I am an Information Technology graduate from Madras University, India about 15 years of experience in design, development, testing and automation of solutions for networking and communication industry.I have broad expertise in multiple technologies including Ethernet Switching and Routing, Optical Transport Network, Software Defined Networking (SDN), Cloud Computing and Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). I have made technical contributions to various open source community projects like ODL, OPNFV etc., and Industry specification groups like IETF, OpenCloud Connect etc., primarily on SDN and NFV. I am the lead author of RFCs 8455 & 8456 that defines the benchmarking standards for SDN controller in IETF I lead the demonstrations of various POCs in SDN/NFV involving OpenMANO (part of ETSI OSM), ODL and OpenStack components to customers/prospects. I have a good experience in orchestration of network services from IT/OSS across different domains and vendor solutions utilizing the leading SDN Service Orchestrator solutions and SDN controllers.In summary, through various roles and responsibilities, I have gained wider experience in * Solution Design and Development* Technology Evangelism * Customer Interactions and Management* Agile and Waterfall Project Execution * Team/People ManagementSpecialties: * Cloud Computing (Services, Deployments and Orchestration)* DevOps* Server and Network Virtualization* Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)* Software Defined Networking (SDN)* Data Networking (Switching and Routing)* Broadband Access* IT/OSS