Arijit Paul
Kanata,Canada
Summary
Experienced and Innovative Network engineer with Computer Science background having more than 15 years of experience, well versed with Cloud technologies and Network automation/SDN ecosystem, passionate to build innovative solutions to match the needs of the new network. Strong technical leader with bias towards action and proven track record in verification of complex solutions involving SDN controller/routers/switches/disaggregated systems/microservices for telco as well as DC network. Impactful contributor in developing POC, solution testing, performance & scale, and network automation. Enjoy solving challenging problems for customers and contributing towards company intellectual property. Has knack to explore, understand and contribute emerging and disruptive technology trends. Areas of Interest L2/L3 network protocols 5G Network Automation Data center Cloud Native Solutions Opensource technologies Microservices Docker and Kubernetes Solving customer problem Mentoring Fast learner Innovation First
Results-oriented and innovative Senior Software Engineer with [Number] years of experience. Easily communicates complex technical requirements to non-technical stakeholders. Excellent leadership record of leading development teams in enterprise-wide development projects.
Detail-oriented, organized and meticulous employee. Works at fast pace to meet tight deadlines. Enthusiastic team player ready to contribute to company success.
Persistent professional equipped with [Number] years of comprehensive experience in [Type] industry. Provides strong technical direction across multiple projects. Responsible and articulate individual with strengths in solutions optimization, mobile and cloud solutions and global project management.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Software Engineer Sr. Staff
JUNIPER NETWORKS
07.2012 - Current
- Working as a senior engineer for Juniper’s Cloud Native routing stack providing solution for the 5G mid-Haul
- Conceptualized and developed the solution from scratch and secured a healthy pipeline of customers
- Work summary
- Staging and validating disaggregated/microservices solutions for Juniper
- Validating, providing valuable feedback for Juniper’s SDN controller solution (Northstar and Contrail) during productization phase
- Showcasing solution using existing technology and evangelizing POC solutions to internal and external stakeholders
- Worked on various customer use cases for their DC solution
- Experience in doing automation using north-bound API, on-box, off-box, closed-loop automation solution
- Help build a team with cloud skills and expediate migration towards cloud adoption as per company imperative.
INFOSYS LTD
10.2008 - 06.2012
PLM Engineer, Lead
Ericsson, Nortel
01.2010 - 01.2012
- Worked in Aachen, Germany as a customer support engineer for Ericsson product SmartEdge which is an aggregation router
- Work summary
- Was responsible to handle customer escalations/field issues from European region
- Worked as a senior support engineer
- Worked for key customers like Vodafone (Italy), SFR, FT, Telefonica, Etisalat etc
- Worked
01.2008 - 01.2010
- Was responsible to lead a team of 12 for systest effort towards validating L3 protocols supported in the enterprise router, product name Secure Router
- Selected Contributions:
- Validated the full suite of L3 protocols which includes unicast and multicast routing, ipv4/ipv6, mpls, igmp snooping etc
- Also responsible in publishing the various S&P numbers for this newly launched product.
QUALCOMM, ATHEROS COMM
01.2008 - 10.2008
- The job responsibility involved setting up a wireless test framework for Atheros, Bangalore and testing of various 802.11n features and 802.11i for Atheros’ flagship 11n chipsets
- This also included expanding team size in Bangalore, building test lab infrastructure, writing up the test plans, automating them, reviewing various customer test scenarios and incorporating them in the test plan.
IKANOS COMMUNICATIONS
01.2007 - 12.2007
- The Conexant CPE solution had ADSL/EFM as the WAN connection and could support SOHO customer requirements
- I was responsible for testing various features like Wireless (WPA, WPA2, WMM), IP QoS and IPSec
- Involved in testing various customer scenario including triple play testing.
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
08.2004 - 06.2006
- Responsible for various L3 testing activity (writing/updating testplan, Automation) in the area such as L3 switching, routing (IGP, BGP) and got first exposure towards MPLS testing
- I was also involved in feature development and in bug fixing activity for Riverstone Metro Ethernet MLS platforms
- Involved in troubleshooting few customer issues.
HCL-CISCO
07.2002 - 07.2004
- Worked in the ODC of Cisco from HCL technologies as test engineer
- Responsible for testing various features of Cisco 800 series router
- As part of the job I had to update the testplan with new testcases as well as tested various new features for which testplan was written from scratch
- Tested various features in IPSec, VoIP, Routing, PBR etc.
Education
BE - Computer Sc. & Engg
NIT
01.1996 - 01.2000
Skills
ProtocolsBGP, OSPFv2, MPLS, SR, LDP, RSVP, PCEP, IPv6MPLS related: EVPN-VXLAN, PBB-EVPN, EVPN, L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLSTraffic Generator: IXIA, SpirentScripting: Python, Ansible, JSON, NETCONF, JinjaCloud Native technologies: Docker, Kubernetes, CNINon-Juniper
Virtualization technologies
Solutions deployment
Product development
Certification
Openstack certification from Mirantis
Timeline
Software Engineer Sr. Staff
JUNIPER NETWORKS
07.2012 - Current
PLM Engineer, Lead
Ericsson, Nortel
01.2010 - 01.2012
INFOSYS LTD
10.2008 - 06.2012
01.2008 - 01.2010
QUALCOMM, ATHEROS COMM
01.2008 - 10.2008
IKANOS COMMUNICATIONS
01.2007 - 12.2007
LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
08.2004 - 06.2006
HCL-CISCO
07.2002 - 07.2004
BE - Computer Sc. & Engg
NIT
01.1996 - 01.2000