Sridevi H
Bangalore, Karnataka Email me on Indeed: indeed.com/r/sridevi-H/63703b24aaaa54e4
To further my career with a growth-oriented firm that will allow me to utilize my experience and
knowledge as a Technical /Project Lead.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Principal System Engineer
Aricent Technologies
Infosys
Technical Lead
EDUCATION
M.S in Software Systems
BITS Pilani - Pilani, Rajasthan
B.E. in Computer Science
Board of Technical Education
SKILLS
Networking/Platform/Drivers/Vxworks
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Key Strengths
Over 15 years of experience in Ethernet Data Communication Technology Ethernet Routing
Switches, Metro Ethernet Routing Switches, Platform and Wireless
Good knowledge of Real Time operating Systems (Vxworks) and Drivers
Highly skilled in performing analytical and logic building functions to provide feasible solutions
to problems
Brilliant interpersonal coordination and communication skills
Competent at leading, managing and training teams on different aspects of data
communication systems
Technical Skill Set
SYSTEMS WORKED ON Data communication -Multi Service Transport Network Controller Cards,
Ethernet Routing Switch,
DOMAIN KNOWLEGDE
Enterprise Router -L2, L3 protocols (MLT, LACP, BGP, STP, SMLT, SLPP, Provider Bridge, IPFIX,
VRF, RSP Fastpath)
Platform -Task Architecture, Logging, File System, Debugging tools, Crash analysis, Chassis
Management
Wireless- 802.11 Split AP Architecture, WMM 802.11 E
OPERATING SYSTEMS and LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY/HARDWARE PLATFORM Programming/
Library/Platform - C, Visual Basics, Unix, RTOS-VxWorks, Windows, Power PC based processor,
TOOLS
clarify, clearcase, Source Insight, Network Traffic Simulators like IXIA, Smart Bits, Network
Protocol Analyzers like Ethereal and Wireshark.
DATABSE Oracle, MS Access, MySQL
REWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
Spot Awards, Program Level Awards Infosys, Aricent
Individual Excellence Award 2010 Infosys
Leadership Quotient Award 2014 Aricent
Client Appreciation Award 2016 Aricent
Engineering Excellence Award 2016 Cisco
SOFT SKILLS
Soft skill trained and certified in the areas like Interpersonal Effectiveness, Client Interfacing
Skills, Cross Cultural Skills,
& Team Management
Projects Handled in Aricent
Project 01: TNC Controller card for MSPP and MSTP Optical network
Duration: From Date: Nov 2014 to till date
Designation: Principal System Engineer
Client: Cisco
Role:
1. Design and Development of Network Driver/Pseudo Network Driver for new controller card with
Broadcom SDK integration and Driver Implementation Tasks include Driver design for new Chip,
Broadcom SDK compilation in Vxworks, Integration and Writing driver using Broadcom SDK.
2. Design and Development of Broadcom Mini Driver Kit Integration in new controller card
3. Design and Development of Features like GDT, ANSI-ETSI on Multishelf
4. Front ending the Different Releases
5. Technical Guidance and Backlog Reduction Activities
6. Solving Critical Customer issues
Few examples of critical issues solved in the TNC which fetched client appreciations
Flash Mgr Stuck issue
UsbMgr Stuck issue
Silent Reboot caused in the standby controller
Ipv6 connectivity failure every 2-3 hours
Arp6show causing crash in telnet session
7. Client interaction and customer network/Test Team Network debugging
8. Mentoring the team
Project 02: VSM IPSec for ASR9K
Duration: From Date: Feb 2013 to Oct 2014
Designation: Senior Technical Lead
Client: Cisco
Support for IPsec on ASR9K routers. VSM Service module is extended to support IPSec Service
on ASR9K. In order to achieve the Time to market, in the first phase IPSec management, control
and data plane are not integrated with IOS-XR. VSM card while plugged inside ASR9K chassis,
will provide the IPSec functionality. From an ingress LC, traffic requiring IPSec functionality
(encryption or decryption) will be sent to VSM card. Upon completing the crypto operation, traffic
will be forwarded to the destination egress LC to be sent out of ASR9K system.
Role:
1. Initial Sessions for the team members on overall architecture
2. Coordinating with team members and technical help to the team
3. Initial investigation using Intel DPDK compilation, launch VMs etc.
4. Initial investigation on High Availability Design
5.
Design/Development of Keep alive functionality between Control plane and Data plane agents
6. Design/Development of integrating CDP in Control Plane
7. Design/Development of having CDP in the Linux Data plane
Prior Experience Outside Aricent
Company worked for: INFOSYS LIMITED
Duration: From Date: 03 Sep 2007 To Date: 2 Jan 2013
Designation: Technology Lead
Product: MERS and ERS Routers
client: Avaya
Project 01: Ethernet Routing Switch North American OEM
The Ethernet Routing Switch is a proven, tested, resilient intelligent network solution that scales,
delivering hundreds of Gigabits per second and hundreds of millions of packets per second of
performance to the core. This flexible switch reduces the complexity of network design, making
it ideal for midsize-to-large enterprise campuses and data centers. Its switching architecture is
based on Network Processing Units (NPU)
This project aims at design, development and sustenance of Enterprise Routers.
Responsibilities/Activities
Bug Fixing and crash analysis in area of Routing and system architecture
Trouble Shooting the live customer network to understand the issue provide work around and
collect data
As Sustenance team member and lead resolved/supervised critical customer and design issues.
Critical customer issues in Area of Vxworks Stack, SSH, STP
device drivers, BGP protocol, MLT, LACP, CFM
Some good issues solved in different areas of the product which are in memory are
Solving tftp hang issue in Vxworks Stack
Providing task delete hook for the graceful task deletion for SSH Hang issue
Solving BGP indirect neighbor issue by trouble shooting live customer network
Providing analysis and solution to a non-reproducible SSH hang issue
Providing analysis on inter-op issue with proprietary IO card with CISCO
Fix for CF card crash issue
Quick solution provided in RSP Code for handling traffic on STP blocked port for IP Traffic.
Provided design/technical inputs for feature development "Sys log Support through SSH
ortforwarding
Supervised feature "Federal IA Library" design and implementation
Maintain and setting up of scaled up stability network to verify the Stability of the product
Training and mentoring new personnel in the project
Review of Designs, Enhancements & Major Bug Fixes.
-Provided Code /Design Review comments and testing guidance and testing scenarios.
Design Support to Product Test teams for newly developed features.
Design and Development of enhancements.
As a lead involved in tracking deliverables, estimation, status reporting (to the customer),
productivity and quality tracking.
Additionally providing consultation to test team in their deliverables
Ensuring high quality of deliverables through reviews and defect prevention.
Project 02: Metro Ethernet Routing Switch North American OEM
Responsibilities/Activities
Worked in the various capacities -Technical Lead, Designer,
Resolving Critical customer issues in quick turnaround time
Driving the sustenance team size of 10 by providing the technical assistance and necessary
sessions and trainings in turn increase the productivity of the team
Conducting weekly bug-scrub meetings to ensure the work in track
One of the key code reviewers in the program to ensure the proper quality of the product
delivered.
Defect analysis, Knowledge management are the other key responsibilities
Training and mentoring new personnel in the project.
Company worked for: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES
Duration: From Date: 07 Jun 2004 To Date: 18 May 2007