Vaishak D. Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, United States

Seattle, Washington, United States

• Senior software engineer in f5 distributed cloud services team working on a Saas-based security, networking, and application management services that enable customers to deploy, secure, and operate their applications.
• Part of the cloud-config orchestration team responsible for the propagation of the configurations through the different layers in the system.
• Design and develop features that allow customers to provision and maintain different parts of their application and network infrastructure from a single centralized control plane console.
• Design, Implement, deploy, and test gRPC services deployed on a Kubernetes platform written in Go.
• Schema first design approach by developing contracts written in Protobufs.

Greater Seattle Area

• Senior software engineer in the NGINX API connectivity Manager team creating products to help customers manage their APIs from design to deprecation, apply governance, and quality of service through policies and help.
• Senior engineer in the API Connectivity Manager team responsible for cross-team collaboration, the architecture of the product, mentoring junior engineers, reviewing product road map as well as planning and.
• Worked closely with engineering managers in providing feedback, and reviews, identifying strengths, and interests of other teammates, and conducting interviews.
• Designed the domain model and declarative external APIs for a Linux-based nginx API Management solution product part of an overall nginx management suite.
• Created an external abstraction on nginx enabling easy consumption, adoption, and configuration of nginx as an API gateway or a reverse proxy.
• Developed REST APIs and services written in Go responsible for generating and deploying nginx configurations across the cluster of nginx instances.

Greater Boston Area

• Teaching assistant under Professor Robin Hillyard for the data structures and algorithms graduate-level course.
• Guided 60-80 graduate students through different algorithms and data structures assignments, concepts, and problems.
• Prepared and administered weekly quizzes for students on various topics discussed in class.
• Graded quizzes, assignments, and exams and gave relevant feedback on the work of the students.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Upgraded system OS from CentOS6 to CentOS7 and reconfigured AWS Elemental Server to run on CentOS7, optimizing the effort needed for teams to upgrade to CentOS7.
• Redesigned the AWS Elemental Server service layer, written in Ruby, to host its video transcoding media engine in a Docker container.
• Modified legacy architectures to create a container management system to start a Docker container to perform a video transcoding job and quit on job completion.
• Developed Ruby scripts to generate a command JSON from a command XML and provide it to Docker containers to start transcoding jobs.
• Orchestrated the AWS Elemental Server and Conductor File UI redesign with SASS and HTML5.
• Resolved Ruby and Ruby on Rails defects reducing the server team’s defect backlog.

Bangalore

• Developed a user interface for a web application based on a single-page architecture design in AngularJS.
• Resolved front-end HTML, JavaScript, and AngularJS defects. Fixed back-end Java defects and implemented enhancements.
• Facilitated QA support, collaborated in the timely triaging of end-user incidents, and provided middleware and data-power assistance in addition to an agile system of software development.
• Ensured productive daily scrum calls, sprint grooming and refinement meetings, and sprint retrospective calls.
• Mentored new resources on application workflows, use cases, and AngularJS.

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Worked with GMRT(Giant Meterwave Radio Telescopes) operated by the National Center for Radio Astrophysics measuring leakage signals between channels in a baseband system.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Management Information Systems, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering