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
M.A. Education
I.G.N.O.U, 2016
Ph.D Computer Science
Master of Technology (M.Tech) Computer Science and Engineering
B.E Instrumentation and Electronics Engineering
Experience
The Linux Foundation - Senior Architect, Technical Project Manager
April 2022 - PRESENT
- Manage DENT, eBPF Foundation, OPI and O-RAN-SC Projects
Spirent Communications - Senior Architect
October 2015 - March 2022
- 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
- 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.
Microsoft Innovation Center - Politechnico Di Torino - Research Fellow
June 2008 - March 2010
- Hello
Institute for Infocomm Research - Research Fellow
February 2016 - March 2016
- 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.
Selected Talks
AI/ML:
Mathematics for AI/ML
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Gödel's Theorem:
Proof of the Incompleteness Theorem by Kurt Gödel
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Kubernetes:
Everything about Kubernetes
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Bayes Theorem:
Understanding the Odds
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Cloud Computing:
All you wanted to know about Cloud
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Euler's Number:
e is everywhere
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Microservices:
An Introduction
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Relativity:
Relativity for the Billions
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Computational Thinking:
CS Without Computers
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Creativity:
Intuition Pumps by Daniel Dennett
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
Localized and distributed channel assignment scheme for IEEE 802.11 based MCMR networks
Sridhar K. N., Claudio Casetti, Carla-fabia Chiaserrini
Link Lifetimes: Distribution, Estimation and Applications
Sridhar K. N., Mun Choon Chan
Channel-aware Scheduling for Mobile Adhoc Networks
Sridhar K. N., Mun Choon Chan
EGRESS: Environment for Generating REalistic Scenarios for Simulations
Sridhar K. N., Hao Shuai, Mun Choon Chan, A.L., Ananda
Interference based Call Admission Control for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
Sridhar K. N., Mun Choon Chan
Specification and Verification of Network Protocols by Process Algebra,
Sridhar K.N., Ciobanu G.
Stability and Hopcount based Routing Mechanism for Mobile adhoc networks
Sridhar K. N., Mun Choon Chan
Describing IEEE 802.11 Wireless Mechanisms by Using the pi-Calculus and Performance Evaluation Process Algebra
Sridhar K. N., Gabriel Ciobanu
Performance Evaluation and Enhancement of Link Stability Based Routing for MANETs
Sridhar K. N., Lillykutty Jacob, Rajeev Shorey,
Proceedings of ICPP Workshops, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2004