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Leading and hands-on management of a SaaS system and networking appliances for SD-WAN market from initial concept to full production. System running in production serving multiple enterprises and service providers in high-scale.

• The SaaS system written in Node.js/React/MongoDB/Redis/Elastic and provides management, monitoring, and autonomous decision-making. Installed in AWS.
• The appliances are Linux based, written in C and Python, delivering high-performance real-time traffic with traffic-optimization and security. Installed on appliances or cloud.

Leading the entire company technical aspects including architecting, coding, customer interfacing and managing of the Software, Testing, DevOps, and Technical Support teams.

Passionate about AI/ML, I have over 10 years hands-on experience in AI/ML. Reading recent papers, Implementing, Training and Utilizing models in production and for research:

• LLMs: LangChain/LangGraph Agentic AI workflows for user interaction and insights (flexiWAN)
• Audio & NLP: AI based Karaoke sample with vocal separation and chords/lyrics recognition. Implemented models for music generation (Research)
• Computer Vision: Anomaly event detection in surveillance cameras. GAN, Vision Transformers, Diffusion models for image/video generation and modification (Research)
• Reinforcement Learning: Sample agents for self-learning games (Research)
• Machine Learning: Clustering traffic patterns and anomaly detection (Cisco Systems). Text analysis sample for 100K movie similarities and topic extraction
• Big Data: Built analytics pipelines (Kafka, Spark) for adaptive traffic insights (Cisco Systems)

Led and architected big-data automation and analytics platform for traffic analysis, adaptive network insights, traffic optimization and security. Pioneered integration of traffic classifiers and automated QoS tuning, laying the foundation for Cisco’s intelligent, self-optimizing networks.

Collaborated with global teams across the US, Canada, India, China, and Europe, and strategic technology partners.

Led and architected Cisco's networking services platform, including hardware and software infrastructure to run services such as SBC, NAT/Firewall, DPI, etc on a high performance router. Leading the development of next generation distributed security and voice services.

Software development of a high bandwidth IEEE 802.17 concentrator (company acquired by Cisco). Inventor of patents in this area and a member of the IEEE 802.17 committee.

Developed an F-16 electronic warfare software. Granted with an excellent officer award and the project was submitted to the Air-Force General Award. Applied advanced signal processing and statistical techniques in real-time systems.

Developed hardware and software flight tests systems and telemetry.