An accomplished software engineer with 20+ years of experience in SDN, routing protocols, and building scalable distributed systems that drive performance and reliability in networking infrastructure.
Overview
24
24
years of professional experience
Work History
Tech Lead
Google
10.2018 - Current
Led several SDN control plane projects responsible for application-aware traffic engineering and intent-based policy enforcement of Google’s Internet peering edge routing infrastructure
Directed multiple cross-organizational, multi-year projects to enhance the reliability, scalability, and performance of Google’s internet connectivity
Defined SDN compliance requirements across evolving infrastructure and networking tracks to ensure safe, regression-free transitions to next-generation architectures
Proposed and implemented architecture for the regionalization of the global SDN stack, choosing availability and accuracy tradeoffs of egress traffic engineering services across different scopes based on data driven analysis
Principal Engineer
Ciena
04.2011 - 09.2018
Architected L3VPN and Segment Routing solutions for next-generation networking platforms
Designed and developed VRF infrastructure and frame I/O mechanisms for containerized routing protocols
Evaluated third-party protocol stacks for performance and suitability in next-generation systems
Led the hardware offloading of BFD/CFM on various platforms, achieving a 20x improvement in OAM session scalability
Tech Lead
Aricent
01.2001 - 08.2009
Designed and developed Static LSP, Fast Reroute (FRR) and. Static Route Tracker (IP SLA) module.
Developed the MPLS forwarding unit and integrated MPLS with FreeBSD TCP/IP stack and LDP with RIP.
Education
Bachelors in Computer Science And Engineering
Skills
C
C
TCP/IP
BGP
MPLS
Segment Routing
SDN
Multithreading
Distributed Architecture
High Availability Systems
Achievements
Received several peer bonus and spot awards at Google for resolving complex egress traffic engineering issues to meet critical business use cases.
Inventor in the U.S. Patent: “Enhancements in the Connectivity Fault Management (CFM) Protocol.” (https://patents.justia.com/patent/10142203)