Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan

About Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan

Go language (Golang) Cloud Native Architect and Technology Evangelist• Over 20 years of technical experience in Networking, OS and embedded development• Demonstrated ability to grasp and dissect complex problems and provide simple, layered solutions• Ability to manage/lead a team, work as Individual Contributor or as a team player• Continuous demonstration of innovation capabilities, including algorithms, rapid prototyping, and tools• Ability to focus on one single task as well as spread out in diverse areas as the work demands.• Worked on World’s most popular Cisco Catalyst products including Catalyst 6500• Acquired knowledge on many Cisco ASIC families including UADP• Worked with great minds that created Unix, C and Inferno in Bell Labs• Very strong mentoring, leadership and management skills• Avid technology learner, contributor, and evangelistSkills:• Embedded real-time, networking, OOAD, device drivers, kernel, VM, Network Processors• Switching/Routing products: Catalyst 6K, 4K, 3K, NG3K (Cat 3850), Cisco 7600• Target Platforms: Cisco IOS, ION, Nova, Linux, VxWorks, QNX, pSOS• TCP/IP, IPv4, IPv6, Netow V5, V9, IPFIX, Netow Collector, IPSec, WCCP 1.0/2.0, DHCP, VPN, Firewall, Security Accelerators, SDN, OpenFlow, OpenFlow simulator, AVC, DNS, RIP, VRRP, Mobile IP, RADIUS, NAT, FIPS, wired/wireless• Cisco L2/L3 fwdingASIC internals and s/w: Cisco Unied Access Data Plane (UADP), K10/K15,(Cat6K) EARL 7/8• Languages: C, Go (Golang), Limbo, Unix shell• OS: Linux, UNIX internals, VxWorks, IOS/Nova/ION, Inferno/Plan9• Distributed, Multi-threaded, Multi-core, Many-core programming • Dev tools: Clearcase, Acme, CDETS, GDB, ACID debugger, ACME tool• Tools developed for various solutions: Venci/dLite Netow collector, Distinict Time Machine (DTM), Drive (AMM/FIX 4.0 trading protocol) Collector, Columbus/Oxygen/nhdoc ASIC debugging tools• Processor architecture, Multi-core, many-core, SIMD, Graphics, Database, MySQL, Web, SMIL, TTML, SVG

Experience

1. Senior Staff Engineer

   HPE Aruba Networking

   Dec 2013 — Present · Sunnyvale, CA, US

Education

• University of Madras

  Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computer Science

  1988 — 1991

• Anna University

  Diploma in Computer Applications, Computer Science

  1987 — 1988

• Stanford University

  Stanford Advanced Program Management (SAPM), Project Management, Program Management - [To Be Completed]

  2008 — 2013

• Sacred Heart College

  Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Mathematics and Science

  1984 — 1987

• Stanford University

  Stanford Advanced Computer Security (SACS), Computer Security

  2008 — 2008