Apr 2021 – Oct 2021 · 6 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

• Lead DellEMC's Data Protection platforms' (Networker, Avamar and Data Domain) Apps team.

Mar 2016 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead the end-2-end code coverage solution for IOS-XR. IOS-XR is a major OS, which supports devices of Edge & Core Routing/Switching. This is a conglomeration of platforms supported on HW (ppc, x86, ARM architectures), Virtual and Simulation environments, running on top of Linux and Qnx. I have designed, developed end-to-end solution, deployed and technical support in all platform environments. Lead the remote teams of dev and support. Some of the highly challenging aspects handled are
• Support heterogeneous architectures
• High-availability scenarios
• ISSU/SMU upgrade scenarios
• Multiple test automation environments
• Test automation framework for engineering productivity platform

Jul 2014 – Jun 2018 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Pervasive Quality Platform: (Won highest technology award at Cisco)
• This is an end-2-end CI/CD framework developed for Cisco’s high-end platforms targeted for Enterprise customer portfolio. This has been serving about 10,000 engineers, saving several Millions of engineering (Dev and Test) hours, great improvement in SW quality and enabled quicker delivery of products to customers. I have contributed into the areas of customizing Code Coverage infra to fit into the pipeline, defining & identifying code hotspots to re-define test strategy.
• Lead the end-2-end code coverage solution for IOS-XE, which is a major and single OS, supports devices of enterprise wired & wireless access, aggregation, core and WAN routing & switching. This is a most complex architectural environment which builds on multiple compiler (GCC, ICC & CLANG) environments. I have designed the solution, coached and mentored dev & supports teams and lead the full development, deployment, customer engagements and technical support. Customised solutions for various dev & test groups

Apr 2007 – Jul 2020 · 13 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I am part of Common Software Group (CSG), responsible for improving the engineering productivity across all Cisco's Routing & Switching platforms, so that, the dev & test cycles are optimized and enable quicker product deliveries to end-customers without compromising on software quality. I owned Design, Development, Deployment & Support of required infra in the areas of Code Coverage, Profiling, Unit Testing, Code-flow Analysis, Static Analysis aspects, which helped over 10000 engineers. My work is one of the key workflow modules which helped to maintain & improve Cisco's SW quality at great extent, which saved 100s of Millions of dollars to Cisco.
• Worked in both Dev and Test environments across all platforms of :
• Classic IOS,
• IOS-XE (MCP, Nova, Polaris)
• NX-OS
• IOS-XR
• Achievements:
• Pioneer award winner at Cisco Systems --> Pervasive Quality Platform
• Subject Matter Expert in Dynamic Code analytics & code profiling
• Member technical review committee for innovations at Cisco
• Pioneer award winner at Cisco Systems --> IOS Componentization

Apr 2007 – Jan 2015 · 7 yrs 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Lead End-2-End
• Code Coverage solution for NX-OS platforms
• NX-OS is a target OS for Data centre routing & Switching devices. Handled end-2-end design, dev, deploy & support the complete product across the platforms. A major challenge was, supporting heterogenous architectural modules and complex & customised IPC enabled environment
• Code Coverage solution for Nova platforms
• Nova is an OS used for some of enterprise routing and switching platforms
• SystemTap for kernel code coverage across platforms
• Code Coverage solution optimisation across MCP, NX-OS
• Coverage tooling re-architecture to handle special cases of libraries coverage
• Lead the complete efforts for
• Re-architecting Classic IOS engineering solutions for
• Middleware for Fault injection
• Data driven testing
• Code Coverage
• Instruction profiling
• Worked on Mobile Access Networking (MANET) project, which is an innovation project, to enable Cisco's technology for Mobile applications used in automobiles or any moving objects
• Lead end-2-end Code coverage solution design, development, deployment, support & hardening for a new emerging Cisco's routing & switching platform called, MCP.
• Developed engineering productivity tools for Classic IOS platforms in the areas of
• Unit Testing
• Static Analysis
• Profiling

Jul 2005 – Apr 2007 · 1 yr 9 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• I was involved in Firmware development for HP's Multi Function Printers and Test harness development for the printer software. I have contributed in the aspects of optimizing Paper-handling modules, Calibration. Developed test harness for testing various Printer modules
• Development environment:
• C++, Perl with eCOM on Linux

Aug 2003 – Jun 2005 · 1 yr 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• I was responsible for design, development and deployment of Network Management Application (OMC) for Lucent's GSM network. My key contributions are in the development of Front-end & Back-end to support functions of Configuration Management, Fault Management, Performance Management, Security Management, and System Administration functions for the Base Station System (BSS). The main layers of the system are UI, MIB, COMM, Simulator and DB.
• Awarded for best performer of the team.
• Development environment:
• C++, X-Motif, Sybase with OSP on UNIX

Mar 2002 – Jun 2003 · 1 yr 3 mos · NY, USA and Bangalore, India

• I was responsible for Development, Support of MBS Allocation system & Customer engagements for Goldman Sachs, Inc., NY. The system is the key for managing Mortgage pools of all the customers. It is a client server based system and has been designed and developed on distributed environment using OOAD, C++, X-Motif, Sybase and DB2 based n-tier architecture. I have contributed in developing & testing of new features for the Mortgage management life cycle path and also on-site customer engagements and technical support.

Dec 2001 – Mar 2002 · 3 mos · Tokyo, Japan

• Developed a tool to automate the uploading, melting, compiling and building of the entire HIS system from development environment to user (application server) environment
• Dev Env: Environment: IBM AIX-4.3.1, UNIX Shell Scripting

Nov 2000 – Nov 2001 · 1 yr · Concord, CA, USA

• I was part of VISTA system development project, which is used for managing Premier customers' accounts & portfolios at Bank of America, USA. I have contributed in fixing defects and adding features in the accounts management. This is a 3-tier distributed architecture Application, based on CORBA on AIX and Windows platforms.
• Dev Env: C++, VC++, Sniff++, Rogue Wave lib and DB2 on IBM AIX-4.3, Windows-2000

Jun 2000 – Nov 2000 · 5 mos · Greater Boston Area

• I was responsible for design and development of a mortgage management application for State Street Corporation, Boston

Apr 1998 – Jun 2000 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka

• I was part of Car Crash analysis products development at EASi, which are served to all major car manufacturing companies in US, Germany and Japan. I was responsible for developing
• Car crash analysis modules to analyze the occupants' position during crash time and this would play the key role in Airbags triggering algorithms.
• A test tracking & dumping system (Session dump) to enable reusing the similar testing cycles in the process of regression and system testing. This saves lot of testing time
• Developed UI & graphs to report and analyze the data of various crash scenarios (Head impact, Bumper impact & Head impact) etc. Also that includes engineering data for load/force/stress analysis of the car during crashes
• Dev Env: C++ and X-Motif on Irix 6.4 (SGI), Sun Solaris, HP-Unix, LINUX 6.4 (Compaq) and
• Windows-NT