Engineering Project Management

Vijay H. Kachinthaya

********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/vijaykachinthaya 408-***-****

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING PROFESSIONAL

An accomplished, hands-on technical leader with extensive experience in leading global engineering teams in design, development and testing of networking software.

Extensive project management experience with consistent track record of successfully planning and delivering routing features on multiple platforms and software releases.

Led the Agile Scrum transformation of cross functional development teams across geographies.

Directed complex projects from concept to fully operational status.

Fostered collaboration across global teams promoting innovation, coaching, mentoring, negotiation and conflict resolution.

Hands-on, organized, highly motivated, and detail-directed problem solver.

Networking Technologies: IGPs, BGP, MPLS, RSVP, OpenFlow, PCEP, BGP-LS, DHCP, DNS, Multicast, L3VPN, BNG, SDN, PBX ISDN T1, VOIP.

EXPERIENCE

Software Engineering Consultant at Stealth startup 2017 – Present

Brought into startup to formalize software development lifecycle, but the role quickly expanded to grow the offshore team from 6 to 11 software development engineers, adopt agile methodology, focused quality initiatives, implemented changes to product testing, release criteria, test coverage, customer-use case testing. ERICSSON

Software Engineering Manager, San Jose, CA 2014 – 2016

Spearheaded the modularization of IPOS Routing software that enabled seamless portability to various Ericsson platforms - SSR, R6672, R8801, EVR (Ericsson Virtual Router) and next generation radio devices.

Enabled scaling of IPOS from one platform with ~$150M revenue in Jan’2014 to five platforms with $1B+ revenue.

Led IPOS Routing organizational transformation toward Lean and Agile Scrum ways of working, and GIT, Gerrit and Jenkins driven Continuous Integration (CI) - developed IPOS Routing features using the Ericsson virtualized VMware cluster based test environment - SSR-SIM and IPOS-ref and delivered in rapid shipping cycles.

Directed highly motivated cross functional teams including Developers and Test Engineers - working on BGP, ISIS, OSPF, RSVP, CSPF, OpenFlow, PCEP, BGP-LS protocols across geographies.

Led the design, development and testing of Segment Routing - across ISIS, SR-infra, BGP-LS, PCEP modules.

Led the development of key BGP features - BGP Enhanced Route Refresh, BGP NSR and BGP EVPN on Ericsson’s IPOS releases.

CISCO

Software Engineering Manager, San Jose, CA; Bangalore, India 2010 – 2014

Led the highly productive IOS-XR multicast Routing team in San Jose, XR Unicast Routing team and DHCP, DNS

(across IOS, XR and NXOS platforms) team in Bangalore India.

Delivered Multicast NSR ISSU on IOS XR and NCS6k platforms.

Seeded the ISIS team with talented Engineers. Delivered tactical and strategic ISIS features, such as ISIS Remote LFA (rLFA).

Close interlock with Product Management teams, Customer account teams, Release Engineering teams, Development Test community, Cross Functional BUs and Customers.

Release lead (PoC) for the India team for couple of releases. Vijay H. Kachinthaya

********@*****.*** www.linkedin.com/in/vijaykachinthaya 408-***-**** Technical Leader, Boxborough, MA 2006 – 2010

Led the design and implementation of MPLS-TP (MPLS Transport Profile) that addresses NGN transport needs for high bandwidth packet switched network with lower cost.

Go to person for MPLS-VPN solution queries/deployments, with the final responsibility for solving the complex customer-found issues from major service provider located around the world including AT&T, Verizon, NTT, DT and BT amongst others.

Lead role in 6VPE development. Led the transition of 6VPE code ownership from IPv6 team in UK.

Liaison to various cross functional teams (MPLS Forwarding, Routing Infra, CEF, IPv6) and platform teams

(7600/6500, C10K, ASR-1k). Successfully guided the team members to achieve organization quality goals.

Led the tools improvement effort by providing constructive feedback, maintained a resourceful team web page with technical and lab information.

Instrumental in getting TL-9000 certification by participating in audits. Senior Software Engineer, Boxborough, MA; Manchester NH 1998 – 2006

Successfully delivered MPLS-VPN scalable solutions - Per-VRF aggregate label, Per-VRF label, Per-CE label, on various Cisco platforms - 7200/7600/6500/ASR-1000.

Designed and developed the MPLS security features - MPLS-VPN label security, Label Consistency Checker.

Designed and developed VRF Fallback feature that enhances scalability (avoid replicating all the "normal" internet paths in each VRF).

Designed and developed configurable ISDN protocol stack on Virtual Central Office (VCO/4k) for multiple PBX ISDN T1 variants - National ISDN (NI), QSIG, network side functionalities of EURO (NET5), and Japanese ISDN

(NTT)). This stack ran as a VxWorks application.

Enhanced the PBX ISDN T1 stack to address the areas of call through put, maintainability and reliability. This work resulted in a functionally configurable ISDN stack design with two patents. EDUCATION

Master's Certificate in Project Management - The George Washington University School of Business. Master of Science in Computer Science, Boston University, Boston, MA. Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation Technology, SJCE, Mysore University, Mysore, India. PATENTS AND AWARDS

Recipient of two US patents - US7039703 and US7072356. Patent Pending - “Method and System to speed up flow routing in SDN network” (application # 15/008417). Awarded 2nd Rank in Bachelor of Engineering in Instrumentation Technology, Mysore University. COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

Silicon Valley Young Coders Club, Livermore, CA - volunteer. Community Connection at Cisco India partnership with Children’s Lovecastles Trust - volunteer. Cisco Citizen - volunteer.

Cisco ICON-NE, Boston, MA - volunteer.

Shishu Bharati School, Boston, MA - volunteer.

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