• One of the lead architects in designing Central On-Premise (COP), the next generation of Aruba’s network monitoring software• Designed and developed the patented pre-shared key based zero-touch provisioning solution to onboard access points and switches on COP• Lead engineer driving Kubernetes Ingress and Nginx enhancements on COP• Architected Sheriff – A Kubernetes Dashboard based debugging solution for COP• Successfully integrated the trusted platform module (TPM) based X509 certificate solution for secure onboarding of devices on COP• Successfully demonstrated the execution of COP Kubernetes pods and services on Azure Stack Hub, Google Anthos and Google Anthos BareMetal platforms• Successfully completed the deployment of COP storage using the distributed storage architecture of Ceph and Rook

• Architected and developed the flagship SaaS product – “Viceroy”• Cumulus is a Microsoft BizSpark, Nasscom 10000 startup and was in the Cohort 2 of Amplifi Accelerator• Successfully steered Viceroy to a positive cashflow MRR• Instrumental in obtaining Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) accreditation for Viceroy• Successfully invoiced 1000+ hours of usage by Viceroy customers• Created the business plan and pitched for a funding of INR 2.3 croresViceroy­ v1.0 – was a remote software delivery solution for the academia. Goal was to provide every engineering student a virtual machine in the cloud with all the software they required to graduate, with a pay-as-much-as-you-use model. v1.0a - An On-Premise appliance built using Ubuntu Linux with backend written in Python. Successfully piloted in RNS Institute of Technology. v1.0b - A cloud based solution, initially completely hosted on Microsoft Azure, and later moved to AWS.­ v2.0 – browser based virtual labs solution for e-learning portals, universities that offer distance education and enterprises that want to augment their courses with a hands-on lab. This one of a kind product uses advanced virtualization technologies and USB remote redirection to provide hands on labs for Vmware certification, Mobile Application development, Cloud Computing, Big Data and other Embedded Programming courses. Front end written in AngularJS, backend in C#/.Net, AWS as the cloud engine and Azure DBaaS as the backend database. Also, provides a remote desktop incorporating a custom hardware accelerated H264 streaming solution using nVIDIA Grid SDK for UI intensive CAD products. ­ v3.0 – a browser based online testing solution with virtual labs. The testing application is written in Java.

• Implemented the Secure Boot Feature for the ASR 9K switches

Nexus 7000 Platform• Currently involved in implementing the datapath for Vinci architecture in NxOS virtual machine.Application Control Engine (ACE)• Instrumental in conceiving and designing the virtual solution on ACE platforms.­ Product lead for virtualization as an infrastructure, using KVM hypervisor for UCS server based ACE product.­ Modified KVM hypervisor source code to fix “out of memory slots” error, when more than 8 devices were added in passthrough to a guest VM.• Involved in improving the ACE performance on Intel x86 platform using Intel VTune Amplifier XEVirtual Services Engine (VSE)• Lead architect for Virtual Services Engine, an Intel x86 based service card on Catalyst 6000 switch• Successfully ported virtual infrastructure based on ESXi 4.1 from Cisco ISR router platform, and was involved in migrating existing infrastructure to ESXi 5.0.• Customized the Intel Niantic Driver on ESXi 4.1 to include VSE specific changes.Application Visibility and Monitoring (AVM)• Designed and developed the processor datapath transport (PDT) functionality between Cavium Octeon and Intel Nehalem processors. • Instrumental in bringing up the Cavium Octeon NIC on AVM.• Integrated Nitrox libcrypto into OpenSSL stack.

• Designed and developed the Downloadable ACL (dACL) solution on CatOS.­ Designed the Bison grammar to parse the ACL statements.• Designed and developed the URL Filtering (URLF) feature on Catalyst 6000 PISA.­ Designed and developed the Inter Processor Communication Protocol (IPCP) over PCI between IOS running on Sibyte processor and QNX component running on XScale.• Designed and developed the Virtual Fragmentation and Reassembly (VFR) feature on Cat6K PISA

• Core member of the team that developed the world’s 1st UPnP based wireless multimedia receiver

Authored the verification test cases for the DVD+RW recorders from Philips