Sasitharan Ramanathan Email & Phone Number

San Jose

Santa Clara,Ca

Owned responsibility for building on demand test beds for sanity using virtual appliances.Driving System and scale testing of 200+ virtual nodes using Gigamon’s visibility fabric.Member of team building CI/CD pipeline for basic sanity using GitHub and Jenkin.Helped team migrate from using physical hardware to virtual nodes that enables rapid scale up

San Jose Ca

Automated Basic Cloud Sanity for Cisco Cloud Center product on AWS, AzureRM, Openstack and VMware platforms on various operating systems. Built hybrid cloud (VMware, AWS and Azure), to compare VM life cycle operations while using Inter Cloud Fabric to help customers migrate to appropriate cloud based on their work load. Led system, scale and performance testing of Cloud Networking and Services Group (CNSG). Built 64 hosts scale test environment using Cisco UCS B-Series servers to validate scale metrics.Increased scale limit from 64 modules to 256; port limits from 4K to 16K by nesting ESX over ESX that saved substantial costs for Business Unit.Built storage using NFS and NetApp for system and scale test. Created multiple storage networks and supported multiple teams to use remote storage.Consolidated performance testing of Nexus1000v by developing single test environment for multiple flavors of ESX (5.0 to 6.0), KVM (both RHEL and UBUNTU) using PowerCLI and tcl/tk. Integrated test suite with Jenkins and executed as part of nightly sanity. Automated, integrated solution sanity to validate various components of Nexus1000v products (Nexus1000v, VSG, PNSC and VXLAN GW) to identify any breakage in any combination and fix breakages sooner.

San Jose Ca

Member of startup (Rohati Systems) acquired by Cisco to integrate virtual firewall (VSG) to their virtual switch (Nexus1000v) .Owned responsibility for stress and performance testing of VSG using Spirent Test Center and Spirent Avalanche. Tested multiple features and automated using tcl/tk.

Sunnyvale, Ca

Part of Startup team that built 40G firewall from scratch. Responsible for functional, stress and performance of firewall functionalities. Built data centers using VMware platform.

Santa Clara

Onsite offshore coordination of Alteon Switched Firewall. Trained and built multiple teams to reduce onsite cost for Nortel without compromising quality. Functional testing of SSL VPN featuresBuilt stress and performance test beds to validate firewall performance.

Managed coordination of Nortel's SSL based VPN gateway with onsite and offshore teams.Supported offshore team building their labs and replicating the test beds to sustain. Stress and performance testing of Nortel’s Alteon Switched Firewall using Spirent

Chennai Area, India

Functional testing and bug fixing of Nortel's SSL VPN gateway .

Chennai Area, India

Functional and system test team member as part of multicast ( PIM-SM and DVMRP). automated system testing using tcl/tk