Dave Mastropolo

About Dave Mastropolo

Management Profile: Expertise in growing large development test teams and cultivating and mentoring talent. Adept at managing multiple projects technically while providing both high level and detailed test strategies, approaches, and leadership for timely logistical execution. Experience coordinating with different business units across different product lines in a parallel fashion that supports corporate business objectives and goals. Solid understanding of Test methodologies and processes that support an integrative approach to methodical test case execution and high software quality standards. Experience managing and growing both local and remote/offshore teams concurrently across multiple projects, for timely and efficient delivery of product. Technical Profile: Extensive experience in a wide variety of networking devices in the areas of technical marketing, system test, network design, software validation, customer support and robust standards-compliant software feature design. Software validation and Protocol knowledge in the areas of L2 (STP and multicast protocols), L3 (OSPF, RIP, BGP), L4-L7 content switching (loadbalancing, upper layer inspection), Security protocols (SSL/TLS, IPSEC VPN, SSL VPN) and all Firewall technologies. End to end application optimzation. Multi-Hypervisor Virtual services (load balancers, firewalls, WAN optimizers) development and testing with service chaining of multiple nodes. Cloud switching and L2 extension technology development and testing. Cloud User Interface workflow testing, design and development. github.com/dmastrop Skills: Docker and LXC, Kubernetes (kops/EKS), Jenkins/Github Actions/Gitlab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible, AWS, Sonarqube, Nexus, AWS CodePipeline, Helm microservices deployments, Linux, VPS DevOps ecosystem w/ Gitlab container, PaaS and SaaS (primarily in AWS), IDE (AWS Cloud9, VSCode) DevOps VPS: d••••••••@linode.cloudnetworktesting.com

Experience

1. Senior Software Development Test Manager, Virtual Services and Cloud Switching

   Cisco

   Nov 2009 — Present · CA

   Virtualized Switch Development for L4-L7 services, policy based firewall, and security services on Vmware Hypervisor, KVM, Microsoft Hyper-VVirtualized services include load balancing, WAN optimization, edge firewalling, and virtual machine/zone based firewalling.(service chaining)Cloud switch development, and Cloud overlay switching technologies, with third party cloud providers (Amazon, Azure). L2 Cloud extension technology development (Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure switching technologies)Control plane and GUI administration development on a highly distributed architecture Multi-tenant.(mulitple firewalls).Extensive experience managing all aspects of the development and QA cycle through several release cycles.Experience managing local and offshore remote teams, coordination of multiple projects across geographically disperse teams.

Education

• Santa Clara University

  MBA

• Santa Clara University

  BSEE