# Somen Bhattacharya

> Principal Software Engineer at IP Infusion

Location: Santa Clara, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/somenbhattacharya

Experienced telecommunication software professional with a broad experience in high speed switching technology and embedded software design/development. Domain expertise :-
o Routing Protocols (OSPF, ISIS, DECNET, BGP, IGMP, MLDv2, PIM, MSDP, RMTP, VRRP)
o MPLS Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE, Fast Rerouting, GMPLS, DiffServ-TE, Bandwidth Allocation Algorithms, Inter-Area/Inter-Domain TE, Path Computation Algorithms)
o L2/L3-VPN (MPLS-LDP, Pseudoware, VPLS, MPLS-TP, MPLS-BGP-VPN)
o) Optical Networking (SONET/SDH, DWDM, ASON, OIF-UNI, E-NNI Signaling, E-NNI-OSPF Routing, RWA)
o) Broadband Networking (ATM UNI/P-NNI Signaling, ATM-Traffic Management, FR-PVC, FR-ATM)
o) Metro-Ethernet (VLAN, PB, PBB, PBB-TE, E-LINE, E-LAN, RSTP, MSTP Bridging)
o) Data Center Switch Architecture design
o) Data Center Networking (DCB PFC, QCN, ETS, VEPA, TRILL, OpenFlow, Network/Server Virtualization)
o) Mobile/Wireless Networking (IEEE 802.11, CAPWAP, Mobile Backhaul/IEEE 1588v2-PTP, 3GPP/3GPP2, CDMA2000 (EUTRAN, HRPD), HSDPA, LTE/LTE+, WiMax)
o) H/W Packet Forwarding (IPv4/IPv6, MPLS-FRR, MPLS-TP, VPLS, IPv4/IPV6 Tunneling, ECMP, MAC-in-MAC, ITU-T Y.1731 OAM, TRILL)
o) IP/MPLS Prefix Matching Algorithms (CPE-TRIE, LPC-TRIE, Routing/Forwarding Table Management)
o) HQoS (Metering, Policing, Traffic Shaping, DiffServ, Scheduling, WRED, ACL, Link Aggregation, Load Balancing)
o) Network Management (SNMPv2/V3, HTTP, SOA, SOAP/XML, Middleware, CORBA-IDL)
o) Platforms (Intel Pentium, Intel-I7, ARM, MIPS32/64, PPC750, Broadcom Packet Processors/Switching Chips, DUNE's TM and Fabric Chips)
o) S/W (Unix, Linux, VxWorks, Broadcom SDK, C/C++, STL, Design Patterns, TCL/TK, Python)

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ IP Infusion
Jan 2021 – Present | Santa Clara County, California, United States

### Principal Software Engineer @ Brocade/Ruckus/Arris/CommScope
Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 | Sunnyvale, CA

### Principal Software Engineer @ Ciena
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Principal Engineer @ Extreme Networks
Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 | Santa Clara, CA

### Senior Principal Software Engineer @ Avici Systems/Soapstone Networks
Jan 2004 – Jan 2009 | Billerica, MA

### Member Technical Staff @ ELEMATICS INC.
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004 | Beaverton, OR

### Member Technical Staff @ CELOX NETWORKS INC.
Jan 2000 – Jan 2002 | St. Louis, MO & Southborough, MA

### Project Manager @ HCL Technologies (Cisco ODC)
Jan 1998 – Jan 1999 | Chennai Area, India

### Principal Engineer @ Future Software Limited
Jan 1989 – Jan 1998


## Education
### Master of Technology in Computer Science
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras

### Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/somenbhattacharya8ckm367

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Last updated: 2026-04-12