NIKUNJ RATHI
Staff Engineer
Bangalore,Karnataka
Summary
Experienced software engineer with over 13 years of experience in Networking and Application delivery domains. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving product quality. A good team player, with experience in managing small teams.
Overview
1
1
Certification
4
4
years of post-secondary education
13
13
years of professional experience
Work History
Staff Engineer
VMware (Avi Networks acquired by VMware)
Bangalore, Karnataka
05.2017 - Current
- Lead System Testing effort for testing Avi' Loadbalancer in Kubernetes/Openshift environments.
- Automation in Python
- System test Framework development
- Extensive testing and debugging skills
- Extensive knowledge of LoadBalancing features, GSLB
- Extensive knowledge of Kubernetes/Openshift environments
- Extensive knowledge of LoadBalancing in a kubernetes environment - Ingress Controllers, L4 Loadbalancers
- Fair understanding of docker, CNI
- Fair understanding of working on a distributed architecture product.
- Fair understanding of Scale, Stress and Performance testing.
- Awareness on various public cloud technologies
- Awareness on VMware vsphere
- Python Automation experience on Avi Loadbalancer CRUDs, Kubernetes/Openshift CRUDs, Azure VM/Network CRUDs
- Wrote multi-threaded python code to scale test simultaneously on multiple different kubernetes clusters
- Little awareness on Infrastructure management tools - Terraform
- Github for Source Code Management
- Jira for Agile workflow
- Drive innovation - participate and improve team participation for innovation/hackathon events at VMware
Staff Software Test Engineer
Citrix
Bangalore, Karnataka
08.2014 - 04.2017
- Feature testing of NetScaler Gateway product
- Testing and automation of Unified Gateway feature which includes interoperability between Citrix’s SSL-VPN, LoadBalancing, Content Switching and Authentication modules. This feature provides single access point for all the above services and enables single sign-on between all of them.
- Testing and automation of Multi-factor authentication for SSL-VPN Gateway. With this feature admins can configure different authentication factors for users based on a large number of criteria. Admins can also customize the login form for different users.
- Worked on Customer PoCs
- Automation in Perl
- Developed understanding of HTTP, Web Servers, HTTP based authentication techniques
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
07.2008 - 08.2014
- Worked as a Dev-test engineer
- Worked on feature testing of various L2 and L3 protocols
- Automation using TCL
- Customer cases
Security Engineer
Paladion Networks Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore, Karnataka
01.2008 - 07.2008
- Application security testing
- Penetration testing
- Security audits
Education
B.E - Electronics and Communication
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
Gwalior 06.2003 - 06.2007
HSSC -
Central Academy
Kota 07.2002 - 01.2003
Skills
Kubernetes
Certification
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
Github
https://github.com/rathinikunj
Timeline
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
11-2020
Staff Engineer
VMware (Avi Networks acquired by VMware)
05.2017 - Current
Staff Software Test Engineer
Citrix
08.2014 - 04.2017
Software Engineer
Cisco Systems India Pvt. Ltd
07.2008 - 08.2014
Security Engineer
Paladion Networks Pvt. Ltd
01.2008 - 07.2008
B.E - Electronics and Communication
Rajiv Gandhi Technical University
06.2003 - 06.2007
HSSC -
Central Academy
07.2002 - 01.2003
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