About

Balachandar Rajarathinam is a highly experienced software engineer with over 25 years of experience in telecom and networking software development. He has expertise in real-time software architecture, design, development, quality assurance, and automation. He has also served as a team lead, technical manager, and talent acquisition specialist for multi-site R&D teams. Balachandar has extensive experience in collaborative software development for large and complex development teams, product marketing, product line management, TEC/TAC/TME, and pre-sales. He is well-versed in agile/scrum and waterfall software development methodologies and is certified as an Agile Scrum Master and Product Owner by Scrum Alliance. He has expertise in TL9000 quality standards. Balachandar's technical expertise includes data center Ethernet, IPDSLAM, PSTN, GSM, VoIP, SDH/SONET transport technology software development. He has extensive development expertise in L2/L3 forwarding modules in Cisco N7K family forwarding ASICs, L2 forwarding, L2 QoS modules in Broadcom StrataXGS Multilayer switch, PSTN Class 4 switch (CO, Access nodes), GSM TRAU, and Echo canceller software development. Balachandar has worked as an independent consultant for a stealth mode startup company where he has been involved in architecture, design, and implementation in P4 (Programmable dataplane) switch architecture. He has also worked on ONF P4 compiler As-a-Service in Node JS, P4 (RMT) switch bring up on BMv2, and P4 SONiC integration/validation. He has experience in full-stack (MEAN) software development. Balachandar has previously worked for Hewlett Packard as an Engineering Manager, leading a team of 23 engineers in Compute BU for HPE Integrated LightsOut BMC FW development in Security and PMCI subsystems. He has also worked for Marvell Semiconductor as a Staff Software Manager, leading a team of 33+ engineers driving Switching BU programs of Tier1 Customer (Cisco Enterprise / IoT switching) solutions, Marvell Prestera devices SDK development, and ARM porting of OCP SONiC NOS over SAI stack. Balachandar holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University. He is proficient in software engineering, NodeJS, senior software engineering, testing, quality assurance, and integration.