Individual Speaker Profile

• Juniper Networks Inc. - From 2011-02-28 (Current)

Member of the networking fraternity and great interest in the opensource cloud ecosystem that OpenStack has brought into limelight.

• OpenContrail
• SDN
• Networking
• Secure multi-tenancy
• Service chaining

Sr. Product Manager (Cloud Networking and Security, Contrail) @ Juniper Networks Inc.
Started as a Software Engineer writing protocol code, CLI, device drivers and online diagnostic software for various networking equipment vendors - Allied Telesyn, Force10 Networks, Cisco Systems.

Then began a journey into network programmability, APIs and SDK at Juniper Networks.

Evolved from programmability into platforms for NFV and SDN.

In this journey evolved from being a Software Engineer to a Technical Marketing Engineer to a Solutions Engineer to a Product Manager.

Education:

A Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Mumbai, India.

A Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Southern California.

And a graduate certificate in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.

• To Overlay or Not to Overlay is the Question

• OpenStack Networking (Neutron and Beyond) - Experiences and Best Practices BoF

• See 42:00 onwards
  
• Extending OpenStack Heat to Orchestrate Security Policies and Nw Fn Svc Chains
  
• Foundational Overview of OpenContrail
  
• Different approaches to performance enhancements in Network Virtualization for NFV
  
• DPDK in overlay networks and how it affects NFV performance
  

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