Quality Assurance Software Engineer

K U N T A L ( D A F T A R Y

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SUMMARY

Dynamic business and technology leader specializing in innovation and

productization with a solid release track record. Strategic thinker known for

creating revenue streams by launching new products across multiple market

segments and revitalizing existing programs via focus on operational planning and

reprioritization. Demonstrated ability in building solid relationships with

strategic partners as well as consensus across multiple organizational levels.

Highly varied team management experience with specific focus on building,

coaching and leading high performance teams. Recognized as results-driven and

detail-oriented problem solver with interpersonal and people skills that are

equally effective with customers and partners as with employees.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Generating new revenue streams by introducing new products to market ( Structured

and unstructured NPD ( Product evangelization ( Strategic alliances and

partnership building ( Rescuing and re-vitalizing challenged programs (

Cross-functional, virtual and remote team leadership and management ( Recruiting

and building high performance teams from grounds up ( Employee development (

Product certification ( Process introduction and compliance ( Engineering life

cycle

TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND

Wan Optimization ( Firewalls and Policy Enforcement ( Deep Packet Inspection (

TCP/IP stack and application protocols ( Intrusion Protection and Anomaly

Detection ( Content Filtering ( Anti-malware, Anti-virus and Anti-botnets (

Threat Defense and Mitigation ( UTM ( Data Loss Prevention and Regulatory /

Corporate Compliance ( Vulnerability Management and Risk Analytics ( Embedded

Software Development ( Identity and Access Management ( Service Virtualization

C ( Perl ( Tcl / Tk / Expect ( Unix / Linux / OS X ( Windows ( HTML / XHTML ( XML

/ XSL / SOAP ( Javascript ( AJAX ( JSON ( PHP ( SQL ( Apache ( 802.1x / LDAP /

Identity-awareness ( VOIP / SIP

EXPERIENCE

Manager, Software Development

Cisco Systems, Milpitas, CA

2002 - Present

Managing multiple development teams for portfolio comprising of network

infrastructure, services and security products. Definition and execution of

vision and strategy for multiple concurrent programs. Technology evaluation and

key consultant for investment in new initiatives. Identification of and

collaboration with business partnerships, such as OEM or purchase technology, and

acquisition evaluation. Tighter engagement with pre- and post-sales teams' and

customer support through periodic calls and ongoing training for quicker

turnaround times for resolution of customer cases. Executive briefings.

Successfully created and justified the business case and demonstrated

technological feasibility to integrate intrusion protection technology in a

routing device. Built and trained, both development and quality assurance teams,

from grounds up across San Jose, CA and Boulder, CO. Took ownership of the

program and went on to introduce industry-first router-integrated IPS product to

the market.

Defined vision and strategy for the above program and navigated the roadmap

through three marketing re-organizations. Actively sought and successfully

enabled partnership opportunities within and outside Cisco with focus on

increasing program revenues. The program culminated as one of the largest

deployments of an IPS product with over 250,000 installations and annual revenue

targets of $250 million.

Stepped up to take ownership of existing and mature "crown jewel" firewall

product line when it was in operationally challenged situation - without any

team, major quality issues, without any upgrade releases in over two years, and

unsustainably over-extended code base. Created a "turnaround" operational plan

and built a transition and eventually permanent team from grounds up across San

Jose, CA and Chennai, India that improved quality metrics by 67%. Introduced

active engagement with escalation and field teams through regular meetings that

reduced customer case escalations to minimum levels. Revamped the outdated

roadmap to transition code base to steady and sustainable level - through

surgical pruning and targeted EOL of duplicate functionality and restoring focus

to "bang for buck" items.

Above programs contributed to increase in annual revenues from $100 million to $1

billion in five years.

Took ownership of another program in the area of service virtualization

struggling with delivery and quality issues and team dysfunction. Turned around

the program by addressing team dysfunction and improving operations that resulted

in successful delivery of technology on one platform while exceeding quality

standards. Based on this, successfully evangelized use of the technology in

several other platforms - increasing revenue exposure by $380 million annually.

Salvaged and re-injected technology from cancelled program with flagging team

morale, into two new diverse R&D programs and re-vitalized the team morale.

Actively recruited to triple the team size and led R&D effort to successfully

demonstrate technological feasibility. Established program viability based on

business plan of $200 million in annual revenues by working closely with

marketing, field and partner teams.

Actively contributed, with my team, to Cisco's patent portfolio based on

innovations introduced over several years.

Led the team that was recipient of the "Teamwork across Cisco" award.

Recognized with "Excellent Leadership" award by the company.

Recipient of several awards for exemplary delivery of programs, initiative and

leadership.

Senior Software Engineer

Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA

1997 - 2002

Responsible for architecture, design and development for UTM products like IOS

firewall, intrusion detection, URL filtering and authentication proxy. Active

evangelist for the use of these products. Responsible for developing test plans

and executing on them by developing appropriate test software and harness for

functionality, interoperability, performance and scalability testing.

Single-handedly sustained the product line for over 3 years through quality

improvements, customer support, and performance and scalability improvements.

Created and executed on training and mentoring program to assimilate a new team

of 6 engineers in Boulder, CO in product development. Continued use of this plan

for a team of 5 engineers in Bangalore, India and subsequently in my next

position for two other teams of 9 engineers in Bangalore, India and Chennai,

India. This program found continued use by other managers and senior engineers as

the team grew.

Created one-of-a-kind web-based on-demand regression framework using Perl,

Javascript and relational databases in Oracle, that grew in user base from 30

beta users to adoption by 1000s of users company-wide and still the de-facto

tool-of-choice throughout the company.

Introduced innovative technologies for test code portability and manageability

that amounted to significant savings in test development and test execution

times.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Electrical Engineering (Major: Computer Networking)

Purdue University, IN

Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics Engineering (Major: Computer Engineering)

Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, India

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