Highlights

Manage and contribute to multiple opensource projects

Started Thoth opensource project - AI/ML for Networking

Contributor to IETF Draft (Considerations for Benchmarking Network Performance in Containerized Infrastructures)

Contributor to ETSI-NFV TST 009

Technology consultant to Telcos

Led multi-vendor real-world Telco edge-cloud deployment

Design solutions in the domain of AI/ML for Networking, NFV, Cloud and SDN

Specialize in building technical capability in organization

Conduct trainings and workshops on Kubernetes, Mathematics for AI/ML, and NFV/SDN

Research Publications in reputed conferences and journal

As Professor Emeritus, raised funds over 50L INR, for Academia

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Education

Experience

The Linux Foundation - Senior Architect, Technical Project Manager

April 2022 - PRESENT

The Linux Foundation is a non-profit organization established in 2000 to support Linux development and open-source software projects. After contributing to different opensource projects in the Linux Foundation, I decided to join the foundation itself as an Architect. I work with different communities managing few projects and exploring different aspects in the domain of Networking.
  • Manage DENT, eBPF Foundation, OPI and O-RAN-SC Projects

Spirent Communications - Senior Architect

October 2015 - March 2022

Working with Telcos in and around India and Contribution to the opensources
  • Deployment of multi-vendor Edge-Cloud for vEPC for Major Telco in India.
  • Technology Consultant for 10+ Telcos across the globe.
  • Kubernetes CNI Benchmarking for Telco Usecases.
  • NFV infrastructure benchmarking.
  • Live monitoring and End-to-End test automation for Telco clouds.
  • Edge-cloud Lifecyle Management – Automated Deployment and testing with Airship and OPNFV.
  • CNTT-RI – Deployment, Validation and Testing.Built production, online, end-to-end optimized machine learning pipelines for time-series prediction.
  • Defining SDN and NFV product roadmap
  • Contribution to OPNFV-VSPERF, OPNFV-CIRV, OPNFV-AIRSHIP
  • Demo at ONS-NA 2019. Talks at all LFN events over past 2 years.

NEC - Research Lead, Senior Architect, Associate General Manager

April 2010 - September 2015

Design, PoC Development, Technical Guidance, Application Proposal, indipendent contributions and research activities
  • Reverse-engineering of OpenStack Neutron Implementation – can be found at https://github.com/sknrao/openstack-neutron-revengg
  • Analysis of Bare-metal switches and its role in software-defined networking. Analysis of SDN-ecosystem development with respect to APIs, SDK, prospective products for interoperability, etc.
  • Analysis of Open-source SDN Controllers – Trema, NOX/POX, RYU, ODL, ONOS, Floodlight.
  • Following the NFV Standardization (Ecosystem) Process at ETSI and Openflow standardization at ONF. Technical Blogs at http://www.newstack.io and www.opennetsummit.org
  • Worked on Programmable-Flow Controllers – Design, PoC Development, and Technical Guidance for development team. Worked Extensively in Network Virtualization support in programmable flow-controllers – Hop-by-hop and Virtual Overlays. Reverse engineering of the complete controller architecture.Feature additions – Designs for scalability, Northbound APIs, Reusability of openflow-libraries across multiple controllers.
  • Working on Virtual Switches - Design, PoC Development, and Technical Guidance. Enhancements of OpenVswitch – statistics, remote configuration, rest-API support, etc. VSwitches for Hyper-V – OVS in Microsoft Hyper-V.
  • SDN-application development – Application Proposal and Technical Guidance. In-house development of various SDN-applications for OpenDayLight Platform: Yet Another Overlay Network, The Cable Guy, The Usher, etc. In-house development work on Openstack - Neutron agent, Events Management and Visualization.
  • On-Site Solution Designing – Independent Contributions. Communication architecture for Automatic Passenger Movers. Openflow in Handheld devices. Programmable Flow in Microsoft VSEM.

Institute for Infocomm Research - Research Fellow

February 2016 - March 2016

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  • Wireless Network Deployments - Design, development and deployment: WiMAX - IEEE 802.16 WiMaX Wireless Mesh Networks, for maritime communications.

Himachal Futuristic Communications Limited - Co-founder

July 2015 - January 2016

Matroid is a computer vision platform for creating and deploying detectors. Detectors help customers identify objects, events, or patterns in images and videos without requiring machine learning or coding expertise. I played a crucial role in defining the company's vision. I was responsible for architecting and building the initial product. I left shortly after the Series A to focus on Arthena.

  • Developed end to end machine learning pipeline to train visual classifiers from keywords using Caffe, Node.JS, Redis, MongoDB, and other technologies.

Skills

Note: I think these sections are silly, but everyone seems to have one. Here is a *mostly* honest overview of my skills.

Python
5 / 5
Docker
5 / 5
Git/Mercurial
4 / 5
Network Devices - Physical and Virtual
4 / 5
SDN Controllers
4 / 5
Bash
4 / 5
C
4 / 5
C++
4 / 5
ElasticSearch
4 / 5
Prometheus
4 / 5
Data Visualization
4 / 5
Jupyter
4 / 5
Matplotlib
4 / 5
Pandas
4 / 5
Pylint
4 / 5
Scikit-Learn
4 / 5
Kubernetes
4 / 5
Openstack
4 / 5
Data Mining
3 / 5
PyTorch
3 / 5
Tensorflow + Keras
3 / 5
HTML + SASS/SCSS/CSS
3 / 5
golang
3 / 5
MongoDB
3 / 5
PostgreSQL/SQLite3/SQL
3 / 5
Redis
3 / 5
Numpy
3 / 5
Julia
2 / 5
MATLAB
2 / 5
R
2 / 5
Javascript
2 / 5

Publication

Benchmarking Kubernetes Container-Networking for Telco Usecases

Sridhar K. N. Rao, Al Morton, Federica Paganelli,

IEEE Globecom, 2021

Real-time classroom sharing between schools: A novel distance education application to support rural education in India

Sridhar K. N., Usha Devi

IATED, 2013

Modeling link lifetime data with parametric regression models in MANETs”

Sridhar K. N., Mun Choon Chan

IEEE Communication Letters, 2009