EXPERIENCE SUMMARY:

• Confidential is IT professional with more than 12 years of diversified experience in designing and implementing the networking and cloud infrastructure solutions, currently working as Lead Platform/DevOps Engineer, mainly responsible for design and deployment the micro - service aligned applications on hybrid cloud. Worked primarily in the Networking and Telecom arena. Technological fortes are Kubernetes, Docker, OpenStack, Python, AWS, Ansible, DevOps, Virtualization, C++, GoLang, Linux and Networking.
• Good experience in Agile product development methodologies and following best scrum practices.
• Good overall experience in migrating the monolithic applications to Kubernetes and docker based architectures.
• Strong experience supporting the DevOps in deploying the applications in cloud and bare metal servers in dev and prod environments.
• Strong experience in deploying the applications with Kubernetes, Docker, SaltStack and Ansible.
• Experience working with Linux namespaces and cgroups.
• Experience in evaluating and integrating the operations supporting tools such as ElasticSearch, Fluentd, Kibana, Grafana, Prometheus and KAFKA.
• Experience in designing and deploying the stateful and stateless applications using Kubernetes.
• Experience in Designing, Deploying and Administering the OpenStack Cloud.
• Experience in deploying the cloud application on AWS public cloud.
• Experience in Jenkins as part of CI and its integration with build and cluster environment.
• Good experience in OpenStack key components KeyStone, Neutron, Nova and its integration with third party vendors.
• Experience in designing the applications with Micro-Service architecture.
• Good experience in developing multi-threaded applications using C, C++, Python, GoLang, IPC and socket programming.
• Good experience in Linux Systems Programming.
• Good working knowledge of Linux IP Stack and Firewall.
• Good working knowledge of Networking protocols (ARP, IP, TCP, UDP, ICMP, IGMP, SIP, DNS).
• Good knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, MPLS and L3VPN).
• Good knowledge of VLAN (Virtual LAN), Link aggregation and Bonding.
• Good knowledge on data centre overlay tunnelling protocols GRE and VxLAN.
• Good knowledge of Virtual routing and forwarding (VRF), Access Control List (Netfilter), IP Forwarding, QoS, Rate Limiting.
• Good experience in implementing the distributed routing solutions.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Operating Systems: Linux

Programming Language: C, C++, Python, Go.

Cloud Technologies: Kubernetes, AWS, Docker, OpenStack, KVM, Keystone, Neutron, Nova, Ansible, OpenvSwitch, and Redis.

Networking Skills: TCP, UDP, IP, SIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, Socket Programming, Multithreading, Linux QT, 6Wind IP Stack, Netfilters, ACL, FireWall.

Database: LDAP, Redis.

Tools: GNU tools, IP tools, Jenkins, Jira, Git, Atlassian and SVN

Delivery models: Agile, Waterfall

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Lead Platform Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Deploying the Kubernetes and Docker platform on OpenStack and AWS clouds.
• Develop the Ansible playbooks and Salt-States for deploying the Kubernetes platform and applications.
• Kubernetes as deployment platform for life cycle management of docker containers and pods.
• Defining the Kubernetes deployment yaml files for management of applications.
• Define the Network architecture for Kubernetes and docker containers and internal and external communications.
• Deploying the state-ful and stateless applications using Gluster and OpenStack cloud storage options.
• Design the CI/CD pipeline in Jenkins and corresponding tools for Docker images.
• Hosting the EFK stack, KAFKA and other monitoring and statistics collecting clusters on AWS public cloud and integrating them with private Datacenter.
• Design and Implementation of upgrade and rollback of Micro-Services based applications based out of Kubernetes platform.
• Redis sentinel cluster as distributed key/value store for application configurations.
• Feature development and bug fixing of C++ backend modem software that runs as vCPE in Cloud environment.
• Redesign the legacy tripe play DATA, VOICE and VIDEO applications to align with NFV architecture in a way to run on OpenStack cloud.
• Auto-Scaling of cloud applications with OpenStack HOT template orchestration.
• Develop the Ansible play books for deploying the OpenStack, Kubernetes and cloud applications.

Solution Environment: Kubernetes, Docker, Python, OpenStack, C++, Go and Linux.

Tools: Ansible, GNU Tools.

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and Development of Residential gateway router and firewall.
• Contributed to OpenStack ML2 neutron plugin and Its integration with ADTN’s SDN controller with REST APIs.
• Migration of physical HW based test environment to OpenStack based virtual environment.
• Design, Deployment and Administration of OpenStack cloud as NFVI to support the NFV ready platform.
• Develop OpenStack Ansible scripts for deploying the OpenStack on multi node clusters.
• Porting of Network applications using linux bridges to OpenvSwitch.
• Using Docker containers as virtualization mechanism.
• Integrating the OpenvSwicth with GRE and VxLAN tunnel protocol.
• Feasibility study and PoCs to migrate the Confidential ’s GPON based physical residential router to vRG in OpenStack cloud.
• Configuring the OpenStack tenants and roles, also allocation of cloud resources to Tenant Project.

Solution Environment: C++, Python, OpenStack, Linux.

Tools: Ansible, Gdb, IXIA, Shenick.

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Evaluating BRCM GPON SoC capabilities using Reference design
• Fulfilling the gaps between the Confidential required features and BRCM supported features.
• Developing the time critical applications like IPTV under threading model of QNX.
• Tweaking the priorities for multiple Realtime threads.
• New feature development and bug fixing.
• Design and development of Inband management framework in BRCM SoC used for voice signalling
• Modified BRCM OMCI data models to interoperate BRCM ONT with Confidential OLT

Solution Environment: C, C++, Linux, BRCM SDK.

Tools: Gdb, IXIA, Shenick.

Confidential

Lead Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design and development new features on OPTI-6100 SONET as transport platform.
• Assign priorities to all the tasks/threads with respect to their functionality.
• Implementation FEFI feature in order to inform the remote faults CSF and RDI.
• Ported the Confidential Network Utils modules to Linux.

Solution Environment: AOS/QNX, Embedded Linux, C, C++

Confidential

Technical Architect

Responsibilities:

• Design and Implementation of following:
• Software system in Agile product development methodologies
• Developing the new extensions to Linux IP Stack with BSD Netgraph framework.
• Integrating the 6Wind IP stack with WindRiver Linux
• Implemented the ACL based QoS solution using Cavium Network Processor 56xx queuing discipline.
• BCN internal VLAN solutions as ethernet Interfaces
• Configurations for BCN main and extension switches
• BCN Switch Manager Daemon to update main and extension switch configuration with respect to IP configuration changes
• Link Aggregation Group for ATCA and BCN hardware environment
• Fetching of the Interface RTE Information from CLI
• Inter Task Communication framework design and implementation using Google’s open source Protobuf files
• Following best scrum practices

Solution Environment: C++, C, Boost, STL, WR Linux, RHEL linux, xml, TCP sockets, UDP sockets, NETLINK sockets

Tools: Gdb, Valgrind, Tcpdump, Netgraph, Google Protobuf

Confidential

Module Leader

Responsibilities:

• Requirement gathering and analysis of the same
• Multithreaded High Level and Low level Design for deduplication application
• Design and development of replication feature
• Resource management

Solution Environment: C, C++, Linux, gdb, valgrind