• Spearheaded the design and development of SDN appliance data path, specifically tailored for Azure’s advanced workloads which featured a sophisticated architecture incorporating multiple SmartNics (FPGAs).• Introduced and engineered a cross-driver module for detecting packet corruption and kernel memory leaks, effectively safeguarding over 500+ live production nodes from potential crashing and causing outages.• Orchestrated the development of a polling thread-based design that unified the control plane and SmartNIC driver, leading to real-time BGP session management with zero down time.• Served as a data path expert and on-call leader, providing guidance to team members, and effectively resolving critical production issues while maintaining SLA (Service Level Agreement).• Eliminated packet black hole by designing and interfacing kernel NIC change notification with SmartNIC driver.• Achieved serviceability for windows filtering driver and maintained zero down time by implementing synchronization-based vPort referencing and dereferencing mechanism that operates seamlessly even during active traffic.• Maintained automation test cases and telemetry all the features to improve debuggability.• Recognized as team’s quality expert for ensuring higher code standards and adherence to best practices through code reviews.• Injecting network endpoints into a SDN (Software Define Networking). U.S. Patent US11190406B1, issued Nov 30, 2021

Part of Azure Specialized Networking group where I developed and implemented SDN Datapath forwarding module to support specialized workloads.

• Extended overlay-tunnel infrastructure for GRE and VxLAN to support IPv6 protocol, point-to-point Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) overlay tunnels to use Tunnel Keepalive Mechanism enabling higher performance for routing protocols like BGP, OSPFv3 and IS-IS• Redesigned SNMP module to achieve multi-card SNMP trap synchronization to support high end chassis platforms• Remodeled management services to achieve high security and controlled access to networking using Access-lists• Designed and integrated A10 Networks CGN solution with Smart Services Routers (SSR) product line of Ericsson• Contributed in design and improvement of multiple L2/3 features working with cross-functional teams• Tested newly developed software through rigorous test methodology and automation infrastructure to ensure enough coverage and consistent results

• Involved in the development and performance improvement of Segment Routing feature in MPLS of IPOS • Receiving hands-on experience on the routing technologies which includes RSVP-TE and BGP

Computer Engineering core course called System Software gives a detailed working and development of compilers, operating systems,assemblers and linkersDuties: • Involved in research on Compilers and System Software• Assisting students by tutorials on confusing topics and clearing their doubts• Directing students in their course long Project• Setting-up and Grading Assignment, Quizzes and Exams for class