About

Amit Bhalerao is a highly skilled Software Engineer with over 7 years of experience in the field of software development and networking. Currently working at Cisco as a Software Engineer in the Customer Experience & Delivery team, he is responsible for leading the end-to-end QA activities that include test planning, qualifying products through test validation, test automation development, and execution of the next generation of routing & packet-optical products for the Service Provider & WebOTT segment. Amit's experience includes customer network profile feature configuration & testing, interaction with development teams, resolving software release issues, and test automation development. He has also worked on projects like SDN, IPv6 addressing, RFC packet classification algorithm, and WebRTC during his MS degree. Additionally, he has done MS Thesis research in Joint Application-Network layers Load Balancing in Data Center Networks. Amit's skills include proficiency in programming languages such as C, C++, Java, Python, ARM Assembly & Neon Intrinsic, and Linux. He is experienced with Segment Routing, SDN, NFV, OpenFlow, Layer 2/L3 Networking, TCP/UDP, BGP, ISIS, and MPLS. He is also proficient in algorithm development, software optimization/performance improvement, software quality assurance process & documentation, self-review/peer review checklist, test plan and report, and complete SDLC. Amit has the ability to debug medium to complicated network system-level issues, reproduce and debug customer issues, and handle field queries. He has worked on multimedia solutions like HEVC (H.265) Encoder & Decoder. He is also experienced with version control & defects tracking tools such as Tortoise CVS, SVN, and Bugzilla. Amit's educational background includes a Master's degree in Computer Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering (BE) in Electronics and Telecommunication from the Pune Institute of Computer Technology. He also has a High School degree in Science from Fergusson College. Overall, Amit Bhalerao is a highly skilled Software Engineer with a broad range of experience in software development and networking. He is always looking for challenging opportunities to further develop his skills and knowledge in the field.