Experience

WiteSand

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director Of System Test, Solution Engineering

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  - Leading customer PoCs from understanding customer requirements, defining product feature requests, working with closely in executing successful completion of PoCs. - Leading devops for AWS hosted multi-tenant cloud native SAAS platform for ongoing upgrade cycles, monitoring. This SAAS platform offered discovering, provisioning, monitoring and providing network access control solution from cloud to the enterprise campus networks. - Leading system, solution tests - Developed initial automation framework and led the team to develop automated test suite and maintain - Strong Expertise in AWS, AKS, K8s, Distributed systems, RBAC - Filed 5 patent applications (2 on edgepod, 3 on Cloud NAC). Key contributor in desiigning horizontally scalable multi-tenant aware edgepod solution which was a key innovation for the company. Show less


Pensando Systems
• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee
• MTS

  • Apr 2018 - Sep 2019


Innovium Inc.

• Computer Hardware
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director of Software Quality Assurance

  • Oct 2016 - Mar 2018

  Led SDK testing and test automation efforts with data driven automation to test various feature combinations optimal way. Led SDK testing and test automation efforts with data driven automation to test various feature combinations optimal way.



Cisco/Insieme

• Principal Engineer

  • Nov 2012 - Oct 2016

  • Joined as one of the early QA engineers & qualified initial platform features (Line card/Fabric Card/Supervisor Card/System controller card & FPGAs) single handedly until FCS • Led platform QA team • Built automation framework based on python [First python based automation framework in Cisco] • Developed inhouse traffic generator (built on top of scapy packet generator) & integrated with Zebra for protocol emulation to reduce traffic generator expenses as well as able to emulate scenarios not possible with commercial vendor solutions. • Filed several patents on various aspects of networking and software defined networking controllers. • Debugged many live customer network issues, isolated problems to configuration, hardware, user error and real software/hardware bugs and came up with workarounds to keep the network impact to be minimal. • Led major software and hardware releases involving cross functional team (product management, software, hardware, ASIC) with high quality in record time. • Led testing effort for the complex ISSU (in service software upgrade) for the Nexus 9000 platform. Show less



Aruba Wireless Networks

• Sr QA Manager

  • Apr 2008 - Nov 2012

  Leading Access point quality assurance group across Sunnyvale & India R&D centres Qualified Aruba's first generation 11N access points to latest 3 stream access points. Qualifying access points from hardware perspective to standard software features as well as innoative Aruba specific proprietary feature Driving interoperability testing of different client mix involving different NICs, OS, supplicants Driving RF characterization and solution tests for different deployment models Driving Automationg using TCL/Expect based automation infrastructure Driving industry standard certification testing with WiFi alliance Experience testing Indoor, Outdoor, Mesh, Intrusion detection, Spectrum analysis. Worked with Technical Marketing, Software/Hardware engieers and product management to come up with competitive differentiators Driving serviceability/manageability enhancements in the product Implementing lightweight efficient processes to deliver high quality products timely manner Working with TAC and at times directly customers to reproduce field reported bugs in house and implemented preventive methods for test coverage improvement Show less



Aruba Networks

• Staff Engineer

  • Jan 2006 - Mar 2008

  - Joined Aruba India operation's founding engineer & helped jump starting India operations. - Took initial transfer of information from US team on products & used that to mentor local team members to build a high caliber team in short time - Relocated to US in Jan 2007 & led qualification of Aruba's then high scale next generation flagship controller platforms - Joined Aruba India operation's founding engineer & helped jump starting India operations. - Took initial transfer of information from US team on products & used that to mentor local team members to build a high caliber team in short time - Relocated to US in Jan 2007 & led qualification of Aruba's then high scale next generation flagship controller platforms



Andiamo/Cisco Systems

• Software Engineer III

  • 2003 - 2006

  Joined Andiamo India as a QA engineer & Cisco acquired Andiamo which became Cisco's data center business unit. Validating Cisco's SANOS features for different software releases Dynamic port VSAN membership Inter-VSAN routing. Zoning Name Server Validated x-bar fabric of Cisco's next generation SAN switch platforms. Joined Andiamo India as a QA engineer & Cisco acquired Andiamo which became Cisco's data center business unit. Validating Cisco's SANOS features for different software releases Dynamic port VSAN membership Inter-VSAN routing. Zoning Name Server Validated x-bar fabric of Cisco's next generation SAN switch platforms.



Hcl Technologies Limited

• China
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Lead Engineer

  • 2000 - 2003

  Worked in validating Cisco's Mobile gateway platforms (PDSN, GGSN) Automated test cases using TCL/Expect based infrastructure Developed system, scalability & performance test plans Worked in validating Cisco's Mobile gateway platforms (PDSN, GGSN) Automated test cases using TCL/Expect based infrastructure Developed system, scalability & performance test plans