Harish R

Software Engineer

Bangalore, Karnataka, India9 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

Led a $49 million project at Cisco.
Developed tools reducing QA efforts by 35%.
Cisco Live speaker with extensive networking expertise.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications Software Engineer specializing in Network Orchestration and Microservices.

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Skills

Core Skills

MicroservicesNetwork Orchestration

Other Skills

Spring BootYANG (Yet Another Next Generation)JavaGroovyCLangChainNeo4jOSSDevOpsJiraGitNetwork AutomationObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)SQLJenkins

About

Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer networking industry. Highly skilled in Java and Python, specially focusing on network service orchestration domain.

Experience

9 yrs 8 mos

Total Experience

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Telstra

2 roles

Senior Network Software Engineering Specialist

Feb 2025 – Present · 1 yr 4 mos

¶ Project:
> Telstra Network Inventory (TNI):
Development of in-house Network Inventory management tool
Built the ETL solution for migration of legacy MITS Inventory with ~92 million records to TNI

MicroservicesSpring Boot

Network Software Engineering Specialist

May 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 9 mos

¶ Project:
> NSO package development for Layer2 services using Layered Service Architecture (LSA) that enhances scalability and helps in massive deployment
> Test case automation using ROBOT framework that validates the service packages for the software version upgrade of NSO.
> Migration of thousands of L2 services from ASR9K 9010 to ASR9K 9903 without disrupting the network.
¶Innovations:
> Developed RobotGen tool that reduces ~35% manual efforts spent by the QA team
¶ Activities & Achievements:
> Runner-Up of Scale-Up Telstra India Idea Board Event, 2023
> Winner of FY23 Q3 Team Award
> Delivered NSO Training to GN&T India

YANG (Yet Another Next Generation)JavaNetwork Orchestration

Cisco

2 roles

Software Consulting Engineer II

Promoted

Aug 2019 – Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 8 mos

¶ Projects:
> Engaged in gathering requirements from project stakeholders & design the LLD documents
> Lead the India team for a European client by actively participating in grooming User stories, leading the scrum call, assigning stories to engineers, code reviews and managing releases.
> Played development role and later lead the team for a $49 million project. My activites include design of low-level UML diagrams for the other developers in the team, develop NSO packages, test automation, CICD pipeline, code and test case review, production deployment and customer demo.
¶Innovations:
> Automated Best Practices Compliance Checker (ABC2) is a Sonarqube for NSO developers identifying the code caveats, best practices and possible defects in the code
¶ Activities & Achievements:
> As part of NSO Bootcamp, delivered NSO training to people on boarding the team
> Speaker at Cisco Live, Barcelona 2020
> Speaker at NSO Developer Days, 2020
> Finalists in AE Virtual Hackathon Event, 2020

GroovyYANG (Yet Another Next Generation)Network Orchestration

Software Consulting Engineer I

Aug 2016 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos

¶Projects
> Implementation of network services (L2vpn, L3vpn, Voice, MBH, Mobility services, etc) using Network Service Orchestration
> Migration of existing network services from 7600 to ASR1K
> Discovery of services in a brownfield environment and managed those services via NSO
¶Innovations:
> Worked on the automation tool for YANG to JAVA POJOs that can be used by the NSO developers to read and write Yang CDB data.
> Development of Dynamic and closed loop test automation framework which greatly helped the QA team to reduce their testing time by automatically converting rally test cases to ROBOT test scripts.
¶ Activities & Achievements:
> Second Runner Up in HackFest 2019 conducted in Cisco
> Winner of Idea Presentation category conducted as part of TechSouk 2019 in Cisco.

YANG (Yet Another Next Generation)JavaNetwork Orchestration

Samsung r&d institute india - bangalore private limited

Student Trainee

Jan 2016 – Jun 2016 · 5 mos · Bangalore · On-site

¶ Student Trainee (Software) for Samsung Semiconductor Unit
¶ Project:
Development of Micro SD Emulator for the world's first 256GB SD card that helps in testing the card firmware code before testing on the actual SD card. This emulator helped the team in identifying defects much earlier in the software development lifecycle.
¶ Programming:
> C, Java
¶ Tools & Technologies:
> Java Swings

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