1. VISHAL AGNIHOTRI
MS in Computer Networking
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3737, Casa Vadre Street, Mobile: 919-527-8780 Mail : vagniho@ncsu.edu
San Jose, CA
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Objectives : Looking for opportunities in Computer networking industry with special interest in latest trends in fields like Datacenter
Networking, Virtualization and SDN.
EDUCATION
MS in Computer Networking CGPA : 4.0
North Carolina State University Graduation Date: Dec 2014
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology 73.4% with distinction
Mumbai University, India Graduation Date : June, 2010
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RELEVANT COURSEWORK
Internet Protocol, Network design and Management, Networking services, Operating systems, Introduction to Wireless networking,
Advance Internet protocols, Advanced Data Structures , Analysis of Algorithms, Internet of Things, Computer Design and Theory
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TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE
Languages Known : C, Java (Enthusiast)
Networking Skills : TCP/IP, IPSec VPN, NAT, High Availability, Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, RIP) DHCP,
DNS, ARP, VLAN, QoS, DiffServ
Network OS and Platforms : Development hands-on experience on JUNOS, SRX Firewalls, J Series Routers, QFX Series
Automation Frameworks : Pybot Automation framework.
Simulation and Debugging Tools : GDB, Coverity, GNS3 , Wire shark
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WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineering 3, Juniper Networks Inc., Sunnyvale, CA ( Feb 2015 - Present )
Working as a part of Packet Forwarding (Data Plane) team in Security and Switching BU working on
qfx-10K series datacenter switches which are the flagship switching product for Juniper Networks.
- Own L2 MAC learning and Aging data-plane module on Qfx series switches and handle all issues and feature
enhancements related to this module. Implemented a polling based interrupt handling mechanism that increased the capacity
by 10 percent.
- Currently working to 801.2 Q-inQ double tag feature on qfx-10k platforms writing the code for this feature enhancement
from the scratch.
- Implemented feature enhancement to support various packet-actions for ‘mac-limit’ port security feature.
- Implemented Pybot UT infra for Q-in-Q module, L3 Sanity.
- Worked on Proof of Concept and feature validation for Qfx-10008 Platform.
Software Engineering Intern, Juniper Networks Inc., Sunnyvale, CA ( May 2014 - Aug 2014 )
• Implemented a long sought-after feature enhancement on QFX series platform, to fetch the routing information actually
programmed in the hardware to the command line. Made modifications to hardware SDK, HAL-P as well as HAL code of
JunOS. Introduced 7 commands as a part of this feature.
• Feature enhancement to display the ACL-TCAM utilization from HAL-P layer to the command line interface.
PREVIOUSWORK EXPERIENCE
Senior Systems Engineer, Infosys Technology, Pune (March 2011- July 2013)
Juniper Networks Technical Assistance Center Escalation Engineer (TAC)
• On call Deployment and troubleshooting: Routing protocols (BGP,OSPF etc), Security applications (IPSec VPN, IDP)
• Knowledge base and documentation: Wrote 5 Knowledge Base Articles for Juniper Networks published on their site.
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KEY ACADEMIC PROJECTS :
• Augmented Xinu, a stripped down version of Linux , Implement Process Management ,Scheduling, Synchronization and
Memory Management (MMU) with Demand Paging and Page Replacement.
• Designed and simulated Multilevel Caches with LRU, LFU and Random replacement policies.
• Peer-to-Peer with Distributed Index (P2P-DI) for downloading RFCs
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TECHNICHAL CERTIFICATIONS AND ACHIEVEMENTS
• JNCIA-JUNOS (July2011) , JNCIS-SEC (Sep 2012)
• Rewarded by Juniper Networks as the BEST PERFORMER for the and BEST BRANCH ENGINEER (Oct-Dec 2011)