# Anirudh R. > Staff Software Engineer Location: San Jose, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/anirudhr Lead with empathy and deliver results on time. Passionate about understanding customer's pain points and collaborate with team to design, create and deliver products that can help solve customer (internal and external) issues. Promoter of efficiency and question status quo. ▪︎ Cloud and Virtualization: Kubernetes, Helm, AWS (EC2, ECS, ECR, S3, Route53, IAM), Azure, GCP, OpenStack, Docker, Vagrant, and ChatOps. VMware suite of products. Tanzu ▪︎ Programming: Python (Proficient), Shell, Go(In Progress), Java (Familiar) ▪︎ Provisioning: Ansible, Salt, Terraform, and Cloud-Init. ▪︎ CI/CD: Jenkins, CircleCI, Travis, KitchenCI, and Package Cloud ▪︎ Version Control: Git, GitHub, GitLab, Perforce and Gerrit ▪︎ Automation: StackStorm (event driven automation), Openstack Mistral, Robot Framework ▪︎ Project tracking and defect tools: JIRA, IBM’s RQM, RTC, ClearCase, and Bugzilla ▪︎ Applications and servers: SDN controllers, Nessus vulnerability scanner, Wireshark/tcpdump, VMware ESXi server ▪︎ Database: RelationalDB and mongodb ▪︎ Network Protocols and Technologies: SDN, Openflow, OpenStack, Fiber Channel protocols and features, TCP/IP, Layer 2-4 Protocols. ▪︎ Traffic generation tools: Ixia and Medusa Github: https://github.com/humblearner ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ VMware Jan 2020 – Present ▪︎ 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] ### Lead Engineer - Automation @ Mode.net Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ▪︎ 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. ### Senior System Software Engineer @ Extreme Networks Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 Brocade's BUs acquired by Extreme Networks from Broadcom Inc. ### Senior Software Engineer @ StackStorm Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area ▪︎ 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) ### Software Test Engineer III (Network Management System) @ Brocade Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area ▪︎ 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. ### Test Engineer (Embedded Systems) @ Brocade Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco Bay Area ▪︎ Managed Access Gateway feature testing (manual and automation) on Brocade 8G and 16G Fiber channel switches and chassis. ▪︎ Led couple of team members on couple of projects with different OEM partners like HP, IBM, and Dell etc. Represented the team during project interlock meetings. ▪︎ Created and managed Access Gateway automation test bed using Brocade FC switches, traffic management tools and servers. Investigated, analyzed and fixed script failures and log defects in IBM’s RQM. ▪︎ Developed logic for automating test cases, to be implemented in TCL/Expect by an external company. ▪︎ Represented team at the project core level meetings. Provided weekly plan and status report data for access gateway to the project managers and other leads. ▪︎ Developed test plans, designs, and topology for various SAN features. Regularly submitted weekly test results and defect reports for review with cross-functional teams during project core team meetings. ▪︎ Reviewed product release notes, and provided help to technical writers in developing product user manuals. ▪︎ Executed test cases, diagnosed and debug issues, for a variety of FC/FCoE/Ethernet fabric features, on Fiber channel and VDX switches. ▪︎ Hands on experience on following OEM chassis with embedded brocade switches: HP BladeSystem c7000 and c3000, Dell PowerEdge, IBM BladeCenter and Huawei E6000H. ▪︎ Tools: JDSU Analyzer, Finisar Jammer, Agilent Santester, SanBlaze (FC and FCoE), EMC VNX array, Brocade 4G, 8G and 16G FC HBA and 10G Ethernet C.N.A, and Emulex LightPulse HBAs. ### Associate Test Engineer - Intern @ Canoga Perkins Corp. Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Greater Los Angeles Area ▪︎ Created automated test cases, using Robot Framework, for SNMP based software ‘Canoga View EMS’. ▪︎ Learned and tested Service OAM, VLAN, LAG and COS in layer 2 Network Interface Device (NID) called Metro Ethernet Switch based on IEEE/MEF standards. ▪︎ Complete functionality Testing using SFP/UTP ports at 10/100/1000 Mbps full/half duplex speeds on NID. ▪︎ Configured lab setup with NIDs and Traffic generation tools from Alcatel and Ixia to test the performance characteristics of NID like Throughput, Latency and RTT. ▪︎ Implemented system integration test plans and test cases per IEEE/ITU-T/MEF standards for L2 and L3 protocols like STP, RSTP, RIP and BGP. ▪︎ Provided product feedback to software developers and actively engaged in solutions. ▪︎ Tested latest builds of ‘Canoga View EMS’ and its plugins, which were used to remotely configure and monitor the NIDs with various configurations and capacity. ## Education ### M.S in Electrical Engineering University of Southern California ### Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Telecommunication University of Mumbai ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rekhianirudh - GitHub: https://github.com/humblearner --- Source: https://flows.cv/anirudhr JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/anirudhr/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12