RAVI MANOHAR KOTA

Project 1 : CAT9K Switching for Cisco Enterprise Customer, SJC, USA

• Worked on Enhancements to bring up Location Aware (System’s internal) database feature for CAT9400
  Passport Switches, Code Enhancements to YANG models to add properties to Embedded database, boot-
  time insertion, run-time updates based on PoE protocol aspects and testing
  Skills: Enterprise Switching, YANG suite, Netconf data modeling, Cisco proprietary tools and software, POE protocol understanding.

Project 2: 5G Microservices Deployment for Cisco Enterprise Customer, SJC, USA

Microservices based Architecture for 5G deployment over Amazon AWS and on-premise setup migration.

• Developed Python and Boto3 based AMI Creation automation for Inception Server and CP / UP deployment
• Support the team for other Automation Infrastructure deployment on AWS Region, Cloud VPC, and AWS Outposts.
• Docker containerization of Python scripts, AWS EC2 instances, and customer live demos.
  Skills: Python3, AWS Cloud, BOTO3, Cisco proprietary tools and software.

Project 3: IOT Gateway System for Ikea Sweeden client:
Cypress and Broadcom Platform for Home Automation IOT Gateway based on RTOS Stack. I worked on development of Gateway Middleware, supporting -

• WICED ThreadX SDK integration – upgrade the WICED in IOT Stack, code 3-way merge and test every cycle.
• Explore and Integrate WICED XIP functionality to IOT codebase and test, bug fixes.
• Worked on Gateway IoT Application issues in a variety of features, such as scenes, routines, and modes.

Skills: ThreadX RTOS, C, Git, Gerrit, Ozone, Segger J-Link, Embedded Programming, and IoT Protocol.

Project 4: Docker Containerization for ARM's enterprise AARCH64 server platform

• Containerization effort for a list of provided 3rd party apps by an ARM customer, in a multi-member team of quick development and deployment.
• I worked on deployment of misclaneous Kong, MySQL, Eggdrop etc. packages, ported to AARCH64 and tested before publish to dockerhub.io registry.

Skills: Docker containerization architecture, commands , scripting and automation, git, dockerhub.

Project 5: for NXP Noida Client
BSP - Secure Boot Implementation for NXP’s Audio Precision Customer APx58x B Series Audio Analyzers platform required implementing Secure booting of OS and File System.

• Supported team in coding the command handlers, HSM application implementation, explore openSSL setups for experimentation and validation, manual testing the automated of the delivery.

Skills: U-boot development, OpenSSL commands, explored certificate chain creation and signing concepts, Bitbucket, Git.

Project 6 @MEDIATEK Noida - Wireless and Connectivity BU

• Worked on a wide range of IEEE802.11 based Chipsets and Platforms and codebases and supported various developement efforts.
• Implemented PSE Reset Feature in MT7603u , and other features for host of chipsets and on Windows, Linux OS.
• Throughput testing and analysis for 802.11 data rate and Linux driver performance tuning enhancements.
• worked on developing C-based test case framework for FPGA based Firmware Emulation on Xilinx Spartan FPGA for 802.11ac MIMO Smart Antenna feature for MT7615 at TAIWAN in my Onsite work opportunity, I won the Best Performance Award (The ‘V-Award’ for the year 2014).
• Bugfixes in Ralink UI MacOSX application
• Performed unit tests on all changes made to the MACOSX codebase.
• Configuring and testing security measures, such as encryption and authentication protocols like 802.1x and WPA2, on the wireless network.
• Skills: IXIA Chariot Throughput testing suite, Wireshark, Omnipeek for packet capture and analysis, Ralink UI, Packet Generator application, hostapd, wpa_supplocant, RADIUS server, MacOS related Xcode IDE, Perforce and SVN VCS.