ROOPESH R. VARIER HOME ADDRESS : 1063 Morse Ave, APT #1-206 PHONE : (408) 230 . 2140 Sunnyvale, CA . 94089 EMAIL : rvarier@gmail.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OBJECTIVE To apply accrued programming and leadership experience in a challenging lead product development/product strategy position. PROFILE * Strong technical contributor with experience in architecting, designing and implementing QoS solutions in complex network topologies. * Lead multiple technical teams from feature set decision to delivery while meeting tight schedules. * Recognized numerous times on a company wide basis for the various contributions to the company growth including leadership on projects worked on by groups spanning multiple geographical locations. * Developed a novel TCP rate control mechanism for next generation product line. * Highly agile and comfortable in multitasking and finding solutions for challenging projects. * Excellent programming and debugging skills. Writing object oriented code, even in non-object oriented language. * Excellent understanding of network infrastructure and related technologies. * Aided Marketing team by performing competitive analysis and providing detailed reports as part of Marketing campaigns. * Programming: C, C++, Octeon (MIPS), Socket Programming, Libpcap * Operating Systems: RTOS (PSoS, Linux 2.6, Simple Executive), Solaris, Unix/Linux, Windows, DOS. * Networking: TCP/IP, VLAN, Redundancy Technologies and related solutions for QoS. EDUCATION Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Graduation: December 2001 M.S. in Computer Science G.P.A : 4.0 University Of Kerala, India Graduation: May 2000 B.S in Computer Science and Engineering G.P.A : 3.8 RELATED EXPERIENCE Packeteer Inc., Cupertino, California Software Development Manager (Infrastructure Team), Feb 2007 - Present * Responsible for the management of the Infrastructure team and their day-to-day operations including reviews, hiring and salary negotiations. * Responsible for interacting with the Product Management and Sales Engineers to negotiate and define the feature set for a new next generation product including authoring the ERS and aiding the definition of the PRD. * Responsible for the schedule, technical designs and delivery of a new next generation product. * Responsible for all design decisions related to Infrastructure in the current and next generation product line. * Member of core strategy team responsible for defining and negotiating the product line roadmap with the Product Management group. Technical Lead (Infrastructure Team), Oct 2004 - February 2007 * Responsible for the design, architecture and leading the technical team from product specification to implementation of a new product based on next generation technology. * Consultant Architect for the product integration implementation with M&A technologies. * Provide assistance both on a technical basis and making market pitches for Sales groups in making successful deals with various Global Fortune 500 companies including an ongoing deal of over $100 million with France Telecom. * Designed and implemented a generic next generation product framework including support for SMP and dynamic feature set addition as plugins during runtime. Senior Software Engineer (QoS & Infrastructure Team), Aug 2003 - Oct 2004 * Main architect to asses risks for product integration with M&A technologies. * Designed, Architected and Prototyped solutions for various issues in complex network topologies including compression and QoS. * Chief Engineer to evaluate competitive products and provide reports to the Executive Staff. Also responsible in this position to provide marketing and sales content/assistance to the required groups. * Developed proprietary method for rate control in the next generation product using Layer 4 manipulation. * Actively contributed to the Product Release Methodology and Software Lifecycle of the various products of the company including newly introduced product lines and regular maintenance releases as part of the committee responsible for framing and defining the involved steps. Software Project Release Manager, Mar 2003 - Aug 2003 * Lead multiple technical groups in various geographical locations from feature set decision to delivery of multiple projects. Worked with Marketing, Sales and Operations teams to define the functional specifications for these projects. * Maintained a record for always releasing the projects on time. * Oversaw the sustaining work for all the revenue generating products and helped in building/training a new Sustaining team without disrupting support for the operations team. Software Engineer (QoS), Mar 2002 - Mar 2003 * Developed feature to solve traffic synchronization issue in high availability network topology. * Interacted with customers to provide solutions and dissolve tense sales issues. * Evaluated and integrated third party compression algorithm into product.s main stream QoS logic without losing performance. Programmer Intern, May 2001 - Aug 2001 * Improved stability features within the product. * Implemented and tested new features for future product release. * Designed and implemented a simulator to study behavior of the product when new features are implemented. Rensselear Polytechnic Institute,New York Research Assistant, Aug 2000 - Dec 2001 * Implemented a working prototype solution for congestion control in core networks by providing control on an end-to-end basis. * Implemented simulation model for network management of TCP/IP flows using distributed computing. ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization),Kerala, India Designer & Programmer, Aug 1999 - May 2000 * Implemented Network Authentication within the Space Center using RSA as the backbone structure. * Studied, assessed, selected and designed the intracommunication protocol. University Of Kerala, India Webmaster, May 1999 - May 2000 * Lead and anchored a team of over 50 students to startup a website. * Designed, edited, tested, hosted and evaluated the web site. PENDING PATENTS * Aggregate Rate Control using PID (Proportional, Integral and Derivative) methodology. * Data Compression in Redundant Network Topologies and Synchronizing Network Traffic Control. * Dynamic Bandwidth Management Responsive to Access Link State in Redundant Network Topologies. * Network Traffic Synchronization Mechanism for Redundant Topologies to maintain QoS. * Network Link State Mirroring. * Aggregate Bandwidth Utilization Control Scheme. REFERENCES * Available upon request.