May 2023 – Aug 2025 · 2 yrs 3 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

• Worked on deploying and maintaining a SaaS product for Secure Federated Learning as part of the IPAS initiative, enabling distributed experiments on customer premises while ensuring data security.
• Managed development, staging, and production environments, overseeing infrastructure upgrades using Bicep.
• Maintained CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps for seamless, automated delivery.
• Led a cross-geo, 5-member team, collaborating closely with developers and SREs to ensure reliable operations and continuous improvement.

Jun 2022 – May 2023 · 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

• Developed and supported an Ethereum-based blockchain product focused on confidential computing, tailored for the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX)
• Maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines to automate builds, testing, and deployments.
• Managed deployment processes ensuring reliability and security of blockchain components in production environments.

Jan 2020 – Jul 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

• Led a 5-member team responsible for qualifying builds for Staging and Production upgrades of ADS (Application Delivery and Security) within a Citrix SaaS environment.
• Automated VM provisioning on multiple hypervisors (Citrix XEN, VMware ESX, KVM, Hyper-V) and container orchestration using Docker Compose to validate CPX deployments.
• Developed deployment and provisioning modules using Terraform and integrated orchestration into CI/CD pipelines as a pre-commit gateway.
• Developed Ansible scripts for configuring test setups and Jenkins pipelines to automate container-based test controllers running on Bastion hosts.
• Designed and provisioned complex test topologies (HA, clusters, containers) for validating ADC builds
• Managed Agile releases for ADS upgrades in Citrix SaaS.

Jan 2016 – Mar 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos

• I joined as a Senior Software Engineer with L2 L3 networking experience . It was a new role at Citrix to work on L4-L7 layers where the ADC would fit in . It demanded quite an effort but it was a very good learning curve i had at this company

Jun 2011 – Jan 2016 · 4 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked as an Automation Engineer developing Perl scripts for testing L3 networking protocols (RIP, OSPF, BGP, AAA) on Juniper routers.
• Conducted manual testing of new protocol features and contributed to feature design discussions to develop comprehensive test plans.
• Automated test cases for RADIUS and AAA protocols to validate authentication, authorization, and accounting workflows on Juniper routers.
• Designed and implemented scripts to simulate various network scenarios, ensuring protocol compliance and robustnes
• Created tools and plugins for testbed reservation, bug tracking, recovery, and debug log instrumentation, significantly reducing manual effort and improving troubleshooting efficiency.

Dec 2010 – Jun 2011 · 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Worked on L3 networking protocol testing and automation

May 2009 – Nov 2009 · 6 mos · Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India · On-site

• Worked on developing and maintaining finance-related promotional features on the eBay website using Java, MySQL, and GWT (Google Web Toolkit).