About

Rakesh Kumar Aggarwal is a highly skilled Principal Application Engineer with over 12 years of experience in C/C++ based product development and support. Currently working with Broadcom Limited, Rakesh has extensive experience with DNX devices such as Jericho-2, Jericho, Qumran, and Arad+ and the Broadcom SDK. He delivers Broadcom product training to customers and supports them to build their products faster. Before joining Broadcom, Rakesh worked as a Software Engineer for Cisco System India Pvt. Ltd. Bangalore, where he gained significant experience in multicast (Native IPv4, IPv6, MVPNv4 and MVPNv6). He also worked for 4 years as a Software Engineer with Computer Associates (CA) India Technology Centre (ITC), Hyderabad, where he gained expertise in Security, Cryptography, and SSL domain for C/C++ projects with product-based company Computer Associates (CA). Rakesh has a wide range of skill sets, including debugger tools like GDB, DBX, Dtrace, Windbg, Visual Studio, Valgrind, and purify. He is proficient in various programming languages such as C, C++, JAVA, Fortran, Shell Script, Java Script, Perl, VHDL, Verilog, Assembly for 8085, 8051, 8052, ARM, TMS320F240X, SQL, and Batch Files. He has experience with various operating systems such as Windows (2000, 2003, XP, and VISTA), RHEL, SuSE, AIX, HP-UX, Mac, FreeBSD, z/OS (mainframe), and Cisco IOS (Internetwork Operating System). Rakesh has worked with various build tools such as GNU Make, Ant, and jam. He is proficient in using tools like VMware 5.0, Cygwin, putty, Vim, Fortify 360 Security Scan, Eclipse, and IXIA. He has experience with source repositories like CA-Harvest, WinCVS, Turtle CVS, Clearcase (CCTool), and acme. He has also worked with application software like MATLAB, PSPICE, and SEQUEL. Rakesh has experience with databases like MSSQL and Oracle. He has expertise in networking standards such as PIM (DM, SM, SSM), IGMP, MLDP, Native-Multicast, Multicast-VPN, OSPF, BGP, etc