Shravan N

VP of Engineering

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India22 yrs 1 mo experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Over 22 years in Telecom/Datacom and Networking.
Expert in Engineering Management and Packet Processing.
Proven track record in delivering high-performance NICs.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecom Infrastructure Expert with extensive experience in Networking and Engineering Management.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering ManagementPacket Processing

Other Skills

Open vSwitchAutomationProject ManagementOVSvirtio-netSR-IOVTCLLayer 2TCP/IPRouting ProtocolsOSPFRoutingBGPSwitchesIP

About

Experience of over 22 years in the Telecom/Datacom and Networking Industry involving work in the Engineering Management, Product Engineering as well Service Provider Domain.

Experience

22 yrs 1 mo

Total Experience

5 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Intel corporation

2 roles

Software Engineering Manager

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

Highlights Managing a team of engineers to deliver on
Intel’s SmarNICs (IPUs), Foundational NICs (FNICs) and SoC solutions. Led the team to deliver multiple variants of 1GigE to 200GigE NICs, SoCs and IPUs. The team specialized in testing programmable packet processing pipelines in HW and SW optmisations for offloading traffic to the packet processing pipeline. The team also build automation suites using automation frameworks to scale across products and releases. This time involved building a testing and validation team to scale across products and features on the IPU, FNIC and SoC portfolios.
Additionally, managing performance and careers, working with vendors and contract workers in various engagement models, building various workflow tools for tracking effort and cost. Took on the responsibility of managing the labs in Bangalore for the team. This included lab planning, budgeting and operations

Engineering ManagementOpen vSwitchPacket Processing

Network Software Engineer

Mar 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

Highlights Testing Intel’s SmartNIC solutions based on FPGAs focused on OVS offload and virtio-net interfaces with virtio backend in hardware. Tested specific customer use cases and scale.
Protocols and Technoloies OVS, virtio-net, virtio-blk, VxLAN, SR-IOV and server virtualization, Live migration.
Additionally This experience involved visiting customer locations, understanding use cases and requirements

Juniper networks

2 roles

QA Engineer

Apr 2013 – Jan 2018 · 4 yrs 9 mos

Highlights Testing Juniper’s routing products (M/MX/VMX/T/QFX series products) for the service provider and Data Centre edge in specific customer scenarios. This included deployments in Internet, datacentre and mobility networks. This involves testing customers scenarios with the scale and configuration that mimics the customer deployments. The current role also involves testing Juniper’s virtualization products like VMX.

QA Engineer

Jul 2010 – Apr 2013 · 2 yrs 9 mos

I work as a QA engineer in the Branch Systems Business Unit of the SLT Business Group in Bangalore.
Testing of Enterprise security products (SRX Branch Products) in juniper’s Test Framework. The testing was targeted in specific customer deployments to find areas of improvement in the system. The deployments involved were of the various kinds like: Managed service provider environment and enterprise Hub and spoke environment.

Mindtree limited

Test Lead

Dec 2005 – Jun 2010 · 4 yrs 6 mos · Bangalore

Was part of the testing practice and later Testing Business in MindTree.
System Testing of enterprise class high speed networking devices.
My job involved testing system software for functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability. Use of enterprise class testing equipment.
I joined MindTree with the designation of Senior Engineer and was promoted to a Test Specialist and later as a Test Lead.

Relicance infocomm

Engineer

Dec 2003 – Dec 2005 · 2 yrs · Bangalore

Worked as a Network Operations and Maintenance Engineer in what was then Reliance Infocomm in Bangalore
Job included Project Implementation involving network integration of over 25 routers and switches in the said period.
Was Responsible for operating and maintaining over 50 nodes in assigned geographical area.