# vasanthakumar shanmugam

> Staff Engineer at VMware(NSX Security) | Next-Gen Firewall | Virtualization | Automation | Agile | IDPS | Networking | Project Management

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

Technical experience in Virtualization and NGFW technologies, System Testing, Feature Integration Testing, Scalability Testing,  Interop Testing, Acceptance Testing, Solutions Testing,Cross-functional Testing on Networking. Have a lead the projects and delivered successfully.

Specialized in L2,L3, virtualization and security technologies as below
     => NSX Micro-segmentation, L2-L7 Network Virtualization and Security Technologies (IDPS,Application firewall, Behavioral IDPS(zero day threats).
     => VLAN (802.1q) – QinQ (802.1ad).
     => VPN Technologies: Ethernet VPN, VPLS and L3VPN.
     => STP (802.1d) – RSTP (802.1w).
     => MPLS: MPLS-TP, MPLS-TE (RSVP-TE, LDP).
     => Quality of Service (QoS), LACP based Link Aggregation (based on IEEE 802.3ad),
     => OAM Protocols: Link OAM (based on IEEE 802.3ah) & CFM (based on IEEE 802.1ag & Y.1731), BFD.
     => Ethernet Service Protection (based on ITU-T Y.1342/G.8031), Ethernet over SONET.
     => BGP and OSPF.
     =>Remote Inband Management Testing, Denial of Service Testing (Dos Attack).
     => Port mirroring, Software Upgrade Testing (ISSU).
     
Also expertise in areas of  SONET (GR-253)
     => FFP, UPSR, Performance Monitoring, Bundling, SDCC. 

Expertised in Automation through script languages like TCL,PERL,EXPECT and PYTHON.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2016 – Present | Palo Alto, California

### Technical Lead @ Ericsson
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
Part of cross functional team which is using Agile methodologies for software development.
Lead the EVPN testing effort.
Responsibilities in this position are Requirement Analysis, Testcase Design,Testcase Automation and Testcase execution.
Performed role as scrum master.
worked on Ethernet VPN which uses BGP, MPLS and Bridging.

### Solutions Architect Team Lead @ Ciena
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Part of Solutions Testing Team.
Responsibilites in this position are Requirement analysis, Testcase design, Testcase writing, Testcase Automation and Testcase Execution.
Lead the MPLS-TP solution testing effort.

### Senior Engineer @ Tellabs
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Part of Systems and solutions Testing Team.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Wipro Technologies
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012
Responsibilites in this position are Testcase design,Testcase writing,Testcase Automation and Testcase Execution.
Lead the testing efforts for many features like Link Aggregation, CFM based on Y.1731 and G.8031

### System Verification Tester @ Fujitsu Network Communications
Jan 2007 – Jan 2012 | Pearl River, NY
Responsibilites in this position are Testcase design,Testcase writing,Testcase Automation and Testcase Execution.


## Education
### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Electronics and Insturmentation Engineering
Anna University Chennai


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/vasanthakumar
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/vasanthakumar/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-12