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My contact email: [email protected]

My Skills, Expertise and Experience:

• Datacom, R&D, and product architecture/development/research
• Systems Software, Linux Kernel Network Stack (Network sub-system, drivers: bridge, vlan, vxlan, tun/tap, veth, etc) and user-space networking
• work closely with CEOs/CTOs/product-architects and assist in complete product life cycle, strategy and so on
• more than a decade of experience in WAN Optimization, Deep-space and Satellite Network technologies
• SDN and Cloud Orchestration, Hypervisor tuning and optimization
• Networking Hardware, OpenWRT customization and ecosystem (EDGE)
• Founded TrafficSqueezer (in the year 2006) an open-source WAN Optimization network stack.
  * TOFFEE (or The TOFFEE Project research) is a fork of TrafficSqueezer. For more details: Why TOFFEE is forked from TrafficSqueezer
• Founded The Linux Channel an Youtube Linux channel for advance Linux users, systems and network software programmers and tech enthusiasts.

• Besides things I am interested and currently engaged on:
  * spiritualism
  * sustainable living
  * researching green technologies, going off-grid, micro-power generation for powering Wireless nodes and satellite/deep-space communication
  * art and music
  

Some of the companies worked/served in the past:

• Cavium, Inc. - semiconductor company based in San Jose, California specializing in ARM-based and MIPS-based network, video and security processors and SoCs.
• MontaVista Software - acquired by Cavium, Inc. leader in embedded Linux commercialization, develops embedded Linux system software, development tools, and related software.
• Doublefish Solutions - an IT enabled services and research firm
• Akamai Technologies, Inc. - world's leading content delivery network (CDN) services provider for media and software delivery, and cloud security solutions.
• TATA ELXSI - an Indian design company and a part of the Tata Group. It provides design and technology services for product engineering and solutions across industries including broadcast, communications, and automotive.
  • Pace plc - a British company who developed set-top boxes, advanced residential gateways, software and services for the pay-TV and broadband services industry. Pace's customers included cable, telco, satellite and IPTV operators. Pace is now a part of ARRIS. ARRIS International plc.
  • Accton Technology Corporation - a company in Taiwan that principally engages in the research, development, manufacture and distribution of Ethernet switches, wireless local area network (WLAN) products and Internet access products.
  • Bivio Networks, Inc. - Award-winning, high-performance Cyber Security Application Platforms for superior network intelligence and cyber defense.
  • World Wide Packets, Inc. - a carrier Ethernet company (in 2008 acquired by Ciena Corporation)
• Comodo Group, Inc - leading SSL Provider offers Free Antivirus, Internet Security, Firewall, Endpoint Security and other PC Security software for Windows & all OS.

Co-author/Editor: Sarees are my passion - an exclusive women's ethnic Indian fashion wear journal