Krishna Sankar

Current

• Distinguished Engineer at Cisco Systems Inc

Past

• Technology Advisor at Shimon Systems

Recommended

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Connections

208 connections

Industry

Computer Networking

Websites

• My Blog
• My Portfolio
• Ubuntu stuff (WIP)

Krishna Sankar’s Summary

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Krishna Sankar’s Experience

• Distinguished Engineer

  Cisco Systems Inc

  (Public Company; CSCO; Computer Networking industry)

  November 2002 — Present (7 years 2 months)

  - Completed VSP,VTSP and VCP !
  - Building Cloud Concept Lab (incl our own UCS systems)
  - Writing Cloud OS for Prototyping Cloud APIs - Ruby,vCenter and UCS!)
  - Co-chair Cloud Incubator at DMTF www.dmtf.org/cloud
  - Working on various aspects of Cloud Computing Architecture at CTO's Office
  - Cloud Control Plane/POD OS for next generation server farm
  --Architecture of Abstract-declarative Policy based virtualization of network services for cloud infrastructure
  -Technology Leadership & customer validation
  --Organizing Cloud working group for federal customers(NCOIC)
  --Cloud service providers for the policy plane APIs
  -Enterprise/Cloud Communication gateway
  --Architecture & development of Web 2.0 E2C Gateway "Appliance"
  --Architecture/security enhancement for trust fabric incl authorization protocols (enterprise grade OAuth) & policy framework for inter-company collaboration
  --A communication gateway by the side of firewalls to capture the context & then enable inter-enterprise collaboration!
  ---Multi-tenant when placed in a Cloud Service Provider
  --Social Networking interfaces like Open Social and OAuth
  -Cloud based “zero day” anti-virus system – Server Cloud & MMP protocol design
  -Book “Enterprise Web 2.0 Fundamentals”[http://tinyurl.com/bpopwn]

• Technology Advisor

  Shimon Systems

  (Privately Held; Computer Networking industry)

  July 2005 — January 2008 (2 years 7 months)

  * Startegic Architecture of wireless/fingerprint security products
  * Advise on pragmatic implementation of 802.1x, PKI and other security standards
  * We won one of the DEMO2006 INNY - INspiring INnovation awards!

Additional Information

Krishna Sankar’s Websites:

• My Blog
• My Portfolio
• Ubuntu stuff (WIP)

Krishna Sankar’s Interests:

o Robotics Networking, Rube Goldberg Machine, Collaborating maze solving robots, First Lego League Judging and participation, Working on teaching robotics to kids (In proposal stage), Rocker-bogie

Krishna Sankar’s Groups:

i) Annual PKI Workshop (Internet2/NIH/NIST)
* Workshop Chair (2003)
* Member - Programming committee member for last 3 years
ii) OASIS Technical Advisory Board Member (Elected 2002-2004)
iii) Occasional teaching at Naval Post Graduate School
iv) Executive Committee member - Java Community Process (Elected ‘00-03)
v) EU (European Union) Security Initiatives on Electronic Signature Infrastructure, PKI systems and Network & Information Security
Member STF (Specialist Task Force) (2002) on Electronic Signature Infrastructures
vi) Represent Cisco in W3C, OASIS and ZigBee Alliance

•    CISCO
•    Silicon Valley NewTech Meetup
•    CIO Forum
•    VM People Virtualization & Cloud Group
•    Cloud Computing
•    Silicon Valley Venture Community
•    Erlang/OTP Professionals
•    CloudCamp - Unconventional Cloud Computing
•    Cloud Storage
•    Cloud Computing Interoperability Forum (CCIF)
•    Cloud Networking
•    VMware Consultants and Professionals Group
•    Scalable Systems
•    Cloud Hosting & Service Providers Forum
•    Erlang Factory
•    NoSQL
•    OpenNebula Community

Krishna Sankar’s Honors:

vii) Publications:
* Lead Author : 21 habits of effective Network-centric Operations (Book submitted to US Naval Institute for publishing)
* Lead Author - Cisco Press Book “Cisco Wireless LAN Security”
* Co-Editor w/ IBM : Adaptive Services Framework - http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partners/pr67/pr30/pr293/partners_pgm_white_paper_list.html
* Contributed to Air Force C2RA (C2 Enterprise Technical Reference Architecture)
* Global Grid Forum
o Contributor/ex-Editor on security aspects of Grid incl authorization framework, policy based security systems and web services security, : Conceptual Grid Authorization Framework, Global Grid Forum working group (Tokyo 03, Chicago 03)
* Lead Author/Co-author of 7 books on Java/Internet (They are too old, don't buy them ;o))