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title: "Mahesh Dantakale - Principal Software Designer in Greater Bengaluru Area | Tal"
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# Mahesh Dantakale on Tal

## Headline

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

claude code

claude

github copilot

n8n

openai

Microsoft Copilot

## 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

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