Sachin

Background / Bio

I am excited to be part of the ONOS Ambassadors program. I am currently at Calix, working on driving the Software Defined Access and CORD/ONOS initiatives. Prior to this, I spent 15+ years at Juniper Networks working in a variety of senior engineering and product management roles. I have a BS in Electrical Engineering from Delhi University; an MS from UC Irvine, and an MBA from Cornell.

As a Director of Engineering and Product Management, I have had the opportunity to work across the broad spectrum network domains -  Access & Aggregation, Data Center, Core and Edge. From Fiber (FTTH) like GPON, NGPON-2 and Copper (G.FAST), as well as Layer 2/3 switching and routing such as VXLAN, EVPN, L3VPN, MPLS, VPLS, BGP, ISIS, OSPF and core SDN technologies like OpenFlow and Netconf/YANG.

I have been an active participant at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) serving on the Migration, Testing & Interoperability working groups, also served as the co-chair of the certifications committee in the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF).  I am currently responsible for driving the implementation of core SDN technologies. This includes the implementation of ONOS/CORD, Open Flow, OpenStack, NFV and the integration of 3^rd party automation technologies such as Ansible, Puppet and Chef.

Areas of expertise

• ONOS architecture
• CORD use cases
• Event organization
• DevOps
• L2/L3 Network Protocols
• Virtualization

Events 

• ONOS meet-up, Menlo Park (CA)
• CORD Tutorial, Menlo Park (CA)
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