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India

Leading a team of Large engineers across different Microsoftdevelopment sites in the UK, US, and India for the past 3+ yearsResponsible for multiple services, such as Azure Private 5G core, Packet Coreand several 1P/3P orchestration services.Defining the architecture and roadmap of the enterprise solution of AzureOperator.Hired 200+ engineers at various locations of Microsoft IDC to establishthe operators team in IndiaPart of the Microsoft IDC Leadership Team for… Show more Leading a team of Large engineers across different Microsoftdevelopment sites in the UK, US, and India for the past 3+ yearsResponsible for multiple services, such as Azure Private 5G core, Packet Coreand several 1P/3P orchestration services.Defining the architecture and roadmap of the enterprise solution of AzureOperator.Hired 200+ engineers at various locations of Microsoft IDC to establishthe operators team in IndiaPart of the Microsoft IDC Leadership Team for Noida and the MicrosoftSMT IDC Site lead for Bangalore & NoidaServes as security Champ of Azure for operator's Packet core division andpart of Microsoft IDC security champs Show less

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India

Leading a team of Large engineers across different Microsoftdevelopment sites in the UK, US, and India for the past 3+ yearsResponsible for multiple services, such as Azure Private 5G core, Packet Coreand several 1P/3P orchestration services.Defining the architecture and roadmap of the enterprise solution of AzureOperator.Hired 200+ engineers at various locations of Microsoft IDC to establishthe operators team in IndiaPart of the Microsoft IDC Leadership Team for… Show more Leading a team of Large engineers across different Microsoftdevelopment sites in the UK, US, and India for the past 3+ yearsResponsible for multiple services, such as Azure Private 5G core, Packet Coreand several 1P/3P orchestration services.Defining the architecture and roadmap of the enterprise solution of AzureOperator.Hired 200+ engineers at various locations of Microsoft IDC to establishthe operators team in IndiaPart of the Microsoft IDC Leadership Team for Noida and the MicrosoftSMT IDC Site lead for Bangalore & NoidaServes as security Champ of Azure for operator's Packet core division andpart of Microsoft IDC security champs Show less

Redmond, Washington, United States

I was the Group Engineering Manager of Azure VPN services, and Ioversaw various VPN products such as Virtual Network Gateway, UserVPN, Virtual WAN, Consumer VPN, NaaS, and Azure VPN clientsI led one of the largest and most impactful Azure services, generatinghundreds of millions of dollars in revenueI managed a team of 29+ engineers and mentored 10+ more at a remotelocationI ensured that our cloud network service was reliable and performant,providing VPN… Show more I was the Group Engineering Manager of Azure VPN services, and Ioversaw various VPN products such as Virtual Network Gateway, UserVPN, Virtual WAN, Consumer VPN, NaaS, and Azure VPN clientsI led one of the largest and most impactful Azure services, generatinghundreds of millions of dollars in revenueI managed a team of 29+ engineers and mentored 10+ more at a remotelocationI ensured that our cloud network service was reliable and performant,providing VPN solutions to Azure customers at a large scaleI innovated many platform solutions, such as Azure software stack forIPSEC, IKE, OpenVPN, SSTP, IPSEC Live Migration, Virtual WAN, OpenVPNclients, IPSEC over Express-route, EXP offload, NAT support, routemanagement, SDWAN, traffic control, IPSLA, VPN at Edge, DTLS VPN,Wireguard, and moreI architected multitenancy for VPN solutions, ensuring strong isolation andhigh availabilityI designed enhancements to route propagation algorithms, improvingdatapath SLA from minutes to millisecondsI architected cloud hybrid integrations with multiple solutions such as VPN,SDWAN, Firewall, and ExpressRouteI collaborated with the industry for the standard SDWAN integration withAzure WANI designed and delivered a large-scale solution for the scalability andreliability of Azure Hybrid control pathI worked closely with many large-scale Azure customers and internalorganizations, such as M365 office, Bing, Azure Core, Azure Identity,Azure Orbital, Affirmed Networks, MetaSwitch, Azure Dedicated, andmore Show less

Redmond, Wa

I was the architect of Windows container networking and designed itsnetwork isolationI delivered the Host Network Service (HNS) for Windows, which handlescontainer networking orchestration and virtualization managementI integrated Windows with Docker containers natively and collaboratedwith Docker Networking Engineering teamsDesigned container networking solutions for Docker Swarm with a softwareload balancer and Innovated Windows container network designs such… Show more I was the architect of Windows container networking and designed itsnetwork isolationI delivered the Host Network Service (HNS) for Windows, which handlescontainer networking orchestration and virtualization managementI integrated Windows with Docker containers natively and collaboratedwith Docker Networking Engineering teamsDesigned container networking solutions for Docker Swarm with a softwareload balancer and Innovated Windows container network designs such asL2Bridge, L2Tunnel and Overlay NetworksI designed and integrated Windows container networking for Kubernetesand the Windows SDN host agentI designed and developed custom encapsulation and load balancingsolutions for SDNI designed and delivered Windows SET for network interface redundancyfor virtualizationI was the architect and developer of RDMAv1 and RDMAv2 for WindowsI designed networking for WDAG and innovated its Hyper-V basedcontainer integration for higher securityI integrated the Windows Network Controller with Azure Stack Hub anddesigned its scale and HA solution for networkingI added many functionalities for Virtual Switch in Windows over Hyper-Vsuch as LBFO, SRIOV, VFP, etcWorked on all core networking areas such as TCPIP, Transport Framinglayer, NDIS, HTTP, Winhttp/Webio, DNS, DHCP, WFP, NLA, RRAS,DirectAccess, and more.Reduced operational costs by 15% through optimization of corenetworking systems.Core founding member of IPv6 Adoption and IPV6 transition technologiesin WindowsLed team resolving 100+ networking security issuesRedesigned multicastprocessing for TCPIP stack performance.Boosted Windows Edge load time by double digits Show less

India

I was the architect of Windows container networking and designed itsnetwork isolationI delivered the Host Network Service (HNS) for Windows, which handlescontainer networking orchestration and virtualization managementI integrated Windows with Docker containers natively and collaboratedwith Docker Networking Engineering teamsDesigned container networking solutions for Docker Swarm with a softwareload balancer and Innovated Windows container network designs such… Show more I was the architect of Windows container networking and designed itsnetwork isolationI delivered the Host Network Service (HNS) for Windows, which handlescontainer networking orchestration and virtualization managementI integrated Windows with Docker containers natively and collaboratedwith Docker Networking Engineering teamsDesigned container networking solutions for Docker Swarm with a softwareload balancer and Innovated Windows container network designs such asL2Bridge, L2Tunnel and Overlay NetworksI designed and integrated Windows container networking for Kubernetesand the Windows SDN host agentI designed and developed custom encapsulation and load balancingsolutions for SDNI designed and delivered Windows SET for network interface redundancyfor virtualizationI was the architect and developer of RDMAv1 and RDMAv2 for WindowsI designed networking for WDAG and innovated its Hyper-V basedcontainer integration for higher securityI integrated the Windows Network Controller with Azure Stack Hub anddesigned its scale and HA solution for networkingI added many functionalities for Virtual Switch in Windows over Hyper-Vsuch as LBFO, SRIOV, VFP, etcWorked on all core networking areas such as TCPIP, Transport Framinglayer, NDIS, HTTP, Winhttp/Webio, DNS, DHCP, WFP, NLA, RRAS,DirectAccess, and more.Reduced operational costs by 15% through optimization of corenetworking systems.Core founding member of IPv6 Adoption and IPV6 transition technologiesin WindowsLed team resolving 100+ networking security issuesRedesigned multicastprocessing for TCPIP stack performance.Boosted Windows Edge load time by double digits Show less

Gurgaon, India

Worked on Soft switch developed at Aricent for CISCO customers.Worked on protocol enhancements over SS7, SIP etc.Integrated Diameter protocol for the management plan of soft switch.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science

Bachelor Of Engineering - Computer Science, Computer Science