Saikumar Yarava
Bangalore
Summary
Engineering professional with over 15 years of experience in Telecom and Networking, specializing in Go, Python, and C. Expertise in designing and developing Network components, with practical skills in containerization using Docker, Kubernetes. Proficient in automating cloud infrastructure deployments for network workloads, including NGFW and VPN, across various Intel platforms, while generating performance benchmarking data for clients. Gained a good understanding on Performance tuning on different intel platforms.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Cloud Software Development Engineer
Intel Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
Bengalure
11.2021 - Current
- Designed and developed Multi-Cloud Network Automation Toolkit (MCNAT) for efficient workload deployment across cloud platforms.
- Executed end-to-end deployment and benchmarking of workloads on both virtual machines and bare-metal platforms.
- Utilized Python, Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and AWS Cloud Fundamentals for automation processes.
- Led deployment of Next-Gen Firewall workload to evaluate HTTP/HTTPS performance on various Intel platforms.
- Employed Vector Packet Processing as a network stack alongside Snort for intrusion detection and prevention.
- Implemented WRK as a traffic generator and NGINX as a web server for performance metrics.
- Spearheaded deployment of Kubernetes framework on AWS cloud for comprehensive performance benchmarking.
R&D Specialist
Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
10.2020 - 10.2021
- Designed critical features in the platform for IP Multimedia Services (IMS), like local and geo-redundancy for configuration management.
- Now, I am working on a containerization solution for IMS using Kubernetes.
- Played a big part in migrating the Configuration Management Repository (CMRepo) to a virtualized environment and later to a containerized environment.
- Skills: Go programming, Python, Shell, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm.
Scrum Master
Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
07.2017 - 10.2020
- Handled a critical functionality called configuration management(CM) for IP multimedia services(IMS) as a scrum master
- Managed a team of 8 engineers in delivering the features on top of Configuration managements.
- Assessed each scrum team member's responsibilities and delegated tasks to balance each employee's workload.
- Applied agile methodology to shorten cycle time and achieve target margins.
- Followed Scaled Agile( SAFe) principles in delivering features
- Skills: Go Language, Shell Scripting, Basic Python
- Database: Redis
- OS: Linux Environment on VM and Baremetal
Senior Software Engineer
Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
05.2015 - 07.2017
- Handled a critical functionality called configuration management in IP multimedia services(IMS)
- Learned Go language in a short period of time and developed critical features like High Availability, FileStore management in Go
- Mentored new joiners and freshers in understanding the product
- Skills : Golang(Go language), Shell scripting, Linux, VMs.
Senior Software Engineer
Sasken Communication technology Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
07.2013 - 05.2015
- IP service manager will split/assemble the packets based on signaling and traffic frames on both uplink and downlinks.
- Worked on C programming for Real time operating systems(RTOS)
- Skills: C programming, Data structures
Software Engineer
Sasken Communication Technology Pvt. Ltd
Bangalore
05.2010 - 07.2013
- Developed a push notification mechanism using IMAP Idle protocol on a NucleosOS used on Satellite phone
- Worked on C programming on real time operating systems(RTOS)
- Skills: C programming, Data structures OS: Linux, Solaris.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Rural Engineering College
Bhalki2009
Skills
- Programming languages: C, Python, Go
- Scripting languages: Python, Shell
- Operating systems: Linux
- Containerization tools: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm
- Version control systems: Gerrit, GitHub
- IDEs: VS Code
- Cloud deployment: Terraform, Ansible, Packer
- CSP: AWS, GCP
- Dataplane networking: DPDK, VPP
Accomplishments
- Received multiple appritiations from executive level and also from Customers for qualitity of the product and timely deliverable
- Received a Dev Expert of CMRepo certificate in first 5 months of joining in Nokia.
- Received "GoTo person" award for any technical queries in the team
- Received Celebrating performance Award for excellent performance for last two consecutive years.
- Received multiple spot awards in beginning of my professional career
Interests
- Playing and watching cricket
- Regular follow-up on new technologies
- My new interest is in the AI evolution and capabilities
- Building a logAnalyser agent using AI capabilities to same time for the developer is analysing logs.
Timeline
Cloud Software Development Engineer
Intel Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
11.2021 - Current
R&D Specialist
Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt. Ltd
10.2020 - 10.2021
Scrum Master
Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt. Ltd
07.2017 - 10.2020
Senior Software Engineer
Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt. Ltd
05.2015 - 07.2017
Senior Software Engineer
Sasken Communication technology Pvt. Ltd
07.2013 - 05.2015
Software Engineer
Sasken Communication Technology Pvt. Ltd
05.2010 - 07.2013
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Rural Engineering College
Similar Profiles
Salil MathachanSalil Mathachan
Platform Hardware Design Engineering Manager at INTEL Technologies Pvt. Ltd.Platform Hardware Design Engineering Manager at INTEL Technologies Pvt. Ltd.
SUMAN K PSUMAN K P
System Validation Engineer at Intel Technologies Pvt. India LtdSystem Validation Engineer at Intel Technologies Pvt. India Ltd
Asina P KAsina P K
Silicon Domain Architect at Intel Technologies PVT LTDSilicon Domain Architect at Intel Technologies PVT LTD
Sijith VJSijith VJ
Principal Software Engineer at OraclePrincipal Software Engineer at Oracle
Sreeram TRSreeram TR
Catalog Manager at AmazonCatalog Manager at Amazon