1. Vishal Gupta Date of Birth: 20th Apr 1985
Mobile: +919999500796
E-mail:india.vishalgupta@gmail.com
Executive Summary
• Close to 7.5 years of enriched protocols development (L2+L3) experience in Data-com domain.
• Excellent customer interaction skills with experience to work with multiple clients.
• Complete experience in leading all stages of system development effort, including
implementation, architectural design, development, requirements analysis, system test, end
customer support.
• Complete exposure to full development life cycle (SDLC processes) and system testing using
automation tools.
• Thorough understanding of layer2 protocols (Spanning Tree, IGMP Snooping, LACP).
• Thorough understanding of layer3 protocols (IPv4, VRRP, IGMP Querier, VRF).
• Working Experience with leading organizations across the globe like tier 1 clients -Alcatel-Lucent
(ITALY), Mellanox (Israel).
• Traveled extensively to customer locations (ITALY) for discussion regarding requirement for
upcoming releases & finalizing the design with system team, release support during integration
phase along with Validation Team, customer support for in-field releases with Client’s marketing
team.
Skill Summary:
Programming C, C++, Python (Basic understanding)
Operating System psos, Familiar with Linux.
Technologies &
Protocols
L2 protocols:- VLAN, Source Learning, 802.1Q, 802.1AD, Bridging QOS,
STP, LACP, IGMP Snooping
L3 protocols:- VRRP, IGMP Querier, IPv4.
Application Software &
Tools
Ethereal, Smart Bit, gdb, IXIA & Spirent traffic generator, valgrind, coverity
Version Control Head Clear case, Git
Achievements/Awards
• Awarded “Individual Snap Excellence Award” in year 2015 for quick resolution of bus for the
release 3.4.3000 as well as guiding & assisting verification engineers to achieve 100% pass rate for the
release.
• Awarded “Team Excellence Award” in year 2013-14 for giving a stable feature of PVRSTP and
assisting in bug fixing for the release 3.4.2000.
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2. • Awarded “Team Excellence Award” in year 2011-2012 for being a key member in a team that
delivered a stable release to an important client in Europe
• Awarded “Team Excellence Award” in year 2009-2010 for giving maintenance support for the
OMSN release
Technical Experience
• Thorough understanding of layer2 protocols (Spanning Tree, IGMP Snooping, IGMP Querier,
LACP)
• Thorough understanding of layer3 protocols (IPv4, VRRP).
• Good design and documentation skills.
• Good experience of performance enhancements of systems
• Testing: Developing Test Cases for Unit Testing, Sub-System Integration and System Integration
Test Plans
• Debugging and Trouble-shooting.
• Exposure to Complete Software Development Life-cycle.
Professional Experience:
Current Designation : Technical Lead
Total Work Experience : 7+ years of experience (Datacom Domain)
Aug 2008 to present : Aricent
Language : C/C++, Python (Basic understanding)
Education:
Post-Graduation : 80 % in MCA (2005-2008), IP University
Graduation : 64% in B. Sc. (H) Computer Science (2002-2005), DU
Project Details:
Project Name Ethernet resource scale feature
Description
Allowing flexibility to user in terms of consuming as much resource in
hardware as possible based on some pre-computed factors.
Responsibilities o Low level porting document for the features.
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3. o Coding.
o Lead a Team technically to deliver E2E release
o Involved in discussion for complete Release, their requirements &
design with customer at customer end.
o Unit Testing
Technology/Tools System Init changes
Duration 3 months (On-going)
Project Name Bug Fixing
Description
Providing support in various bug fixing releases
Responsibilities o Reproduce reported issues
o Guiding other team members
o Giving sessions to team members
Duration 3 months
Project Name VRRP Protocol
Description
Integration of open source keep-alive package to achieve the VRRP
functionality over Switch-X ethernet Router.
Responsibilities oLow level designing for the features.
oCoding & Unit Testing.
oProvided support during the acceptance testing.
oLead a Team technically to deliver E2E release.
oInvolved in debugging and fixing the customer issue.
oHelped the end customer in preparing their production set-up.
oInvolved in discussion for complete Release, their requirements &
design with customer at customer end.
Technology/Tools Operating System : Linux
Duration 9 months
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4. Project Name PVRST
Description
Integration of ISS PVRST module to Mellanox Framework.
Responsibilities o Low level designing for the features.
o Coding & Unit Testing.
o Provided support during the acceptance testing.
o Lead a Team technically to deliver E2E release.
o Involved in debugging and fixing the customer issue.
o Helped the end customer in preparing their production set-up.
o Involved in discussion for complete Release, their requirements &
design with customer at customer end.
Technology/Tools Operating System : Linux
Duration 4 months
Project Name IGMP Querier, Mellanox Israel
Description
Integration of ISS IGMP Querier module to Mellanox Framework.
Responsibilities o Low level designing for the features.
o Coding & Unit Testing.
o Involved in debugging and fixing the customer issue.
o Involved in discussion for complete Release, their requirements &
design with customer at customer end.
Technology/Tools Operating System : Linux
Duration 2 months
Project Name QoS, OMSN 1660 Alcatel-Lucent ITALY
Description Allowing the user traffic to be mapped to customer VLAN and vice versa
with desired vlan & priority.
Client Alcatel ,ITALY
Responsibilities o High/Low level design
o CUT and bug fixing
o Integration testing.
Technology / Tools Operating System : psos
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5. Duration 3 months
Project Name Flash restart, OMSN 1660 Alcatel-Lucent ITALY
Description Ensuring stable system boot-up when the Flash memory is corrupted or
missing from system
Client Alcatel ,ITALY
Responsibilities o High/Low level design of the subsystem
o Identifying system flows of system startup
o Integration testing.
o Traveled to client site in ITALY to support System Testing & Bug
fixing.
Technology / Tools Operating System : psos
Duration 2 months
Project Name OMSN 1660 Alcatel-Lucent ITALY
Description OMSN is basically the Optical Multi-switch network used in core
network. This hardware has three different types of Card ES1/4/16 using
the different drivers and chipset (BCM 5651x) at hardware level.
Client Alcatel ,ITALY
Responsibilities o I provided support for development Rel 2.5 & 1.6 and maintenance
release 1.5.A2/2.4.A2 on customer premise.
Technology / Tools Operating System : psos
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6. Duration 3 months
Project Name Flash restart, OMSN 1660 Alcatel-Lucent ITALY
Description Ensuring stable system boot-up when the Flash memory is corrupted or
missing from system
Client Alcatel ,ITALY
Responsibilities o High/Low level design of the subsystem
o Identifying system flows of system startup
o Integration testing.
o Traveled to client site in ITALY to support System Testing & Bug
fixing.
Technology / Tools Operating System : psos
Duration 2 months
Project Name OMSN 1660 Alcatel-Lucent ITALY
Description OMSN is basically the Optical Multi-switch network used in core
network. This hardware has three different types of Card ES1/4/16 using
the different drivers and chipset (BCM 5651x) at hardware level.
Client Alcatel ,ITALY
Responsibilities o I provided support for development Rel 2.5 & 1.6 and maintenance
release 1.5.A2/2.4.A2 on customer premise.
Technology / Tools Operating System : psos
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