Experienced Software Engineer with 10+ years of experience working in embedded systems in Networking domain across Layer 2/Layer 3 switches, routers and WiFi access points. Skilled in C, Linux, TCP/IP, GIT.
Experience
2022 — Now
2022 — Now
• Working on IPsec solution enablement and its performance. Contributed to open source IPDK repositories which improved customer experience in deploying the solution easily and for testing its performance.
• Worked on network solution for secure AI workloads by offloading NGINX from host to IPU and contributed to the white paper. This includes plumbing the packet processor pipeline in IPU and enabling virtualization on the host via SRIOV. This was demonstrated at various conferences like Dell World and OCP.
• Worked on designing and developing debug and validation tool for debugging customer issues on Tofino based chips running on switches at cloud data centers.
• Worked on designing the framework and publishing knowledge base articles based on customer issues and queries.
• Triaged customer field issue and provided solutions.
• Reviewed academic research papers based on Tofino P4 programmable switch.
2018 — 2022
2018 — 2022
Mesh
• I worked on Wireless Mesh Feature where there is a need to understand and familiarize the mesh changes implemented on other chipset and porting the corresponding changes to the firmware code.
• Tested, debugged and fixed issues between mesh nodes, gateway and external clients .
Astral Wi-Fi Analytics
• Astral Analytics system provides visibility into the status, health, and performance of Wi-Fi Access deployments to simplify support and maximize user experience.
• Implemented the Wi-Fi analytics application on platforms with Broadcom, MediaTek, Celeno and Qualcomm chipsets.
• The project involved understanding the driver, fetching the required Wi-Fi details from the driver, parsing the required details, and sending the details to Astral cloud.
• Worked closely with the QA team to debug and fix issues
Cable Modems
• Worked in yocto environment for DOCSIS based cable modems involving ARM & ATOM processors by designing and developing features in RDKB based opensource Broadband gateway platform.
• Worked on integrating new feature and SDK drop from SoC vendor.
2017 — 2018
2014 — 2017
2014 — 2017
Greater Chicago Area
• Designed and developed framework where software can be deployed in the ground and the airborne unit in the fight pulls the software, does an integrity check and upgrades.
• Designed and developed dynamic content service for configuration management across multiple airlines.
• Flight tracker application, map files for satellite beam switching, airborne portal gets updated very often. They must be encapsulated as bundles so that the airborne unit in tail can communicate and download these applications. The process of bundle creation is automated.
• Analysis, design, and development of fixes for field issues across various releases, products, and technologies.
2010 — 2014
2010 — 2014
Chennai Area, India
• Requirement analysis, design, and development of VLAN statistics & QinQ statistics, in Ezchip based network processor. Statistics involves enabling the counters, read, clear, snapshot operations and maintaining the counter databases.
• Key member in design, coding, testing and customer delivery.
• Worked on developing trace framework and dumping databases at NP driver level. Trace support was added to log the info, debug, error level parameters at NP driver level which is helpful in debugging during erroneous conditions. Environmental variables are also involved which encodes different components and subcomponents of Ezchip and helps in logging by enabling corresponding bits
Education
Anna University Chennai
Master of Computer Applications - MCA
University of Madras