▪︎ Start-up Mode.net acquired by VMware.

▪︎ Collaborate with telecom service providers and assist them in their journey from 4G to 5G network (greenfield and brownfield deployments) using Telco Cloud Automation and monolithic to micro service based architecture with Virtual and Cloud Network functions. [Service Provider and Edge BU].

▪︎ Actively participating in customer journey design, planning and troubleshooting sessions, while guiding and inspiring team to adopt continuous integration and delivery approach with automated release and build management.

▪︎ [Kubernetes, Tanzu, AWS and various VMWware virtualization offerings, CI/CD, Product planning and development, Customer Insight]

▪︎ Supervised team of 4+ engineers to build/develop end to end automation framework, automated test suites, CI/CD(continuous delivery) pipelines from scratch for complete product offering.

▪︎ Designed and implemented company wide processes around git branching, tagging and uniform versioning across all the components of SDN stack (L3-L7) and UI.

▪︎ Key achievements:

o Successfully implemented multiple CI/CD pipelines across 10+ micro services based software stack.

o Effectively reduced testing effort from weeks of manual testing to 5 hours of e2e nightly automation with full regression and 80% test coverage.

o Automated release pipelines, reducing release time from a day to 15 minutes per release.

o Managed more than 15 releases and multiple daily automation builds.

o Introduced semver and latest open source processes for smooth, efficient and faster release.

▪︎ Skillfully defined automation priorities and automation task delegation to the team.

▪︎ Instrumental in planning end to end software life cycle and company processes with the VP of engineering, product and ops. Participated in system architecture and new feature design.

▪︎ Coordinated the effort to manage and scale infrastructure on hybrid/multiple clouds (internal DC, AWS, GCP and Azure.)

▪︎ Fostered, mentored and coordinated senior engineers and interns. Participated and helped improve hiring process for all levels with HR.

▪︎ Developed new features, fixed critical issues and, managed and enhanced automation framework.

Brocade's BUs acquired by Extreme Networks from Broadcom Inc.

▪︎ Reassigned to the open source even driven workflow engine start-up, acquired by Brocade, StackStorm to integrate StackStorm's Event Driven Automation Engine with Brocade Workflow Composer. (Now: Extreme Network's Workflow Composer)

▪︎ Contributed and supported open source community version of StackStorm and Brocade/Extreme Workflow Composer (enterprise StackStorm). Moved from QA to development in this team while contributing and learning from open source community.

▪︎ Responsible for e2e software life cycle management development: Developed new features, bug fixes, maintaining CI/CD pipeline, packaging, release process, updating infrastructure (IaC), testing and training other teams and SEs at Brocade.

▪︎ Skills: Python, StackStorm, Mistral (YAQL), ChatOps, GitHub, CircleCI, Travis, KitchenCI, AWS, Docker, Vagrant, Package Cloud, Ansible, Terraform, Cloud-init, OpenAPI (swagger API)

▪︎ SQA Lead: Brocade Workflow Composer: zero touch provisioning for IP fabric using eBGP. Created automation that caught some critical bugs before initial offering.

(Python, Vagrant, CI/CD: Jenkins, Git, Gerrit, Robot Framework, SoapUI, Agile: JIRA)

▪︎ Automation Lead: Brocade Flow Optimizer, an SDN application: Proactively undertook creation of REST based automation framework for Brocade Flow Optimizer. Reducing manual testing from weeks to automated setup creation, tests and reporting in hours.

(Python, SoapUI, SDN Controller (Brocade and OpenDaylight), Brocade MLX and ICX routers, Tracker: JIRA)

▪︎ Successfully validated Brocade’s OpenStack Cinder (FC) Plugin (Openstack releases: Icehouse and Juno) on a brand new Openstack setup.

(OpenStack controller and compute nodes, EMC VNXe Storage Array and HP 3PAR Storage Arrays, SAN)

▪︎ Learned QF-Test Automation to automate Brocade’s Fabric and VDX switch features on Brocade Network Advisor.

▪︎ Demonstrated Brocade Network Advisor’s REST API integration (PoC) to few prospective customers. Evaluated new tools for the team like: SoapUI for REST automation.

(SoapUI, BNA, QF-Test, Brocade VDX, IxExplorer and IxNetwork, Wireshark, LinuxOS (Ubuntu and CentOS), VMware ESXi Hypervisor)

▪︎ Managed lab resources for the BU across time zones.

(MIMIC, an SNMP simulator (6k virtual devices), Cisco ACS Server, Nessus Vulnerability scanner, SANBlaze)

▪︎ Actively participated in design discussions, and functional spec. reviews for various product lines with development, QA and product managers. Assited to define, clarify and finalize product requirements. Proposed RFEs in JIRA for design improvements during the project life cycle.

▪︎ Conducted SE trainings, and solution architects for their SDN and OpenStack setup and demos to prospective and existing customers. Provided feedback for technical publications reviews.

▪︎ Experience working and managing offshore SQA teams and contract partners on various projects.