
IT Architect at Cisco Systems
San Francisco Bay Area

IT Architect at Cisco Systems
San Francisco Bay Area
A bonafide "social media addict", I am passionate about technologies that simplify "interactions", be it between human-to-human, human-to-machine or machine-to-machine. Not surprisingly, my current areas of interest are in figuring out the business applications of Social Computing along with helping design and build Solutions based on SOA/WOA.
After graduating from Arizona State with my dual Masters degree in Industrial Engineering (Information Systems) and Computer Science, I have had the good fortune of working in two great Fortune 500 companies in these past ten years - Lucent Technologies and Cisco Systems.
I live in "the" Silicon Valley with my wife, a daughter and our Wire Fox Terrier. When I am not at work and I am not on my laptop reading about the latest political chicaneries of US Politics or Blogging or Twittering, or dealing with the latest fad rolled out of the Web (2.0 or n.0) assembly line, I like to take short and/or long road trips, watch movies and enjoy fast-food delicacies..;-)
Software/Solutions Architecture,
Open Source Tools Advocate,
Social Computing,
Web Oriented Architecture,
SOA/BPM (Oracle/JBoss),
Cloud Computing (GAE/AWS),
Ruby/RoR Programming,
Java/JEE Programming,
LAMP Stack Hacks,
Virtualization (VMWare)* ,
Cisco IT Standards,
Cisco IT AFS
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)
February 2001 — Present (7 years 8 months)
Went from building web applications to architecting them over the years
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LU; Telecommunications industry)
January 1999 — February 2001 (2 years 2 months)
Played a lead role in designing and developing Lucent's first Single Sign-on solution for external web applications leveraging the Netegrity SiteMinder solution
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
May 1996 — December 1998 (2 years 8 months)
IS Lab (is.asu.edu) catered to the technology needs of Arizona State Instructors and Students. It focussed on helping the community embrace the new and upcoming technologies into their education needs.
As the lead student IS Engineer, I worked on many projects involving things like building web applications, doing PoC of new technologies and products and help the IS Lab customers get introduced to them
MSc, Computer Science, 1997 — 1998
MSE, Information Systems, 1995 — 1997
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering, 1991 — 1995
Enterprise Architecture, Software Architecture, Enterprise Web 2.0, Social Software, SOA, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Virtualization Java, LAMP, Ruby, Fedora Linux
IEEE, ACM
Third prize on a paper I co-presented at IIT Delhi on "Taguchi Methods"
Arizona Governor's Award while studying in Arizona State University
18 Certificate of Achievement Awards @ Cisco (so far)