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California, United States

Redmond, Washington, US

Building the world's largest Supercomputers!

Redmond, Washington, US

Austin, Texas, US

Austin, Texas, US

Berkeley, CA, US

San Jose, CA, US

Sunnyvale, CA, US

• Responsible for all aspects of engineering for Datacenters, Networking, Compute, Storage and Hardware. Managed a global team of 200+ engineersbetween the US and Asia and a P&L of > $1B. Led several software development.
• Grew compute footprint from 12K cores to +4M coresExpanded datacenter footprint from 2MW to 100MW
• Built a global network of 35 POP’s and 3,000+ peering connections which improved LinkedIn’s site speed in emerging markets by 20%
• Scaled the infrastructure engineering organization from 30 to 200+ engineers (Architects, SRE)
• 24x7x365 infrastructure availability for LinkedIn.com
• Increased investments in software development to eliminate toil and reduce operating expenditures

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Designing future infrastructure solutions that enables LinkedIn to scale scale at a new level in the following key areas:- Datacenters- Networks- Compute- Grid/Hadoop

Sunnyvale, CA, US

Responsible for managing a team of stellar Network Architects and Engineers. My primary responsibilities are:- Overall LinkedIn Network Architecture and Strategy- Managing day to day engineering and operations teams- Global MPLS backbone engineering- Global Peering and Interconnection strategy- Global Datacenter Networks and POP's- IPv6 strategy.

Frankfurt, DE

Advisory Board

San Francisco, US

Supporting SFBAY ISOC efforts.

San Francisco, US

Co-founded the SF Bay area Internet Society chapter that functions under the umbrella of Internet Society (ISOC). Grew membership from initial 30 members to 200 in the first year. Raised funding to host a conference on Internet Trust May 2010 and community grants for Internet development. Helped put together an IPv6 WG and collaborated with hosting.

• Joined the company during initial round of funding and amongst the first 10 employees. Key responsibilities and accomplishments:
• Providing strategic direction for datacenter hosting at the early stage of a SaaS product.
• Design and implementation of redundant network and server farm infrastructure in multiple locations.
• Design and implementation of BGP/iBGP and OSPF networks for high availability, AS 13390.
• Design and development of monitoring tools for network and server infrastructure.
• Setting up offshore network monitoring center in Fiji Islands. Including managing a 1week training boot camp.

• Built and managed the applications engineering group as part of the Taosecure and Procera merger. Worked with the CTO to help define the technology roadmap of Procera and collaborated with product marketing team to.
• Responsible for the implementation and delivery of the following products:
• IM Executive, a Linux based appliance, which sniffs a network for instant message communication and stores it in a database for compliance purposes. The appliance was designed as a layer 2 bridge with an application.
• AAD (Automatic Anomaly detection), this was a product designed in collaboration with Portland State University. The product’s focus was to detect worms and botnets. The original code was monolithic so we expanded the.

Designed and developed intrusion detection and prevention technology called StealthResponse ™. The network security appliance sits as a layer 2 device capable of detecting sophisticated attacks using a hybrid approach of signature and protocol anomaly method. The product is also designed as an active intrusion detection device that can probe for DoS.

San Jose, California, US

• Designed infrastructure for the WebEx MediaTone™ network. Played a key role in the early development phase of the company with 30 employees and growth to 1000+ employees. Instrumental in the architecture and.
• Data center and network design of facilities in San Jose, Denver, Virginia, London, Stockholm, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong.
• Design of public and private peering arrangements.
• Designed and implemented AS13445 globally.
• Design of circuits for Internet bandwidth as well as internal data center connectivity.
• BGP and EIGRP routing design. Also designed and implemented route reflectors.

• Integration of LAN/WAN technologies between SOPAC and UNDHA
• Design and implement a secure communication link between SOPAC and UNDHA.
• Implement security of the information system.
• Train technical staff to manage and maintain information system.
• Define future directions for information technology.

• Designed and implemented LAN/WAN technologies for pacific wide medical university. Led IT services for Fiji School of Medicine focused in the following areas:
• Design and implementation of campus wide network solution using routing and switching technologies. Design included implementing optic fiber technology to deliver audio and video content.
• Instrumental in the installation of the first south pacific telemedicine unit.
• Design and implementation of email solutions, FTP, web technologies.
• Design and implementation of security technologies.
• Design and implementation of Firewall, Squid Proxy, DNS.

• Provided technical assistance to FIGNET in the design and implementation of the first non-profit ISP in Fiji.
• Design and implementation of WAN technology using CISCO routers.
• Design and implementation of mail, www and ftp services on Linux and NT server farms.
• Design of efficient traffic shaping for low speed circuits.
• Establishing a 32K Internet link via a GOES-3 (PEACESAT) satellite.

Suva, FJ

Research assistant on University Research committee funded projects in the area of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing. Tutor in introduction to computer science courses.

Bs, Computer Science, Physics

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