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Principal Software Designer at Aruba (HPE) | WLAN | SD-WAN | Network Security | DPI

About

As a Principal Software Designer at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, I focus on delivering innovative solutions in SD-WAN, Orchestration, Telemetry, Network Security, and Data Center networking. My contributions include designing route orchestration for Aruba cloud-managed access points and serving as the architect for integrating the open-source BIRD routing daemon into Aruba access points. With over 20 years of experience in network software development, I have worked across diverse technologies, including telecommunications, WLAN, Analytics, and SDN. My expertise spans Deep Packet Inspection, DTLS, OpenSSL, complemented by a demonstrated track record in software architecture. My work is guided by a commitment to advancing networking technologies and empowering seamless connectivity solutions.

Location

Greater Bengaluru Area

AI stack

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Work experience

Principal Software Designer at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, Nov 2021 - Present · 4 yrs 11 mos, Bengaluru, SD-WAN, Orchestration, Telemetry, Tunneling, Data Center Networking, DTLS, OpenSSL, FIPS Designed Route Orchestration for Aruba Cloud-Managed Access Points. Architect for porting Opensource BIRD Routing daemon on Aruba Access Points.

Expert Technologist at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company, Jan 2018 - Oct 2021 · 3 yrs 10 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, DTLS, Key Management, L2TP, DPI

Software Architect at Radisys Corporation, Nov 2016 - Dec 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Architect for development of Orchestrated WiFi Solution for a top ISP in Europe. Worked with partner organization to integrate Remote WiFi AP with SDN based orchestration agent. Lead a team of 4 and played the role of scrum master.

Senior Staff Engineer at Zebra Technologies, May 2013 - Nov 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Part of Zebra's WLAN team. 1) Application Visibility and Control (DPI) for Wireless LAN 2) DHCP Fingerprinting, Role based policies, Controller-assisted-mobility, MU credential cache for fast authentication/association. 3) Analytics and Control: Worked on developing WLAN analytics server 4) Social WiFi : Analytics and providing insight into user's preferences based on user's social login like facebook, gplus, twitter, etc

Technical Lead at Sonus Networks, Dec 2009 - May 2013 · 3 yrs 6 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Part of the Platform Development team 1) First member of the Platform development team in Sonus Bangalore. Involved in quick ramp-up from platform team in Westford US. 2) Involved in development of Common High-Availability Middleware platform for Sonus products providing Cluster management, failover, switchover, sync, and configuration management. 3) Developed configuration abstraction layer providing abstraction for CLI, SNMP and NetConf over Conf-D. 4) Device monitoring using OpenHPI/IPMI 5) Porting the platform code to be independently run on different hardware from vendors like SUN, HP, etc.

Software Engineer at Motorola, Oct 2006 - Dec 2009 · 3 yrs 3 mos, Bengaluru Area, India, Part of IP technology team. Involved in a) Porting of SSH/SFTP protocols on VxWorks platform b) AAA - Diameter, Prototyping of EAP-Client for Diameter c) Design/Implementation of Fastpath applications for Edge Service Router

Programmer Analyst at Cognizant, Oct 2005 - Oct 2006 · 1 y, Chennai

Education

BE, Computer Science, PESIT Bangalore

Computer Science, BVVS Polytechnic, Bagalkot