal Email & Phone Number

Milpitas, California, United States

• Managerial contribution:
• Recruited, mentored, and retained a skilled dev team for firewall feature development, including AppFlow, GeoIP/Botnet, Dynamic External Objects, Decryption Policies, and networking features.
• Hands-on manager responsible of design, development, guidelines, and change requests.
• Managed and motivated a dispersed team, fostering collaboration.
• Collaborated with NSM team to enhance firewall traffic visualization and alerts.
• Led Gen6 SonicOS Hotfix release required for NSM2.3.5 as release manager, collaborating with stakeholders, PM, Program Manager, Dev, QA, and System/Perf Testing.Technical Contributions:

Milpitas, California, United States

• Managerial contribution:
• Played a pivotal role in establishing and nurturing the SonicOS development organization in Bangalore, working closely with the VP/GM of Sonicwall India. Helped in recruitment, refining the recruitment process.
• Established an optimal dev environment for the team by collaborating with SonicCore/SDK and IT teams. This initiative facilitated faster onboarding of new engineers with minimal effort, streamlining the overall.
• Led a team of 6 engineers to successfully deliver on the Gen7 API dev project. Conducted daily scrum meetings, overseeing the progress of engineers and working with the API team to gather requirements. Proactively.
• SME for the Next-Gen Policy Engine/Unified Policy Engine, providing valuable insights and support to the SonicOS BLR QA team, and SonicOS PM team.Technical contribution:
• Designed and implemented Decryption Policies for Sonicwall's latest Firewalls, which operate on the Unified Policy Engine (UPE). This powerful feature grants user precise control over traffic subjected to.

Milpitas, California, United States

• Designed and implemented the IPFIX with extensions version 2 format to enhance the reporting capabilities of FW traffic to external data visualizers, such as Sonicwall Analytics. This resulted in richer reports and.
• Collaborated extensively with the GMS team and Analyzer team to facilitate the transition of the analyzer product to the cloud. This involved debugging on firewalls, network infrastructure, and.
• Containerized the Sonicwall internal collector as a separate Docker container running on Linux firewalls. This feature enables the storage of a larger set of Firewall Flow data that persists across reboots.
• Designed and developed infrastructure to support the development of Dynamic External Objects and Dynamic Botnets. This functionality allows users to specify external locations to configure the firewall, eliminating the.
• Mentored engineers in the team on the development of new features, including Custom Botnet, Custom Geo-IP, and Advanced Flow Server.

Santa Clara

• Developed infrastructure for cloud groups, enabling users to instantiate predefined groups with a single click, eliminating the need for manual configuration. Extended the implementation to support countries and.
• Maintained and enhanced the Geo-IP and Botnet modules within the Security Services suite of Sonicwall Firewalls.
• Maintained and enhanced the Appflow module, facilitating data visualization of traffic (connection/threat/URL) through the firewall.
• Implemented enhancements and bug fixes for IP Helper, Mac-IP Spoof, packet monitor, Active connections monitor, and FW ping features.
• Collaborated with external data collectors, such as Plixer Scrutinizer, to support Sonicwall's data reporting format, IPFIX with extensions.
• Delivered timely customer hotfixes.

• Designed and developed a Perl/C++ based tool to extract hardware module port list information from huge number of verilog files using Verilog PLIs.
• Designed, developed and reorganised APIs for accessing transceiver analog parameters across multiple families and also making them data driven.
• Develop and maintain speed grade legality checks for High speed serial interface ( HSSI ) transceivers.
• Coordinate transceiver speed grade information across multiple departments enabling remarkable turnaround time for time critical customer requests.
• Develop, maintain and test the transceiver and pin reporting functionality for the HSSI transceivers.
• Static Analysis tool - Coverity Prevent warnings were handled for the entire department.

Huntsville, Alabama, United States

• Collaborated with developers on feature requirements, designed CLI commands, and represented the switch module team in the CLI committee to ensure new commands met requirements and standards.
• Automated CLI database verification that ensured clean daily builds and trained an offshore team to maintain the process.
• Designed and implemented the CLI, SNMP, and database interface to support the Node Information Advertisement feature.
• Implemented port mirroring features across Gigabit-Ethernet ports on Broadcom (BCM) based switches, facilitating efficient data flow debugging. Validated register values and monitored mirrored traffic with Wireshark to.
• Developed the Manual Switch Alarm (SNMP) to distinguish between automatic card switching and user-initiated actions, enhancing system monitoring capabilities.

• Worked for the Clemson Distance Education team.
• Web Development and maintenance for the upstate Youthbuild website.
• Assisted faculty in creating Podcasts for teaching.
• Evaluation of transcription softwares.

Practical training in Databases, accounting processes such as creating ledgers, submitting and documenting bills, receipts.

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