Feb 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 4 mos

• Currently, I am working on a product called "Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)" which is a Infrastructure-as-a-service solution for on-premise data centers.
• I work on a SDN Controller which is used to configure and manage the on-premise data center data plane. The SDN controller follows Intent-Based networking model and is a distributed system with clustering, sharding, replication, persistence and high availability features,
• I lead a team that works in:
• Infra areas like fabric software upgrade
• Openstack integration with ACI
• Nutanix hypervisor integration with ACI
• observability/monitoring capability to the managed third-party applications like Kubernetes cluster

Jun 2014 – Mar 2019 · 4 yrs 9 mos

• Managed a team of 20 engineers which worked on Switching (L2), Routing (L3) forwarding features for the new NCS router. This router is currently deployed in multiple SP customer’s network.
• Managed the Multicast area and BFD components on Access domain routers ASR9xx. I led a team to deliver the complex multicast features like PIM, IGMP, mVPN-GRE, mLDP
• Closely collaborated with various cross functional teams like Product Management, Technical Marketing to define the feature set, scale requirements; worked with HW, FPGA teams during the development phase
• Led various Tier-1/Tier-2 Service Provider customer engagements during the Early Field Trials, solution deployments

Jun 2010 – Jun 2014 · 4 yrs

• -- As an Individual Contributor, I was involved in the PIMv4, PIMv6, IGMP snooping feature development on ASR9xx routers and also in the deployment of these features on the customer network

Nov 2004 – Jun 2010 · 5 yrs 7 mos

• Part of the development team of CPT (Carrier Packet Transport) product. I developed the IGMP snooping and MVR features on CPT.
• Part of the sustenance team for various ethernet line cards like ML100, CE100, MLMR, CEMR on ONS15454.
• Worked in TL1, SNMP area