Contact
My contact email: [email protected] or via phone/WhatsApp: (0091) 99860 77058
My GitHub: https://github.com/kirankankipati
My Skills, Expertise and Experience:
- Datacom, R&D, and product architecture/development/research
- Systems Software, Linux Kernel Network Stack (Network sub-system, drivers: bridge, vlan, vxlan, tun/tap, veth, wireguard, etc) and user-space networking
- work closely with CEOs/CTOs/product-architects and assist in complete product life cycle, strategy and so on
- more than a decade of experience in WAN Optimization, Deep-space and Satellite Network technologies
- SDN and Cloud Orchestration, Hypervisor tuning and optimization
- SDWAN product architecture/development/research
- Networking Hardware, OpenWRT customization and ecosystem (EDGE)
- Founded TrafficSqueezer (in the year 2006) an open-source WAN Optimization network stack
- TOFFEE (or The TOFFEE Project research) is a fork of TrafficSqueezer. For more details: Why TOFFEE is forked from TrafficSqueezer
- Founded The Linux Channel an YouTube Linux channel for advance Linux users, systems and network software programmers and tech enthusiasts
Besides things I am interested and currently engaged on:
- spiritualism, astrology
- sustainable living
- researching green technologies, going off-grid, micro-power generation for powering Wireless nodes and satellite/deep-space communication
- art and music
Some of the companies worked/served in the past:
- SMOAD Networks – served as CTO. SMOAD is a software-defined network (SD-WAN) solution that helps organizations build high-performance networks that are highly available, reliable, secure, and scalable to enhance their performance.
- Cavium, Inc – semiconductor company based in San Jose, California specializing in ARM-based and MIPS-based network, video and security processors and SoCs.
- MontaVista Software – acquired by Cavium, Inc. leader in embedded Linux commercialization, develops embedded Linux system software, development tools, and related software.
- Doublefish Solutions – served as CEO. An IT enabled services, product and research firm
- Akamai Technologies, Inc – world’s leading content delivery network (CDN) services provider for media and software delivery, and cloud security solutions.
- TATA ELXSI – an Indian design company and a part of the Tata Group. It provides design and technology services for product engineering and solutions across industries including broadcast, communications, and automotive.
- Pace plc – a British company who developed set-top boxes, advanced residential gateways, software and services for the pay-TV and broadband services industry. Pace’s customers included cable, telco, satellite and IPTV operators. Pace is now a part of ARRIS. ARRIS International plc.
- Accton Technology Corporation – a company in Taiwan that principally engages in the research, development, manufacture and distribution of Ethernet switches, wireless local area network (WLAN) products and Internet access products.
- Bivio Networks, Inc – Award-winning, high-performance Cyber Security Application Platforms for superior network intelligence and cyber defense.
- World Wide Packets, Inc – a carrier Ethernet company (in 2008 acquired by Ciena Corporation)
- Comodo Group, Inc – leading SSL Provider offers Free Antivirus, Internet Security, Firewall, Endpoint Security and other PC Security software for Windows & all OS.
