Vishal Soni

Director of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India20 yrs experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in managing geographically distributed teams.
Proven track record in cloud product development.
Strong focus on customer-first mindset.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking and Cloud Computing expert with extensive experience in product development and team management.

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Skills

Core Skills

NetworkingCloud ComputingQuality Assurance

Other Skills

.NETAutomationClusteringClustering protocolDHCPHigh AvailabilityIPv6L2-L3 protocolsLayer 2NATOSPFPerlRouting protocolsShell ScriptingSwitching

About

Engineering manager with a passion for technology and a track record of launching products for various on-prem, public, private and hybrid cloud businesses. -Managed successful product deliveries with the geographically distributed teams in the following technology areas: ADC (Application Delivery Controllers), Multi-Core, High Availability, Clustering. -Experience in attracting talent and guiding the teams to be operational and productive. -Always working with a 'Customer First' mindset with quick action, support and resolution to the customers.

Experience

Netscaler

4 roles

Senior Engineeering Manager

Promoted

Oct 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 5 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area · On-site

Senior Engineer Manager- Citrix-Netscaler
Managing a team developing, testing and automating various Networking features like HA, Clustering, RHI, IPv6, DHCP, NAT & Routing protocols.
Design, development and automation of Citrix-ADC autoscale feature on AWS & Azure cloud platforms.
Expertise in Citrix-ADC HA, Cluster and other deployment use cases.
Worked in Waterfall as well Agile/Scrum software development model.
Effectively handled various critical customer POCs and Escalations
Technical mentoring for the team. Expertise in mentoring and guiding Junior Engineers, Lateral hires and Freshers.

High AvailabilityClusteringRouting protocolsIPv6DHCPNAT+2

Manager, Product Development, NetScaler

Promoted

Sep 2013 – Sep 2015 · 2 yrs

Engineering manager handling mid sized team working on networking protocols like High availability, VRRP, Netscaler Clustering, routing protocols - RIP, BGP, OSPF , NAT & LSN.
Hands on expertise with most of the features above.

High AvailabilityVRRPNATRouting protocolsNetworking

Sr. Software Test Engineer

Oct 2010 – Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Testing Netscaler Clustering protocol.
https://www.citrix.com/content/dam/citrix/en_us/documents/products-solutions/citrix-triscale-clustering-tech-note.pdf
Test plan preparation and execution for QSP (Cluster protocol) and Cluster-DFD (data flow distribution).

TestingClustering protocolQuality Assurance

Software Test Engineer

May 2007 – Sep 2010 · 3 yrs 4 mos

Testing Netscaler high availability feature -> HA, HA-INC (across network), HA failsafe, HA over IPv6, secure HA, HA syncvlan & nsvlan.
Test plan preparation and execution for Netscaler Active-Active solution based on VRRP.
Test execution for Netscaler dynamic routing protocols.

TestingHigh AvailabilityQuality Assurance