Raju Nanduri

raj.nandur@gmail.com

Work Authorization: Green Card (US Permanent resident).

Experience Summary:

• Over 16+ years experience as Founding Member/Architect, Lead and as individual

contributor, participated in Technology Architecture, Product/feature definition, Product

shaping, Architect, Designing, Developing software systems/applications mainly in C/C++ ,

Python and running on Linux, Windows and using various networking protocols (TCP/IP, VoIP,

SIP, H323, SNMP etc).

• As Technology Architect, recent experience includes building “Orchestration solutions

involving Automated Full Application stack deployments in Public, Private , Hybrid Clouds ,

based on Industry leading Virtualizatation platforms. Also Architect-ed, designed , built

solutions in Collaboration and Unified Communications space based on platforms like Cisco

Call manager, Cisco Presence servers etc . Experienced in using various networking

protocols like VoIP, SIP, H323, RTP/RTCP, SNMP and technologies like AVC/SVC Video Codecs

(H264, H263 etc) , Audio Codecs (G711*, G722*) etc. Also developed SNMP based network

management systems (NMS software).

• Involved in taking products from concept to delivery to deployment and support. Work

involves researching the technology landscape , proposing and defining solutions, helps

prioritizing the features and provide technical direction.

• ~14+ years of Hands-on Experience writing applications using C/C++, Python, Win32 API,

MFC, QT, Java, and web technologies in Technology companies like Cisco, Intel, Unisys etc

and also in startups. Also did Unix/Linux Shell Programming, AWK programming and Sed,

etc in past.

• Led engineering teams worked in Technical Project Management roles with responsibilities

including Planning, Managing and Leading various software Projects/Product teams. Worked

with multiple teams ranging from Product management, Customer-facing teams, QA Teams,

Alpha/EFT teams and off-shore teams etc across time zones.

• Certified Scrum Master and Certified Product Owner. Used Agile development

methodologies and Worked as Scrum Master running daily scrums, interacting and

negotiating with Product owners, resolve obstacles for team and also scrum team member.

• Architect-ed, Designed and built solutions based on cloud and virtualization technologies

like Openstack, VmWare vCenter, ESXi, KVM, Amazon EC2, GCE, Microsoft Azure , Dockers ,

Linux Containers (Lxc) etc and deployed 3 tier, N-tier Full applications stacks that some

times are front ended by ADCs, Load Balancers, Firewalls, WAF ( Web Application Firewalls)

etc

SKILLSET:

Languages

Protocols

Scripts/Tools

RDBMS/ OS

C/C++, Python, MFC, QT, Java, WIN32 API, VC++, Shell scripting.

SIP, SIMPLE, RTP, XMPP, H263, H264, SNMP, TFTP, Rexec, UDP

Wireshark, Hudson build server, klockworks, SVN, Code Collaborator ,VMware

MySQL, Oracle, Ubuntu Linux, RHEL/CentOS, Windows and UNIX

Professional Certifications & Training (during 2012 – 2000):

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Certified Scrum Master (Agile development methodology) & Certified Product Owner.

Microsoft certification in MFC and C++ & Sun Certified Java Professional (JCP)

Professional Experience:

Avni Networks - Founding Architect

AvniSDC

Aug’13 - Tilldate

As one of the founding members of the company involved in the inception of the company , market research,

product idea, conceptualization, selecting the platforms, Architectural decisions , continuous design as product

evolves, Hiring etc. Roles and Responsibilities include:

Leader ship:

• Key founding member involved in product development from Market research , Conceptualization to

Architectural and design decisions

• First one to propose and push for Openstack , KVM and vCenter as foundational blocks of the product.

• One of the 2 person team that took care of Company Data center activities

• Infrastructure decisions, setting up and maintaining

• Involved in selecting Platforms, Clouds and Virtualizarion platforms and implementation

• Proposed and pushed for number of ideas, designed and developed some of those.

• Fully responsible for Adding external persistent Storage aspects of the product on all platforms/clouds

• Customer PoCs, Demos, Industry events, etc

Hands On Implementation:

• Feature Design and Hands of development, Writing code

• Designed REST Framework, MySQL Database , DB API etc for REST based operations

• Wrote a number of features in AvniSDC

• wrote scripts to automate a number of tasks related to CD & CI

• Attended Industry events , Demos for show casing the product

Polycom Inc

Mar2013 – Aug13

CloudAxis Core - System Manager

This project is part of Polycom’s Cloud Axis team. System Manager is a cloud orchestration system to deploy,

manage Polycom’s UC components (DMA, MCU, XMA, Etc). Responsible for developing OpenStack Based

“System Manager” that creates and Manage RPP Component VMs on VmWare based private clouds and

Amazon AWS EC2 based public clouds.

• Key team member involved in architectural and design decisions and played major role in design.

• Designed and Wrote EC2 Driver

• Developed Hybrid Cloud model to move workloads between private and public clouds (Cloud bursting)

• integrated and deployed openstack 3rd party external storage product for team collaboration

• Developed API for create, deploy Polycom Video Solution components with in openstack and vCenter

private clouds and burst into Amazon EC2 cloud.

Fuzebox Inc., (San Francisco , CA)

X-Native Client (Cross Platform)

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Linux based cross platform rich media client - C++, Linux, QT, WebRTC - Architecture, Design, coding.

Sept’2011 Mar’2013

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Fuze TelePresence Connect (Video Gateway):

Fuze Telepresence Connect is the world's first cloud-based gateway solution that extends the value of existing

TelePresence and video conferencing investments by solving interoperability and extensibility problems in the

enterprise, connecting diversified set of end points (including mobile device such as iPads and Android tablets.)

• Key team member involved in architectural and design decisions and played major role in design.

• Led the development efforts and the Responsible for implementation of the product.

• Significant contribution by writing code.

• Interoperability Testing and fixes.

Environment: C++, OPAL/PTLib frame work, Ubuntu Linux, 3rd Party vendor libraries, H323, SIP , Fuze Cloud

Services, Cloud infrastructure. AVC/SVC

Cisco Systems, Inc.,

(San Jose, CA )

(January’2005 –Aug’ 2011 as full time employee and rest of time as consultant/contractor)

Cisco Precession Video Engine (CPVE)

Approx 6+ Years tenure

Oct’ 2010 – July - 2011

The Cisco Precision Video Engine (CPVE) is a cutting-edge AUDIO/VIDEO engine that provides high-fidelity

audio and HD video experience and real-time voice and video processing API for soft phone client applications.

• In This Agile based project, worked as scrum master as a part of self-managing scrum teams.

• Feature development/Coding in C++ for Audio/Video enhancements modules, Change Audio packet

sizing, Providing API etc

• Designed/Implemented Automated test cases using C++/Google Test framework

• One of the engineers to maintain Hudson build server for auto builds and test cycles and static analysis.

Environment: C/C++, GStreamer framework, PME, QT, Google Test, Mac OSx, Linux, Win7,

Hudson, Klockwork

Cisco Unified Personal Communicator (CUPC)

Aug 2006 – Sept’ 2010

CUPC is a one stop communication solution that let users access voice, video, Web conferencing, instant

messaging and presence information—all from a single, rich-media interface on PC or Mac.

• Led the product sustaining team, responsible for product releases. Responsible for Customer issues and

Alpha/IT/WebEx teams engagement. Worked with ~6 internal teams to ensure timely deliverables.

• Managed relations with Product Management, QA teams and closely worked with them for the

prioritization and scheduling of product releases, work items etc. Tracked quality metrics for product.

• Designed/Wrote following modules in C++/MFC/Win32

• Implemented XMPP protocol based presence/status messages in C++

• Implemented server based time stamps.

• Device management, Device handlers using Win32 API/C++/MFC

• Module that handles Windows Power Management messages to the app.

• Designed Secure Voicemail for win32, Implemented Call Failover and Call Statistics.

• Dozens of bug fixes

Environment: C++/MFC, Win32 API, SIP, LDAP, RTP, SIMPLE, TFTP, SSL,, Cisco Unified Communications

Manager (CUCM), CUP, SCPP, IMAP, Unity and Unity Connection, Meeting Place, Webex, Windows.

Cisco IP Communicator (CIPC)

: When registered to Cisco Unified Communications Manager call processing

system, CIPC provides advanced telephony features and VoIP.

• Implemented Encrypted TFTP communication module in C/C++.

• Implemented Audio QoS module using C/C++/Win32/GIPS API

• Re-implemented asymmetric audio codec scenario during call negotiation

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Cisco Unified Video Advantage (CUVA) :

CUVA 2.2 adds video to the existing user’s communications

experience by providing video telephony functionality to familiar phone interface (Cisco Unified IP phones

-6921/41/61, 7940 series, 7960 series, 7970 series, & CIPC)

• Implemented Video call statistics and Call logging.

Environment: C/C++/MFC, Win32 API, Java, Cisco Unified Communications Manager, GIPS Library, SCCP, SIP,

RTP, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM).

e-ARMS & e-Reserve

Sep’05 – Aug 2006

e-ARMS is a web based regression test management and execution system that acts like a Centralized

Regression console and a common test Environment for various Cisco’s Regression houses supporting QA, test

and Dev engineers.

• Develop features in JAVA, fix bugs, product sustaining and L3 product support as a part of Dev team.

• Own and be responsible for the maintenance of the 10 Production servers.

Environment:– Java, C, Perl, Oracle, Servlets , Sun V440s/ V240s/ V210s, Sun Fire 880s, Shell Scripting, CVS

Hexaware Technologies Inc,

(Full time employee of Hexaware and worked as consultant for its diversified clientèle)

Cisco Packet Tracer 4.0 (Cisco San Jose Campus, CA)

Aug 2000 – Aug’ 2005

Jan’05– Aug’05

Packet Tracer4.0 is network simulation software used in networking academies worldwide to design, configure, and

troubleshoot the networks, build topologies, networking devices and allows creates packets with specified characteristics

and run a simulation through a highly sophisticated GUI or a simulated IOS CLI.

• Created the GUI Architecture to provide application framework for the product. This frame work Contains and

manages various workspaces, GUI Components and widgets. Writen in QT/C++

• Designed and developed the interface with Engine for Packet Animation, using Event lists, Simulation and

Frame Instances modules on engine side, templates for Activities Module and Generic Device tables and

Designed and developed a multitude of printing options.

Intel Corp (Folsom, CA)

May’03– Dec’04

GENI (HR-IT systems Upgrade):

Led, managed 3 modules namely: 1) Employee offer and compensation management 2) PeopleSoft HR reporting.

3) BI and analytical reporting systems.

• Led, Managed teams of different sizes ranging up to 12 members working above modules with wide

range of skill sets and experience levels.

• Planning the work, Provide Sizing and estimation of work and track timelines.

• Maintain relationships and expectations with customers while coordinating with Offshore teams.

• Coding parts of Employee offer letter module in C++

Environment: C, C++, PeopleSoft, MicroStrategy, Unix, windows, SQR, Oracle, MS SQL Server

UNISYS Corporation (Minneapolis, MN)

Oct’02-May’03

ISM 1.0 (Cargo 2000 CDMP Phase I):

ISM 1.0 is Unisys’s implementation of Cargo 2000 Phase I specification that provides vendor neutral messaging

and communication process to move Air Cargo/freight among various Airline companies, Forwarders, Ground

handlers, Brokers etc who confirm to this standard.

• Designed and developed ATS Module, MSGSCAN, MSGPROC modules

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• Wrote SQL for data retrieval, manipulation , update etc

• Designed and Developed Web Interfaces using Java, JSP, J2EE, Servlets, Java Script,

Env: Oracle 8.1, Shell Scripting, Awk programming, Pro*C, Sed and Unix (Sun OS 7.0)

Robicon Corporation (Pittsburgh, PA)

Aug’00 - Oct’ 02.

NextGen - perfect Harmony (Tool suite):

Tool suite is an application Suite that has around 6 different System tools like Host Simulator Compiler, Reverse

Compiler, Drive Setup Wizard, etc. developed by Robicon, a Subsidiary of Siemens Corporation.

• Designing, Developing and maintaining a Win32/C/C++/MFC app (Host Simulator) and Involved in

Working on Embedded System Software (Eagle) that runs on Phar Lap.

• Designed and Developed cost-effective modules like Upload/Download SOP, Numeric Keypad that

eliminates the need of some hardware and hence reduced the cost of the system.

• Designed and Developed Touch Screen Interface

Cisco Systems Inc (San Jose, CA and offshore India)

(Employed by HCL Technologies Ltd, India based at Cisco ODC, Chennai)

Aug’99 – Aug 2000

VIEW RUNNER 3.0 & 3.1:

View Runner is an element based Networking Management system to configure the Cisco 6100 (DSL Access

Multiplexer) Node. It implements SNMP Protocol to Get and Set the Configuration Parameters of the 6100 Node.

• Designed and Developed various modules to get/set DSLAM config

• Designed, developed, Installshiled er package

Environment: C++, SDK, COM, MFC Library, Win SNMP, MS Visual C++, Windows NT 4.0

CDM 3.0 (Cisco DSL Access Multiplexer Manager ):

CDM3.0 is Unix OS based software package to configure, devices, connections and track n/w stats

and provides fault, and performance management control and operation in very large networks.

World Telecom Labs, Belgium (offshore in India)

Jan ’99 - Aug’99

WTL Switch Manager:

WTL SWITCH Manager allows user to fully configure any switch in the network on the fly and It uses FTP API for

file transfer, remote exec protocol for running remote commands using a rich, sophisticated GUI.

• Designed and Developed Multi-threading modules to improve responsiveness of system

• Designed and developed Switch Interface UI

Environment: C++, MFC, Visual C++,

CADSCON, India

rexec, Windows NT/95, Unix (Solaris)

Jul’97 -Dec'98

Large Building Construction Software (B_EST 6. 0)

Pollution Monitoring System (PMS)

Environment: Windows NT/95/ 3.1, C++, SDK, MS Visual Basic 5.0, MS Visual C++ 5.0, Borland C++4.51,

Socket programming, MS-SQL Server 6.0/6.5

Education: BS (Electrical and Electronics Engg.), JNT University, India, 1997

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