Abhishek Dhammawat
Principal Software Engineer Senior Technical Lead @Cisco Meraki
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Software Engineer Senior Technical Lead @Cisco Meraki
San Jose, CA, US
May 2015 - Present - Location San Jose-•Led the Meraki Dashboard Cloud backend services for Cloud monitoring solution bringing catalyst AP/WLC in Meraki dashboard. Implemented multiple backend services (ETL data pipelines) and guided team for wireless monitoring solution delivery.•Led and managed teams for WiFi wireless LAN controller, access point, architect for WPA3, WiFi7 and WiFi6E security. AP micro-location bonjour solution. Implemented new Security algorithms for SAE and OWE authentication methods. Zero Customer defects till date in the implementations.•Led and drove private 5G UPF for enterprise deployment. Architect and implemented the working product from scratch.•Nephelo (a Cisco Internal Startup)- architect for virtual ePDG and GiLAN gateway products in LTE (4G) domain-Jan 2012 - May 2015 Location Bengaluru-Developed ePDG (evolved Packet Data Gateway) for untrusted WiFi and have led the team for three years making it from conceptualization to a successfully deployed product.• Defined architecture for ePDG and how it can be best fit in existing StarOS platform for ASR5K.• Engaged with the leading UE vendor enabled competitive edge for VoWiFi.• Guided product managers for putting up the product roadmap.• Lead ePDG pre-sales and was instrumental in eleven Teir-1 customer wins with 85% insertion ratio.• Writing Software requirements, High & low-level design for the ePDG features.• Coding complex piece of code and mentoring team for writing easier code legs.• The product won the prestigious cisco MBG award.• Have seven Issued patents in USPTO-Total WiFi/5G/4G Patents (38 worldwide and 29 at USPTO)Have 21 patents Issued, 13 filed and 4 published worldwide.WPA3 blog - https://blogs.cisco.com/networking/wpa3-bringing-robust-security-for-wi-fi-networks?oid=pstwls026281
EDUCATION
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur
B Tech, Electronics and Communications
SKILLS
ABOUT ABHISHEK DHAMMAWAT
Experience:•Extensive Software and Product Development experience in the areas of Wi-Fi, 5G, 4G and Cloud Monitoring/assurance solutions.Skills:•Cloud Technologies - Meraki Dashboard - Cloud backend SCALA services (ETL data pipelines)•5G Packet Core - UPF, private 5G for enterprise deployment, PFCP (N4 interface), GTPu (N3 interface), 3GPP Standards•Wi-Fi - WiFi7, WiFi6E, Access Point, Wireless LAN controller, WPA3, SAE, OWE, 802.1x, MAC layer, Enterprise Security,High Availability, Wi-Fi 802.11 Standards•LTE EPC - ePDG, PGW, GTP, DIAMETER, IPsec, Wi-Fi offload, voLTE•C (Programming Language), Python, Linux•Software Architecture, Technical Architecture, Agile Methodology and Project ManagementCareer Highlights:•Led and built WPA3 security features in Cisco WLC and access points across releases for WiFi6E and WiFi7.•Led and developed Meraki Cloud dashboard backend services for wireless monitoring.•Hired new team for private 5G UPF solution, defined architecture, implemented key UPF functions.•Built ePDG (evolved Packet Data Gateway) software product from inception to production.•ePDG product led by me won the prestigious cisco MBG award.•Lead ePDG pre-sales and was instrumental in eleven Teir-1 customer wins with 85% insertion ratio.•Build PGW Software product from scratch as first LTE gateway node in Aricent and later led the same as Senior Technical Leader and Manager delivering the award-winning Product release.•Multiple (29) USPTO patents issues and filed. Worldwide 38 patents in WiFi, 5G and 4G.
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