Venkata Ventrapragada

Software Engineer

Greater Chicago, Illinois, United States19 yrs 3 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in Optical Transport Network solutions.
Proven track record in team leadership and project delivery.
Skilled in automating complex testing processes.

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Skills

Core Skills

Optical Transport Network (otn)Software TestingAutomationOptical Line SystemsTeam LeadershipProject ManagementNetwork ProtocolsL2 ProtocolsNetwork Engineering

Other Skills

Python (Programming Language)Optical Transponder MuxponderEmbedded CProduct DevelopmentFrame RelayAsynchronous transfer modeJupyterNode.jsObject-Oriented Programming (OOP)GitAmazon Web Services (AWS)REST APIsPPP protocolUT automationSNMP

About

Software professional with a strong focus on developing high-quality and scalable software. Experience with all stages of the development cycle. Skills include full system lifecycle experience, building agile development teams, driving performance improvement programs, and managing customer expectations. Hiring and developing talent in the optical technology domain. Quality initiatives and code re-factoring for maintainable code, having sessions on programming principles Capex Savings: Optimizing the traffic generators utilization for data path related testing by evaluating low-cost 1:N optical switches. Engineering tool development; such as pre-code commit automation tool development. Change management; First fully Agile software development process for NCS1004 line card development - NCS1K4-OTN-XP. A Certified scrum master.

Experience

19 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

6 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

Current Experience

Cisco

2 roles

Software Consulting Engineer - Optical Networks

Dec 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 6 mos · Illinois, United States

Testing software and automating Acceptance test plan for NCS1014 and NCS1020 platforms.
Performing Software consulting Engineer role at customer site.
Software testing, debugging and identifying the root cause for the issues found during the Acceptance testing.
Automating the Acceptance test plan for NCS1K datapath testing, control plane testing and NCS1020 DWDM channel plan testing.
Automated the QSFP28 and QSFP-DD pluggable module test plan for Cisco and non-cisco optics for customer.
Automated the Sign off check tests for the Cisco customer’s Production network environment.
Automated the NCS1K platform infrastructure testing like power module redundancy testing and Software and firmware upgrades.

Python (Programming Language)Optical Transponder MuxponderOptical Transport Network (OTN)Software Testing

SW Development Manager

May 2013 – Sep 2023 · 10 yrs 4 mos

Joined Cisco as a software engineer and worked on optical line systems, Transponder, muxponder (Xponder) line systems, DWDM technology, and VxWorks embedded optical platforms.
Promoted to Technical Leader, built team for optical, routing convergence platform supporting Automatic protection switching (OTN switching), and packet-optical interfaces.
Moved into the Leadership role in 2018, being part of an amazing NCS1004 team that delivered a universal transponder and muxponder solution that provides metro, long-haul, and submarine applications and is designed for complete automation for web-scale.

Optical Transport Network (OTN)Embedded COptical Line SystemsTeam Leadership

Tech mahindra

Design Lead

Sep 2007 – May 2013 · 5 yrs 8 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Worked on SNMP, deep packet inspection, Access control lists, openSSL for IPSEC on secure access gateway, and enhancements on router CLI.
Point-to-point protocol stack development. UT automation using Python.

Embedded CProduct DevelopmentNetwork ProtocolsAutomation