About

Pramendra Kumar is a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco with over 11 years of experience in software development. He has worked on building 4G(LTE), 5G, Telecom domain, distributed cloud-native microservices, Networking, embedded software for wireless and fixed line products for market leaders like Cisco, Sadvine, Aricent, and more. At Cisco, Pramendra is a member of cnBNG (Cloud Native BNG) and Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) team and is one of the architects for conceptualizing Broadband Network Gateway control plane into a cloud-native environment considering the 12-factor methodology. He has good knowledge of the 5G Access Gateway Function (AGF) for Fixed-mobile convergence (FMC) and LTE-EPC and 5G Core Architecture. He is also well-versed with PFCP, GTPv2, GTP-C, Diameter(Gx, Rf, Ro), IPSEC, DHCP protocols, and PCEF/PCRF/OCS/OFCS (Policy & Charging) functionality. Pramendra has expertise in developing distributed microservices using Golang in a cloud-native environment using technologies like Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, gRPC, Etcd, and more. He is fluent in Golang, C, and Python and has experience in developing high-performance, fault-tolerant, and high-available systems. He also has sound knowledge and working experience on real-time systems including IPC, threads, mutexes, semaphores, etc. Apart from technical skills, Pramendra has experience in product ownership, team leadership, technical leadership, and system architecture. He has worked with companies like Sandvine and Cisco in the past. At Sandvine, he was a Senior Software Engineer, and at Cisco, he worked as a Software Engineer III. Pramendra holds a Master of Computer Applications (MCA) degree from B. M. S. College of Engineering. He is proficient in Kubernetes, Docker, Microservices, Golang, Mobile, Senior Software Engineer, Python, and Test. He has over 14 years of relevant experience in the field of software development.