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Thanigainathan Manivannan

Seattle,WA

Summary

Seasoned technology industry professional with over 18 years of comprehensive experience in software development, SaaS, DevOps, Performance testing and customer infrastructure deployments. Demonstrated success in driving product strategy, development, testing, and launch initiatives from concept to market success. Skilled in leveraging technical expertise to architect scalable solutions and lead teams to successful outcomes.

Overview

20
20
years of professional experience

Work History

Sr Software Engineer - Solution Engg

F5 Inc
11.2021 - Current
  • Customer solutions testing to build, run, and manage modern apps through a platform as a service (PaaS) layer architected with Kubernetes runtime, with a multi-tenant supported control plane.
  • Deploying workloads across on-prem, colocation and multi-cloud models to meet expanding app delivery requirements for service providers and enterprise data center operators using VE, KVM, Velocity, AWS and BIGIP Rseries platforms.

Sr Software Performance Engineer

F5 Inc
12.2018 - 10.2021
  • Design and implement pipelines and related code for building, testing, and deploying of Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, and other orchestration tooling for F5 SaaS offerings for pay-as-you go products etc using AWS.
  • Experience with performance tools such as Locust/JMeter for container based and orchestration systems such as Docker and Kubernetes
  • Hands on experience with creating key performance metric dashboards using prometheus/Grafana/Amazon Cloudwatch identifying bottlenecks and optimizing resource allocation
  • Assess customer engagement feedback on performance metric to find gap analysis, build new process to optimize system performance metrics and indicators.

Sr Test Engineer

F5 Inc
10.2015 - 11.2018
  • Test lead for the BIGIP service provider protocols handling team of six for supporting BIG IP features such as SIP, Diameter, Message routing framework, MQTT and CGNAT features.
  • Generate automated weekly SP test team report for management that includes requirement planning across releases, test execution, automation failures, sustaining release plans, incoming customer subcases and resolution status.
  • Interact and establish working relationships with peer leaders in Product Business units, Engineering groups and Field-based Pre-Sales Engineering as well as to evangelize/influence, increase F5 business collaborations across different product groups.

Test Engineer III

F5 Inc
10.2013 - 09.2015
  • Automate and validate various features to support High availability support for BIG IP products.
  • Validate SIP with CGNAT features for service providers including tunneling solutions, such as Dual-Stack Lite (DS Lite), XLAT464 and DNS64.

Test Engineer II

F5 Inc
11.2011 - 09.2013
  • Automate functional test scripts & customer subcase using python & bash scripting for L2 & L3 protocols.
  • Ability to work collaboratively across multiple product development locations, delivering products with quality & excellence.

Research Engineer

Gridstat Research laboratory, Washington State University
01.2009 - 10.2011
  • Design and development of Time valid One time signature protocol and TESLA for power grid applications to reduce latency in GridStat framework.
  • Worked on integrating MPC8572 Security processor into GridStat Architecture to improve the multicast authentication performance.

Software Engineer Intern

Intel Corporation
08.2010 - 03.2011
  • Testing and validating next generation Intel processors used in Server platforms.
  • Integrated IO validation, pciExpress and memory validation using python/bash scripts.

Software Test Engineer

Alcatel-Lucent
12.2005 - 12.2008
  • Software development & testing of networking products 7302 ISAM and 7330 IPDSLAM.
  • Test automation for features/regression, Root cause analysis of the customer critical FR's, audit test list coverage and set expectations for exit criteria for the product release.
  • Communicating & understanding the overall architecture of the customer deployment scenarios and recreate the complex core network setup in lab environment.
  • Root cause analysis of the customer critical FR's, audit test list coverage, updating in Clearcase and exit criteria for the feature release.

Education

Masters - Computer Engineering, Network protocols

Washington State University
Pullman, WA
10.2011

Bachelor - Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engg

Anna University
India
01.2005

Skills

  • Testing using Deepseek , Gemini and openAI LLM models
  • Github co-pilot
  • Gitlab duo
  • Deepseek
  • Ansible
  • Golang
  • Kibana
  • JMeter
  • Locust
  • Azure
  • AWS
  • GCP
  • Python
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Postman
  • Hashicorp Terraform
  • Istio
  • Consul
  • IXIA/Sprient performance tools

Publications

Evaluating Multicast Message Authentication Protocols for Use in Wide Area Power Grid Data Delivery Services, Carl H. Hauser, Thanigainathan Manivannan, David E. Bakken, 2012, 45th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2151 - 2158

Timeline

Sr Software Engineer - Solution Engg

F5 Inc
11.2021 - Current

Sr Software Performance Engineer

F5 Inc
12.2018 - 10.2021

Sr Test Engineer

F5 Inc
10.2015 - 11.2018

Test Engineer III

F5 Inc
10.2013 - 09.2015

Test Engineer II

F5 Inc
11.2011 - 09.2013

Software Engineer Intern

Intel Corporation
08.2010 - 03.2011

Research Engineer

Gridstat Research laboratory, Washington State University
01.2009 - 10.2011

Software Test Engineer

Alcatel-Lucent
12.2005 - 12.2008

Masters - Computer Engineering, Network protocols

Washington State University

Bachelor - Engineering, Electronics & Communication Engg

Anna University

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