Venu Kumar Gurrapu

About Venu Kumar Gurrapu

Evident as a multi-functional expert, an entrepreneurial mindset, I have broad expertise in Telecom/Datacom areas. Major chunk of my career revolved around Software Product Design, Technical Architecture, Design & Analysis, Implementation and Testing, Technology Development, Product Owning, Setting-up Datacom or Telecom Software Services, Product Development, Technical Analysis, Customer and Product Marketing Interaction, Release and Deployment Lead, and Team Leadership. Engineer and researcher with diverse interests and experiences in Systems and Networking, Strong understanding of embedded/distributed systems, Linux, Computer architectures, Data structures, Algorithms, and system debugging. Gained enriched software and systems development experience in Datacom, Protocols, Cloud Connecting, Datacentre, 5G Core, and Backhaul Connecting, Network Security Technology, Slow Path Handling, and Network Technologies combined with designing Datacom or Telecom components (i.e. control/signaling, and forwarding) from concept to solution delivery through requirement, architect, development, and deployment phases, Comprehensive Subject Matter Experience (SME) on the products worked. Time-tested capabilities in handling product requirements, including features, future improvements, performance, scale requirements, validations, and usability aspects. Seasoned in understanding and identifying customer problems/pain points. My major highlights have included architecting and designing solutions, development on NFV/SDN, Tofino MAUs, Branch/Edge connectivity and Routing and L2 Switching, L3 Forwarding, Multicasting Virtual Security and High Availability, Load Balancing solutions, State full Firewall, GRE, VxLAN Tunnels, IGMPv2/v3, and IP Networking area (TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, NAT, State full Firewall, DHCP, IPv4/6, QoS, BFD, L2 switching, PFCP, SMF, and 3GPP standards. Expertise in RTOS & Linux flavored OS internals, and software mechanisms to improve code performance, stability, and optimization techniques. As a charismatic leader, roles required me to lead the technology team, drive product growth, value proposition, and release, and handle technical issues and optimization of performance. Worked with diversified customers, and cross-functional, cross-geographical product management, and development teams and defined product features, solutions, and use cases. Please feel free to drop me a line at v••••••@hotmail.com

Experience

1. Sw Enabling and Optimization Engineering Manager

   Intel

   May 2021 — Present · Bangalore Urban, IN

   Throughout my tenure, my responsibility has been to advocate customer requirements, drive the resolution of customer hardware platform, software SDK, and control plane interfaces issues, by partnering with functional groups for Tofino programmable switches. Meanwhile, I educate, clarify, and resolve customer issues in various Tofino hardware blocks like Match action pipeline, TNA (PISA), T2NA Packet processor, Programable Ingress/Egress De Parser, P4 Compiler, and Traffic Manager/Packet Replication Engineer.\\\\n\\\\nFurther, my emphasis has always been on guiding customers on Tofino Design guidance, software issue debugging, SONIC architecture & Platform abstraction plugins.\\\\n\\\\nMoreover, I build and mentor productive team in a short time, and steer multiple technical discussions/issues on a day-to-day basis. Participate in design reviews for new features in Networking Applications Debugging deployment failures reported by customers on the field and coming up with solutions and fixes.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n

Education

• SESN Murthy Polytechnic, Khammam

  Diploma, Computer Science

  1992 — 1995

• Savitribai Phule Pune University

  B E, Computer Science

  1996 — 1999