# Gowri Shankari Surendran

> Technical Leader at Cisco Systems

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gowrishankarisurendran

Highly Motivated Engineer who has an eye for detail and has an innate curiosity to root cause the problems seen. I believe automation and test driven development is the way towards a successful project.

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ CISCO, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Present | San Jose, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ CISCO, Inc.
Jan 2012 – Present
DNAC Assurance
• Leading the automation engineering effort for the DNAC Assurance (An analytics platform which will convert streaming data into valid use cases for network administrators)
• Setup the CI/CD pipeline for the Assurance application on top of DNAC.
Synchronizing a broad spectrum of defect prevention and detection strategies for RESTful services in IoT portfolio
• Executed extensive feature testing by validating the RESTful services which can be consumed by the end user to discover and monitor I/O controllers and Industrial Switches
• Operated switching protocols and structured end to end network topologies in accordance with the Converged plant wide Ethernet system
• Automated test scripts, using Python, across consumable RESTful services and validated adherence to REST API standards
• Worked on OT (Operations technology) devices such as PLC’s and I/O devices and set up an entire network which can be managed by Industrial Network Director
• Involved in stress and performance tests of NMS application and automated data gathering statistics
• Setup and executed in-house simulator which generates layer2/layer3 traffic for stressing NMS application
• Tested variety of mesh endpoints such as DA (Distribution Automation) gateways, Range Extenders, RF based smart meters.
• Set up the end to end Field Area Network Architecture including the all components in the field and in the DMZ to test the entire solution

### Student @ Student at San Jose State University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012

### Research Assisstant @ San Jose State University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Add Modules for a Mobile web advertising web portal.
Based in Java Struts, Spring Framework,mySQL ,XML

### Software Engineer In Retail Industry @ Infosys Technologies
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008
Freight Online Control and Update System (FOCUS) for DHL-US                                          Tool: CICS, JCL, IMS, DB2
				
Worked on the enhancement and sustenance of FOCUS group of applications, which is the heart of DHL US Express systems 		
Performed Function Point Analysis and Feasibility Analysis for various enhancements in FOCUS application
Involved in the route optimization project for domestic shipments for DHL USA
Involved in an imperative enhancement of automatic sorting and weighing of shipment that aided growth in revenue
Involved in the conversion of hierarchical IMS database to a less expensive relational DB2 database for their revenue entry backup data

Out of Origin Shipment Merge - Data Analysis for DHL-US                                                              Tool: JCL, IMS, DB2

Designed and wrote prototypes for filtering 'Out of origin shipment' data
Optimized expensive queries for 'Out of Origin Shipment' and reduced mainframe usage by one tenths


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Engineering
San José State University

### Bachelors in Engineering in Electronics and Communications Engineering
Sathyabama University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/gowri-shankari-surendran-7003a16

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Last updated: 2026-04-10