Gunjan Patel
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Vishal Mehta
It was my privilege to work with Gunjan in Server Virtualization Customer Support Engineering Team at Cisco. Gunjan ramped up on those technologies, in which he had minimal experience, at very fast pace and in short time he established himself as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in field of Virtualization and Networking. He was well respected by Business-Unit and Technical Leadership teams. He always assisted other team members in solving their escalated cases even if he had to skip lunch or stay late at work. He helped team members in understanding complex technologies by providing trainings on bi-weekly basis. Gunjan created knowledge-based articles on troubleshooting which are still used by TAC engineers around the globe and by the field. Gunjan went extra-mile to solve Customer issues achieving topmost Customer Satisfaction score. There is never a dull moment with Gunjan, he keeps learning disruptive technologies and participating in hackathons. In all, Gunjan has amazing tech-savvy personality with down-to-earth attitude and an awesome team player.
Mat Lewit
I would give Gunjan my highest recommendation. He is a great person, extremely smart and hardworking (I don't think he sleeps), and a great teammate. If I were starting a company he would be one of the first people I would want on my team. I am convinced Gunjan would be successful at whatever job he worked at regardless of his experience. He is the type of person that wants to learn everything about what he is doing, and never cuts corners. A story that exemplifies this personality. We were discussing what he wanted to learn next in a meeting and he said he was interested in storage. I assumed this meant he was going to study up on it. Instead, he said he wanted to understand how SAN storage devices work, so he was building a storage device in his spare time (including programming it). He had this approach to everything new he wanted to learn. As a technical support engineer he came in and didn't just want to solve cases he wanted to understand how things worked, so he could think of ways to improve the product and be able to explain concepts to other employees and the customer. Gunjan never backed down from a challenge. He would always handle the hardest escalations without a complaint. He was excellent at talking to customers, always getting amazing customer praise for his above and beyond attitude. He was also an great teammate. He was an expert that people came to often, and he never tired of explaining concepts to people. Instead of getting annoyed that he was being asked the same questions he tried to figure out ways to explain it that might stick for the next time. Gunjan always wanted to share his knowledge with not only our team but the greater technical support organization. He created many very creative and fun trainings that he presented locally and globally. He always had time for questions. I am convinced Gunjan can do anything he wants to do, and do it at the highest level within a year's time. He is tireless. I can't imagine a scenario where you would not feel extremely fortunate having this talented individual working on your team.
Vishal Mehta
It was my privilege to work with Gunjan in Server Virtualization Customer Support Engineering Team at Cisco. Gunjan ramped up on those technologies, in which he had minimal experience, at very fast pace and in short time he established himself as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in field of Virtualization and Networking. He was well respected by Business-Unit and Technical Leadership teams. He always assisted other team members in solving their escalated cases even if he had to skip lunch or stay late at work. He helped team members in understanding complex technologies by providing trainings on bi-weekly basis. Gunjan created knowledge-based articles on troubleshooting which are still used by TAC engineers around the globe and by the field. Gunjan went extra-mile to solve Customer issues achieving topmost Customer Satisfaction score. There is never a dull moment with Gunjan, he keeps learning disruptive technologies and participating in hackathons. In all, Gunjan has amazing tech-savvy personality with down-to-earth attitude and an awesome team player.
Mat Lewit
I would give Gunjan my highest recommendation. He is a great person, extremely smart and hardworking (I don't think he sleeps), and a great teammate. If I were starting a company he would be one of the first people I would want on my team. I am convinced Gunjan would be successful at whatever job he worked at regardless of his experience. He is the type of person that wants to learn everything about what he is doing, and never cuts corners. A story that exemplifies this personality. We were discussing what he wanted to learn next in a meeting and he said he was interested in storage. I assumed this meant he was going to study up on it. Instead, he said he wanted to understand how SAN storage devices work, so he was building a storage device in his spare time (including programming it). He had this approach to everything new he wanted to learn. As a technical support engineer he came in and didn't just want to solve cases he wanted to understand how things worked, so he could think of ways to improve the product and be able to explain concepts to other employees and the customer. Gunjan never backed down from a challenge. He would always handle the hardest escalations without a complaint. He was excellent at talking to customers, always getting amazing customer praise for his above and beyond attitude. He was also an great teammate. He was an expert that people came to often, and he never tired of explaining concepts to people. Instead of getting annoyed that he was being asked the same questions he tried to figure out ways to explain it that might stick for the next time. Gunjan always wanted to share his knowledge with not only our team but the greater technical support organization. He created many very creative and fun trainings that he presented locally and globally. He always had time for questions. I am convinced Gunjan can do anything he wants to do, and do it at the highest level within a year's time. He is tireless. I can't imagine a scenario where you would not feel extremely fortunate having this talented individual working on your team.
Vishal Mehta
It was my privilege to work with Gunjan in Server Virtualization Customer Support Engineering Team at Cisco. Gunjan ramped up on those technologies, in which he had minimal experience, at very fast pace and in short time he established himself as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in field of Virtualization and Networking. He was well respected by Business-Unit and Technical Leadership teams. He always assisted other team members in solving their escalated cases even if he had to skip lunch or stay late at work. He helped team members in understanding complex technologies by providing trainings on bi-weekly basis. Gunjan created knowledge-based articles on troubleshooting which are still used by TAC engineers around the globe and by the field. Gunjan went extra-mile to solve Customer issues achieving topmost Customer Satisfaction score. There is never a dull moment with Gunjan, he keeps learning disruptive technologies and participating in hackathons. In all, Gunjan has amazing tech-savvy personality with down-to-earth attitude and an awesome team player.
Mat Lewit
I would give Gunjan my highest recommendation. He is a great person, extremely smart and hardworking (I don't think he sleeps), and a great teammate. If I were starting a company he would be one of the first people I would want on my team. I am convinced Gunjan would be successful at whatever job he worked at regardless of his experience. He is the type of person that wants to learn everything about what he is doing, and never cuts corners. A story that exemplifies this personality. We were discussing what he wanted to learn next in a meeting and he said he was interested in storage. I assumed this meant he was going to study up on it. Instead, he said he wanted to understand how SAN storage devices work, so he was building a storage device in his spare time (including programming it). He had this approach to everything new he wanted to learn. As a technical support engineer he came in and didn't just want to solve cases he wanted to understand how things worked, so he could think of ways to improve the product and be able to explain concepts to other employees and the customer. Gunjan never backed down from a challenge. He would always handle the hardest escalations without a complaint. He was excellent at talking to customers, always getting amazing customer praise for his above and beyond attitude. He was also an great teammate. He was an expert that people came to often, and he never tired of explaining concepts to people. Instead of getting annoyed that he was being asked the same questions he tried to figure out ways to explain it that might stick for the next time. Gunjan always wanted to share his knowledge with not only our team but the greater technical support organization. He created many very creative and fun trainings that he presented locally and globally. He always had time for questions. I am convinced Gunjan can do anything he wants to do, and do it at the highest level within a year's time. He is tireless. I can't imagine a scenario where you would not feel extremely fortunate having this talented individual working on your team.
Vishal Mehta
It was my privilege to work with Gunjan in Server Virtualization Customer Support Engineering Team at Cisco. Gunjan ramped up on those technologies, in which he had minimal experience, at very fast pace and in short time he established himself as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in field of Virtualization and Networking. He was well respected by Business-Unit and Technical Leadership teams. He always assisted other team members in solving their escalated cases even if he had to skip lunch or stay late at work. He helped team members in understanding complex technologies by providing trainings on bi-weekly basis. Gunjan created knowledge-based articles on troubleshooting which are still used by TAC engineers around the globe and by the field. Gunjan went extra-mile to solve Customer issues achieving topmost Customer Satisfaction score. There is never a dull moment with Gunjan, he keeps learning disruptive technologies and participating in hackathons. In all, Gunjan has amazing tech-savvy personality with down-to-earth attitude and an awesome team player.
Mat Lewit
I would give Gunjan my highest recommendation. He is a great person, extremely smart and hardworking (I don't think he sleeps), and a great teammate. If I were starting a company he would be one of the first people I would want on my team. I am convinced Gunjan would be successful at whatever job he worked at regardless of his experience. He is the type of person that wants to learn everything about what he is doing, and never cuts corners. A story that exemplifies this personality. We were discussing what he wanted to learn next in a meeting and he said he was interested in storage. I assumed this meant he was going to study up on it. Instead, he said he wanted to understand how SAN storage devices work, so he was building a storage device in his spare time (including programming it). He had this approach to everything new he wanted to learn. As a technical support engineer he came in and didn't just want to solve cases he wanted to understand how things worked, so he could think of ways to improve the product and be able to explain concepts to other employees and the customer. Gunjan never backed down from a challenge. He would always handle the hardest escalations without a complaint. He was excellent at talking to customers, always getting amazing customer praise for his above and beyond attitude. He was also an great teammate. He was an expert that people came to often, and he never tired of explaining concepts to people. Instead of getting annoyed that he was being asked the same questions he tried to figure out ways to explain it that might stick for the next time. Gunjan always wanted to share his knowledge with not only our team but the greater technical support organization. He created many very creative and fun trainings that he presented locally and globally. He always had time for questions. I am convinced Gunjan can do anything he wants to do, and do it at the highest level within a year's time. He is tireless. I can't imagine a scenario where you would not feel extremely fortunate having this talented individual working on your team.
Credentials
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Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Dec, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)Nov, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Learning Google Cloud Security
LinkedInJul, 2021- Oct, 2024 -
Certified Kubernetes Application Developer
The Linux FoundationJan, 2020- Oct, 2024
Experience
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San Francisco Bay University
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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100 - 200 Employee
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Board Member
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Nov 2022 - Present
Member of the Board of Directors for San Francisco Bay University (non-profit). Chairman of Academic Affairs Committee. SFBU is a premier WASC/WSCUC-accredited, nonprofit university located in the San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley. Member of the Board of Directors for San Francisco Bay University (non-profit). Chairman of Academic Affairs Committee. SFBU is a premier WASC/WSCUC-accredited, nonprofit university located in the San Francisco Bay Area/Silicon Valley.
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Palo Alto Networks
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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700 & Above Employee
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Sr. Manager, Cloud Architecture
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May 2022 - Present
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Principal Cloud Architect
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Jul 2018 - May 2022
Cloud Architect working on containers, Kubernetes, and other cloud technologies and security.
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Tigera
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
• Core Developer for Project Calico - open source container/cloud networking and security project for Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos ( https://github.com/projectcalico ) written mostly in Go and some Python • Work on CNI, libcalico-go, calicoctl, various orchestrator integrations such as Kubernetes, rkt, Docker • Core Developer for Project Calico - open source container/cloud networking and security project for Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos ( https://github.com/projectcalico ) written mostly in Go and some Python • Work on CNI, libcalico-go, calicoctl, various orchestrator integrations such as Kubernetes, rkt, Docker
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Project Calico
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United States
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Computer Networking Products
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Aug 2016 - Jul 2018
• Core Developer for Project Calico - open source container/cloud networking and security project for Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos ( https://github.com/projectcalico ) written mostly in Go and some Python • Work on CNI, libcalico-go, calicoctl, various orchestrator integrations such as Kubernetes, rkt, Docker • Core Developer for Project Calico - open source container/cloud networking and security project for Kubernetes, Docker, Mesos ( https://github.com/projectcalico ) written mostly in Go and some Python • Work on CNI, libcalico-go, calicoctl, various orchestrator integrations such as Kubernetes, rkt, Docker
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Ciena
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United States
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Telecommunications
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700 & Above Employee
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Software Engineer
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Aug 2014 - Aug 2016
• Working for the Blue Planet CTO's team developing container orchestration/management platform to deploy and manage NFV containers based on open source container orchestration tools • The PoC involves self-healing, automated, auto scaling system for containers with Docker, etcd, Kubernetes, Kafka, Jenkins, Confd, Nginx, etc. and ONOS SDN (Software Defined Networking) controller to manage networking portion with white-box switches running Open Network Linux • Work involves coding together many different open source off-the-shelf components, building tools, microservices, interfaces, and contributing back to the projects » Tools: Go, Java, Python, Docker, compose/swarm, Kubernetes, Kafka, etcd, Confd, Nginx, HAProxy, ONOS, XOS, Jenkins, Ansible, ONL • Before joining the CTO team, developed Ciena's SDN Platform based on OpenDaylight controller. Contributed open source code back to the community (Linux Foundation) for the Discovery/DIDM project • Team Lead and Committer for the DIDM/Discovery project. Contributed Java code, organized team meetings, stand-ups, presentations, documentation for the releases, etc. » Tools: Java, Python, YANG modeling, Docker, Vagrant, ELK stack, Maven, Karaf, REST/RPC/Notification framework, Mininet • Achievements: Co-organizer of the Bay Area Opendaylight meetup group /w 400+ members; got elected as the Project Lead for Discovery/DIDM by contributors from HP, CNLabs and Ciena within a few months of joining the project; presented at the OpenDaylight Summit 2015, Santa Clara Show less
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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TAC Engineer, Datacenter Networking Server Virtualization
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Jul 2012 - Aug 2014
• Started as a college new hire, learned networking products well in 4 months and became Team Escalation for Nexus 1000v • Soon, picked up all the datacenter virtualization technologies including VMware, Cisco networking, Storage, and UCS • Subject Matter Expert and Team Escalation for Nexus 1000v distributed hypervisor switch. Help other support engineers with technical escalations on Nexus 1000v, UCS, VMware networking. Responsible for filing bugs and enhancement requests to enhance the code • Provide trainings to the global and local teams on architectural details and troubleshooting of Nexus 1000v and UCS system networking » Tools: Hands-on {vSphere/ESXi, Hyper-V, Cisco networking, UCS-B/C servers, NetApp/EMC storage (iSCSI, FC, NFS), VMware DVS, Nexus 1000v, performance, Wireshark, root cause analysis, L2/L3 troubleshooting, VXLAN} architecture, troubleshooting & setup • Achievements: Received 5 CAP awards, and 13 peer recognition awards in a year; average 5/5 customer satisfaction with most number of responses; started team tech-talks; San Jose site winner at Cisco ONS Hackathon (Edge Router with OpenDaylight SDN), and runner-up at Cisco Pi-athlon (Pocket Switch: RaspberryPi based mini SDN controller to control and troubleshoot switches on the go); Cisco Live speaker, and Cisco trainings instructor (UCS/Virtualization bootcamp); organizer for Cisco partners SDN Hackathon with partners organization CTO Show less
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San Francisco Bay University
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United States
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Education Administration Programs
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100 - 200 Employee
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TA & Lab Instructor: Wireless Communication and Signals & Systems
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Apr 2011 - May 2013
• In addition to teaching lab sessions and TA hours, I also volunteered online TA hours at night time for working students and special weekend sessions for students who wanted to do extra projects or wanted to learn/discuss things more in detail EE450: Signal & Systems class/lab (April 2011 - Dec 2011): • Covered concepts such as, LTI systems, Fourier theory, FS, FT, DFT, FFT , FIR/IIR filter design, Z-transform, Laplace transform, Bode plots, finding poles and zeros, frequency and phase response of a system, impulse and step response of a system, and implementation of most of these concepts in MATLAB/Simulink lab. Filter design and circuit implementation using passive components in the lab EE509: Mobile and Wireless Communication class/lab (Jan 2012 - May 2013): • Taught wireless concepts such as, channel models, modulation/ demodulation techniques, fading, OFDM, I & Q modulation, channel encoding using convolutional encoders/ block encoders, Viterbi decoder, Trellis diagram, DSSS, FHSS, PN sequence. Implementation of end-to-end communication simulation model in MATLAB i.e. encoding, modulation (QPSK, 16-QAM, 64-QAM), IFFT, CP insertion, AWGN/Rayleigh/Rician channel, FFT, Viterbi decoder, BER calculation and plotting, etc. • TA for two ESL classes • Achievements: Got great feedback from students; started in-lab quick quizzes and micro-presentations to push students to learn by teaching; motivated many students to join IEEE and do extra projects outside class assignments; started E-Z English club for ESL class students to practice speaking English and got a local church to collaborate to teach and bring pizza for the students Show less
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Fry's Electronics
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Retail
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700 & Above Employee
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Part-time Sales Associate
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Feb 2011 - Jul 2012
• Worked part-time doing evening/weekend/closing shifts after school hours • Started as a store accessory, moving things around and helping customers pick out circuit parts and help out with circuit design for their projects • Later decided to step out of my comfort zone and became a Sales Associate, selling routers, switches, security systems, motherboards, hard drives, and other electronic components • Did some motherboard functional testing for fun, 1 hour a week • Achievements: learned to communicate well with people (ultimately helped me become more of an extrovert); got many written recommendations from customers for explaining technical details about the products/ helping out with circuit design on top of helping pick out parts Show less
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QIRIS
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Research Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Engineering Intern
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Sep 2011 - Apr 2012
• Socket programming in C and Python for communication between X2 Gateway and the server • System level simulation for the the ZigBee and sensors such as accelerometer, and gyroscope using Simulink and Matlab • Verilog code for CPU, UART Tx/Rx from ZigBee • Worked on Zigbee to Wi-Fi module i.e. XBee Wi-Fi IP-to-the-device, LR-WPAN IEEE 802.15.4 / IEEE 802.11b/g/n standard for the FallArm project • Achievements: Team Lead for the EE intern group. Weekly project presentation, demo and documentation. Suggestions and modifications of core design made the system more accurate Show less
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Education
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2013 - 2017
Santa Clara University
Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering -
Northwestern Polytechnic University
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical Engineering
