Work history
- August, 2010 Present, Architect,
Infinera Corp
- SDN:
direct cloud-based traffic over physical networks
- P-OTP
design and architecture
- Defined
and designed Shared Mesh Protection (SMP) for optical transport equipment
- March, 2009 July, 2010, Co-Founder,
Gobi Systems
- Bootstrapped
the company with a partner and several engineers
- Designed
a service platform that manage and distribute OTT streaming video
- Worked
closely with potential customers and partners, and got traction
- Worked
directly with VC's, but failed in getting funding
- Defined
the technical direction: Layer-2.5, MPLS-based Ethernet
and application-aware
services
- Produced
most of the product and feature requirements, and coordinated technical
issues between engineering and sales teams
- Acted
as the technology conscience for senior engineering staff
- Worked
with key customers and partners directly
- Contributed
technical proposals in various standard bodies when time allows
- 2002
2004 (24 months), Principle Engineer, Project Lead, Core Networking
Division, Ciena Corporation
- 2001
- 2002 (18 months), Member of Technical Staff, Routing Group, Juniper Networks
- Designed
and developed a number of MPLS scalability and redundancy features. Some
of the deployed features were RSVP refresh reduction (JUNOS 5.1),
MPLS fast switch-over (JUNOS 5.3), and RSVP-TE fast reroute (JUNOS 5.4).
- Invented
and designed the original lsp-ping
(because its draft would include both of my first and last names).
- Worked
on the PacketStar
project on traffic engineering and COPS
- Researched
on scalable reservation signaling mechanisms and UNIX operation systems
(kernels).
- Researched
on data networking: signaling protocols (RSVP, SIP), QoS (IntServ, DiffServ),
network policies (COPS) and IP
switching.
- Developed
RSVP and DiffServ from scratch for IBM router products.
- 1991-1995,
Staff Engineer, Project Lead, IBM
- Designed
and developed the entire stack of Frame Relay UNI/NNI, SMDS UNI and ATM
PVC/DXI.
- Led
a development team to help the deployment of Frame Relay services to IGN.
- Built
routers for NSFNET and IBM Global Network (IGN): the last
owner of T960 T1 and Ethernet that had powered NSFNET, ANS and
IGN.
Education