Krishna Gopal

Around 18 years of experience in Switching, Routing Products and AGI Infrastructure. Career in Networking companies include Extreme Networks India, Aruba Networks India, Juniper Networks India and Celestica Inc.

Experience in all aspects of software development cycle from initial Product requirement phase through Functional design, Testing, Documentation, Beta, Deployment Guidelines, POC, Customer Escalations, Sales and Marketing Support.

Worked on introducing and leading the adoption of standards and best practices across the entire project life cycle with regulatory and ISO requirements.

Experience in Training SEs, Customers and Partners by understanding the deployment use case with focus on key advantage point of the solution provided.

Open to Travel for work

• Worked on various networking vendor platforms from Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Extreme, Avaya, Brocade, Dell, Celestica, Enterasys and Aruba etc.
• Technology: LLMs, GPUs, ROCm, L2, L3, L4, Security, Telemetry, Analytics and Platform: AI Rack Solutions, Network Gears(Broadcom and Native ASIC based) along with infrastructure like NMS and Cloud and Networking protocols like RSTP, MSTP, CDP, LLDP, IGMP, G.8032, 802.1BR, MACsec, OSPF, BGP etc.
• Verification: Conformance, Functional, Regression, Integration, Smoke, Interop, Scalability, Performance, Usability, Stress and System.
• Customer Escalations and PoC: Worked on Brownout and Blackout field issues and did PoCs for some of the Brownfield and Greenfield Deployment.
• Sales and Marketing Support: Prepared Battle cards for Sales and Supported Marketing with the Advantage point for the product and Worked with Engineering to make sure that product maintains and show the competitive advantage point in field and third-party certifications.