Neelakandan Prasad Nurani

             

 

                                                                               

Summary of experience:

·         Over 12  years of professional experience in software Design and development. With 4 years of experience in VoIP domain and 2 years in Networking Protocols and 1 year in Wireless domain mostly in C, C++ Linux, and VxWorks.

·         Extensive experience in all phases of Software Development cycle which include Requirement analysis, Designing, Development, unit testing, integration, integration testing and maintenance.

·         Excellent analysis and communication skills with ability to adapt to diverse programming languages/operating systems/ environments.

 

·         Possess excellent Analytical Skills and problem solving capabilities. Focused on customer requirements, schedules and delivering high quality products.

 

·         Able to work in fast paced, results oriented environment consistently delivering high quality work

 

·         Experience in developing Multi-threaded and Client/Server applications.

 

·         Experience in Socket Programming and system programming.

 

·         Ability to perform development tasks with minimal supervision

·         Currently working as  Software Engineer at ShoreTel

·         Worked as consultant at Ericsson, Boulder, in Ericsson’s AXE switch lab.

·         Worked as Lead Engineer in the design and development team for Samsung IP switch, Bangalore, India and worked on Routing Protocol RIP ng.

 

·         Worked as Project Leader in Larsen & Toubro Infotech Limited, Bangalore, India and worked for Navini Networks (Dallas, Texas) as team lead for Navini’s WiMax (IEEE 802.16) based CPE and
BTS development team. 

·         Worked as a software engineer in Tata Elxsi Limited, Bangalore, India and worked for LifeSize communication (Austin, Texas) in Lifesize’s IP based Video Conferencing design and development team.

·         Was part of the Design and Development team of networking protocols like DHCP, ARP, TCP/IP and ICMP at Multitech Software Systems.

·         Experienced in software design , development  of  VoIP Videoconferencing Endpoints and IP – ISDN VoIP Videoconferencing Gateways

·         Experienced in Configuring and setting up the IP – ISDN VoIP Video conferencing Gateways and Endpoints

·         Worked on VoIP Media Protocols: RTP, RTCP, DTMF, FAX (T.38)

·         Worked on VOIP Signaling Protocol: SIP

·         Have exposure to SSH Protocols.

·         Experienced in Software Design and development of Management interface like Command Line Interfaces, Raising alarms for VoIP products.

·         Experienced in setup and configuring Samsung IP Switches.

·         Experienced in Software Design and development of Layer 2 of WiMax based CPEs and Layer 3 Protocols like Proxy DHCP, Proxy ARP, and Ethernet Bridging for WiMax based BS.

·         Experienced in Routing Protocols RIP and RIP ng.

·         Experienced in handling Customer issues.

·         Experienced in C/C++.

·         Experienced in Linux Operating system and RTOS VxWorks.

 

Skill Set

 

·         UNIX System Programming: Process Control, Signal Handling, POSIX/System V Message       Queues, POSIX/System V Semaphores, POSIX/System V Shared Memory, Pipes/FIFO, Multithreaded Programming with pthreads.

·         Network programming: TCP/IP Programming with Sockets API.

·         Network Protocols: ARP, ICMP, UDP, TCP/IP, DHCP, Proxy DHCP, Proxy ARP, RIP, SSH

·         Telecom Protocols : RTP,PCRF,H.323.SIP,SDP,RTCP

·         Operating System : Linux

·         Real Time Operating System : VxWorks

·         Wireless Protocols : 802.16

·         Data Structures, Algorithms

·         Programming Languages: C/C++

·         Software Design tools: Rational Rose

·         Development/Debugging Tools: Metro works Code Warrior, Ether Peek, Ethereal, GDB,

      d-malloc, efence,TI  Code composer

 

Education

            Bachelor of Technology in Computer Engineering from Cochin University of Science and Technology.

                     

Professional Experience

 

ShoreTel, Austin, Texas                                                                                                                            Oct ‘08- till date

 

Software Engineer

     Working as Software Engineer in Switch team of ShoreTel.  Working in ShoreTel Voice switches, Conference Bridges. 

 

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in the design and development the ShoreTel (ShoreSIP,  derived from SIP protocol and LSP) propriety protocols.

·         Involved in the design and implementation of call features like Hunt group call, Simulring call, T.38 faxing.

·         Implemented the code in C in Linux and Vxworks environment.

·         Implemented state machines in C.

·         Implemented test automation code in C. 

·         Involved in  all the software development cycle including requirement analysis, designing, implementation, writing test request plans, unit testing, integration, integration testing.

·         Worked in call control involving protocols like SIP, ISDN and Media layer protocol like RTP, RTCP, DTMF, FAX, MODEMS.

·         Worked closely with Technical Support engineers and helped them to identify the issue quickly and provide workaround so that customer’s business won’t get affected.

·         Analyzed the logs provided by customer to find the root cause and call scenario which caused the issue.

·         Replicate the customer issue in house and debug the issue and provide a solution or fix in a timely manner.

·         Work with testing team  by providing test plans to make sure the fix works properly and doesn’t introduce new issue

Environment:

·         C, Linux, VxWorks, SIP, ShorTel Proprietary Protocol, RTP,  RTCP, T.38 (Fax), DTMF, ISDN, DHCP, MGCP, Device Drivers, TCP/IP, ICMP, ARP, DSP (Digital Signal Processing).

 

 

Ericsson, Boulder, USA                                                                                                                            Jun ‘07- Sep 08

 

Software Engineer

     Worked as Software Engineer in Ericsson AXE switch lab and was working on the design and development of soft side switching of AXE switches.

Responsibilities:

·         Participated in the feasibility study of Soft side switch for AXE switches.

·         Involved in the design, development and testing of Soft side switching software for AXE switches.

·         Implemented the code in C++ in Linux environment

·         Participated in unit testing and in writing integration test plan.

·         Participated in integration testing of the Soft side switch software.

 

Environment:

·         C++, Linux

 

 

Samsung  India Software Operation, Bangalore, India                                                                    Jul ‘06- May 07

 

Lead Engineer

             

              Worked as Lead Engineer for the Samsung’s Telecom and Network Division and was working on the design and development of wireless and routing protocols for Samsung IMS infrastructure and IP Switches.

 

Responsibilities:

·         Involved in the requirement analysis, design and implementation of RIP ng Protocol redundancy support for Samsung IP switches.

·         The implementation was done using C in Linux environment.

·         Participated in unit testing and bug fixing for RIP ng Protocol redundancy support.

·         Also participated in the architectural design and implementation of LTE MAC. The implementation was done using C in Linux environment.  In this project we have used Net link socket for communication between the kernel space and user space, used IOCTL for issuing commands and net filters to hookup LTE Mac processing.

·         Participated in the design, development and also in unit and integration testing of PCRF entity for Samsung’s IMS Infrastructure.

·         The code was implemented using C++ in Linux environment. In this project we have used C++ STL Libraries and design patterns.

Environment:

·         C++, C, Linux, RIPng,, PCRF (Policy Charge and Rule Function), LTE.

 

Navini Networks,  Texas              ( From L&T infotech, Bangalore, India)                                          Sep 05 - Jun 06

 

Project Leader

             

              Worked as Project. Leader for the Navini’s WiMax BTS Layer 3 team. Involved in the design, development and testing of the various WiMax Layer 3 and Layer 2 Protocols

 

·         Involved in designing, developing and testing, both integration and unit testing, bug fixing of BTS Layer 3 Protocols like Proxy DHCP, Proxy ARP, Ethernet Bridging.

·         Implemented using C++ in Vxworks environment.

·         Responsible for analysis of CDMA based code and propose the changes to be made as per the IEEE 802.16 Standard.

·         Also participated in the design of WiMax Layer 2 Protocols like ARQ, Packet classifier and scheduler, Fragmentation.

Environment:

·         C++, Vxworks, TCP/IP, proxy DHCP, proxy ARP, Ethernet Bridging, IEEE 802.16

 

LifeSize Communication, Texas (From Tata Elxsi , Bangalore, India)                            Dec 03 - Sep 05

 

 

Senior Software Engineer 

             

              Worked as Senior Software Engineer in the LifeSize Communication’s IP Video Conferencing team.  I was involved in the design, development and testing of   IP Based Video Conferencing Gateways and Endpoints.

·         Involved in design, development and testing for various components of IP Endpoints and Gateway.

·         Implemented the code in C and Linux.

·         Responsible for proposing the design for the Management Interface Layer (CLI, DHCP) for the IP based Video conferencing Endpoints and Gateways.

·         Involved in the implementation and testing of Management Interface Layer for Video conferencing Endpoints and Gateways.

·         Involved in the design and development for SIP Signaling Protocol for Video Conferencing Endpoints.

·         Participated in the feasibility study and proposal of Media Gateway for IP-ISDN Video Conferencing Gateway.

·         Involved in proposing proprietary protocol for Media Gateway in LifeSize’s IP-ISDN VoIP Gateways.

·         Involved in the design of the interaction between hardware and Media Gateway for sending media on the ISDN network.

·         Involved in design and implementation of processing RTP media packets received from IP side and sending it through ISDN.

·         Involved in the implementation and testing of Media Gateway for handling media from ISDN and forming the RTP packet and sending it over the IP side.

·         Was responsible for the  design, implementation and testing of media related functionalities such as maintaining separate RTP session for every call participant and every conference for IP Based Video Conferencing Endpoints.

Environment:

·         C, Linux, TCP/IP, SNMP, DHCP, H.323, SIP, RTP, RTCP, ISDN , MGCP

 

Multitech Software Systems India Pvt Ltd, Bangalore, India                                                      Jan 01 - Dec 03

 

Software Engineer 

             

              Worked as team member in Networking and VoIP division of Multitech Software Systems. I was part of the TCP/IP suite stack development team and VoIP team. I was also part of Net2Phone development team.

 

·         Involved in the implementation and unit testing of networking protocol like ICMP, DHCP and ARP.

·         Implemented the code in  C under Linux environment.

·         Worked as part of Net2Phone Protocol team and was responsible for designing, implementation and testing of Net2Phone protocol suite

·         This project was implemented using C in Linux environment.

·         Worked as part of VoIP team and was responsible for developing Management Interface Layer which includes development of CLI, DHCP and SNMP based Alarm notifications.

·         Implementation was done using C in Linux environment.

Environment:

·         C, Linux, TCP/IP, ICMP, DNS,UDP,IP, ARP, SNMP, DHCP

 

 

 

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