Shiva Amrit A

shiva.avasarala@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/shivaamrit

WORK EXPERIENCE

SKILLS

Nuviso Networks, Bangalore Software Developer

SDN, NFV, Openstack, Service

Orchestration, OpenDaylight, yang,
NETCONF, RESTCONF, OASIS TOSCA.

Worked on two major products- Nuviso Interlude and Nuviso Allegro.

Java, C, C++

September 2015 - PRESENT

Nuviso Interlude -Offers a programmable interface to traditional

networking gear without any forklift or image upgrades.

Responsible for core framework features like :1.

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Device discovery using ping sweep and SNMP

Configuration Reconciliation
Yang modeling of services like L2VPN, Interface creation etc.
Framework to map the yang models to the device CLI.
Drove the software architecture to take a distributed approach.
Implemented a JSM mechanism to achieve this.
Plugin Inheritance- deriving a composite plugin from multiple
child plugins (This plugin driven architecture is patent
pending).
File system monitoring for detecting
addition/deletion/modification of file and acting on them.

Nuviso-Allegro - Provides a unified view of the SDN network, and

integrates with Consonance (app repository in the Symphony Suite) to
provide life-cycle management of SDN Apps.
Responsible for core framework features like :1.
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Seamless migration of application during yang upgrades from

one version to another
Latency based path creation and management.

Other work at Nuviso :1.

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Wrote a spingboot application for monitoring memory and

health statistics of linux HA cluster, war/jar/kar file upgrades
on remote server.
Responsible for code optimizations and bug fixing

spring boot, hibernate, maven, REST,

Git.
MySql, MongoDB, Elastic Search
Algorithms, Data Structures

LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, Hindi, Kannada,
Telugu, Tamil, Marathi

AWARDS
Paper Presentation Events:1.

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Winner at Electrama 2014 held

at East Point College of
Engineering and Technology,
Bangalore.
Winner at Furor 2.0 held at SRM
University, Chennai

Coding fests:1.

Winner of University coding fest

at Aarush 2013.

Business Plan Events

1.

Finalist at Ventura 2014 held at

NIT-Trichy

Unisys, Bangalore consultant 4

June 2015 - September 2015

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Worked on one major products LMS-NGRFC .

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LMS-NGRFC - logistics management for air cargo companies like Air

Canada, Delta etc

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Responsibilities and Experience :1. Used MVC/DAO design pattern to develop/enhance modules
2. Worked with BRMS rules Engine

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
June 2013 - June 2014

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO, Govt of

India) Funded Project Project on Securing AODV protocol.

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Winner in extempore in
Independence Day celebrations
2011
Radio Jockey for community
radio SRM Muthucharam 90.4
Producer & Creative Writer for
radio show Wack-a-Doodle.
Trained in Carnatic classical
music (vocal). Eligible for the
junior level exam conducted by
the government of Karnataka.
Lead guitarist at school and
college band
School tennis team captain.

Responsibilities and Experience :1.

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Extensive research and understanding of AODV protocol.

Understanding the requirement and driving discussions on
realizing the requirements.
Implementing Diffie-Hellman key exchange
Measuring, extracting RSS data values and acting on the result.
Adding Netlink socket support for the Linux kernel
Driving the demo to DRDO research scientists.

CONFERENCE AND JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

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International Conference on Information Science 2014 (CSI

Conference Number:8542) Paper Title Kernel Compatibility of
AODV Protocol ISBN Number: 978-93-83459-57-5
National Conference on Software Defined Networking SDNC,
2016. Paper Title:- Dynamic Load Balancing in a Software
Defined Network. Paper Link
Securing AODV protocol (Under review for Conference) Paper
Link

EDUCATION
SRM University, Chennai Bachelor of Technology
August 2011 - May 2015

CGPA: 9.136/ 10

SOCIAL WORK
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Started a group called HEAL in

college to help children,
typically students suffering
from alcohol abuse by parents.
We meet once a week under the
guidance of a trained
professional to discuss
children's issues.
As a part of community radio
SRM Muthucharam 90.4 I was a
part a program that focused on
raising awareness on issues of
health, hygiene, education,
child rights etc

DAV Boys Senior Secondary School, Chennai

June 2008 - June 2011

10th Grade :- 94.6%

Math :- A+, Science :- A+
12th Grade :- 87%
Math:- A, Physics:- A+, Chemistry:- A+, Computer Science:- A

PROJECTS
Load Balancer in SDN
Details:1.

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Implemented a load balancer application in SDN using the

opendaylight controller. The application sits in the controllers
OSGI bundle as a karaf file.
Identified latency and resource utilization as parameters to
derive an algorithm which then steers the traffic through the
best path among the available paths.

University Rental website

Details:1. Developed entire concept for the startup.
2. Executed the planning, Risk Analysis, initial requirements etc
3. Realized the concept using php.

INTERNSHIPS
Unisys, Bangalore Intern
january 2015 - June 2015

LMS-NGRFC - logistics management for air cargo companies.

Responsibilities and Experience :1.
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Understood transportation domain from a software perspective

Used JSF to implement component based UI.