Sajal Kumar

About Sajal Kumar

Achievements:Building up a new Cisco Content Security Platforms Team in India and transformed the product into Cloud and Hypervisor solution.AWS & Azure based Cloud security products ESXi and HyperV Gen2 security productsWorked closely with the Product Marketing team to address customer’s pain point. Also came out with the AWS based product as well as HyperV based solutions. The revenue jumped from -7%(FY 2016) to +14%(FY2017) YoY in these two years’ time. For FY2019 the YoY revenue was +35%.Skills:Transformed into IaaS/SaaS/PaaS, new hardware platforms and Digital with Cloud Computing, IOT, AI, ML, Data AnalyticsBuilding Innovation culture in the organization for IP and Value creation. Helped Management to drive large scale transformation in R&D organizations towards Agile and Digital. Implement/Improve Product Development Processes for Engineering, Product and Program Management. Identify and Implement Quality and Productivity Improvement Processes and Metrics. Working closely with the product marketing, sales team and customers for deciding upon NextGen products. Implementation of Agile Development and Testing Practices e.g. Scrum, Kanban, TDD/BDD and CI/CD. Charter and Strategy development for the team and ExecutionSoftware Framework and Infra/App development. Well versed with Architecture and Design Patterns. System and SW Business, Product and Program Management with Cross Functional Multisite Teams and Vendors. Schedule, Risk, Security, Scope, Cost and Quality Management for successful delivery of the programs. Incubate Ideas for local product development e.g. low cost product for high growth emerging markets. Problem Solving, Value Stream Mapping and Kaizen for Continuous Improvement. Worked extensively in WiFi, WiMax, GSM, GPRS & Networking Good knowledge of C,C++, Java, PythonWorking with Global Customer Base, Pre-Sale, Contracts, Vendors, Consortium Bodies and Key Stakeholders

Experience

1. Senior Manager, Software Development Engineering at Cisco

   Cisco

   Nov 2013 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

   Responsible for the Platform Infra, VM and Cloud solutions which includes development & testing. Managing a team size of 30 engineers. The team is working on Content Security products such as Email Security Appliance & Web Security Appliance. The appliances runs on Cisco UCS boxes having OS as FreeBSD. Successfully transitioned the entire Infra responsibilities from SCJ to Bangalore. Addressed the existing burning issues which were impacting customer engagements. This gave us a very good insight of deep diving into the current burning issue. The revenue jumped from -7%(FY 2016) to +14%(FY2017) YoY in these two years’ time. For FY2019 the YoY revenue was +35% New platforms release based in Cisco M5 UCS hardware. VM perf improvements for ESXi & Microsoft HyperV based products. SaaS/PaaS for the products deployed in Cisco Cloud. Cloud supported products in public cloud (AWS, Azure). Migrating the FreeBSD 10.4 to FreeBSD11.2 due to TLS1.3 support.

Education

• Sir GDPP High School

  10th, 12th, PCM

• BIT Mesra Student-Industry Relations Cell

  MS, Software Systems (Intel Sponsored Program)

  2002 — 2004

• JKIETR

  Bachelors, Electronics And Communication Engineering

  1994 — 1998

Skills

• Firmware
• Lte
• Tcl
• Cdma
• Rtos
• Protocol Stacks
• Debugging
• Wireless Technologies
• Soc
• Edge
• Embedded Software
• Switches
• Clearcase
• Pre-Sales
• Gprs
• Wireless
• Software Development
• Vxworks
• Device Drivers
• Testing
• Tcp/Ip
• Automation
• Embedded Linux
• Wifi
• Gsm
• Telecommunications
• Embedded Systems
• Wimax
• Cisco Technologies
• 4g
• Snmp
• Ethernet
• Internet Protocol Suite (Tcp/Ip)
• Linux Kernel
• Linux
• Layer 2