Varsha Ajay Kohirkar
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Phone: 650-***-**** E-Mail: ******.********@*****.*** LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/in/varsha-kohirkar-7a38aa83/ Experience
Network Engineer, Zoox August. 2019-present
• Developed a Web tool from scratch for IP/MAC address search in Zoox network using Python and Django.
• Used Arista,Palo Alto Networks and Fortigate REST APIs to get configurations for the IP/MAC address search web tool
• Timely backed up switch configurations using Rancid and crontab on Netops servers on UNIX systems.
• Developed a weathermap using Cacti and collected Netflow traffic using Ntopng/Nprobe for Zoox datacenter network as a part of Network monitoring
• Posted alerts on Slack created using REST APIs and SNMP responses.
• Containerized Cacti, Grafana and Ntopng using Docker for more flexibility and efficiency
• Troubleshooted different Netops issues reported by users
• Configured FreeRadius server on CentOS 7 for MAC authentication of vehicle MAC addresses.
• Automated modifying MYSQL database using python and scheduled MYSQL database backup using expect and shell script.
• Created graphs for monitoring network parameters on Grafana using Graphite and InfluxDB.
• CCNA certified and working on Docker certification. Student Assistant Sept. 2018-May-2019
• Assisting in research of Secure Routing Protocols for IoT Networks.
• Implemented network attacks such as Blackhole attack, Sinkhole attack on IoT networks using Cooja Simulator.
• Created labs for undergraduate students to simulate Wireless Sensor Networks. Network Engineer Intern, SAP Fieldglass. June 2018-Aug. 2018
• Automated process of network configuration in Powershell and Python to streamline network device management.
• Perform static and dynamic routing virtually on CISCO GNS3 software to increase network management capabilities and observability.
Education
San Jose State University Aug. 2017-May 2019
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
GPA: 3.5/4.0
Courses: Internetworking, Network Security, Voice Over IP, Probability and Stochastic Processes, Linear Systems
(Digital Signal Processing), Wireless and Broadband Communications Academic Projects
Firewall Nov. 2017-Nov. 2017
• Created a firewall in python using nfqueue and scapy library.
• Filtered packets based on IP address, protocol and port numbers. Efficient Resource Allocation for Elastic Optical Networks using New Algorithm (IEEE paper) Sept. 2018-May 2019
• Implemented Virtual Optical networks mapping using first fit algorithm in python.
• Devised new algorithm to efficiently map virtual optical network topology to a physical network
• Submitted IEEE paper for new devised algorithm . Skills
• Languages: Python, Powershell
• Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP, RIP)
• Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
• Networking concepts: Sub netting, Ethernet, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, HTTP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, ICMP, IGMP, TCP/IP, UDP, IPSec, VLAN, MPLS.
• Tools: PyCharm, Eclipse, Visual Studio, MATLAB, Wireshark, DeltaV, Putty, Postman, Cisco Packer Tracer, Docker, Rancid, Solarwinds, Cacti, Grafana, Ntopng/Nprobe, Mysql,Graphite 2