Shiva Sai Prasad Kothapalli

Nest Wi-Fi Pro Development

• Actively involved in the development of Nest WiFi Pro product from early stages with key contributions to modules such as WAN, Firewall, QoS, LED and WiFi/Mesh(IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, 11s, 11k)
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Router Stack, encompassing the Home APP, Cloud, and Router Firmware components
• Involved in Metrics development, privacy reviews and implementing PLX dashboards/alerts to meet KPIs
• Point of contact for the Privacy/Security Verification and Vulnerability fixes
• Fixed 50+ Critical bugs at different stages of product development and involved in release bug scrubs
• Working in collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Device Software, EngProd, Hardware, TPM, Dogfood and Silicon Vendor teams
• Complete understanding of Build System, sanity/regression automation framework, CD router and Google Unittest

Google/Nest Wi-Fi Development

• Implemented Google/Nest Wi-Fi features such as Primary and Secondary VLAN support for IPTV, Dynamic enabling of IPv6 without interrupting IPv4 connectivity, Integration of NodeJS and AOGH support and Pre-OOBE mode
• Key contributor in product quality improvements like enhancements to log generation/collection and fixing long standing critical bugs across all modules
• Proactive crash monitoring, debugging and fixing the crashes to meet KPI's by implementing shell scripts for backtrace extraction

Google Wi-Fi Stack porting to OpenWRT

• Understanding OpenWRT, build system and convert AP software build files to openwrt Makefiles to port AP stack
• Migrate from upstart scripts to init scripts to run AP stack on OpenWRT and register with Google Cloud for Device Onboarding

Software Trainee

• Undergone extensive training in C Programming, Data Structures, Networking, Socket Programming, Linux Internals, Multithreading and Operating System Concepts