About

Rakesh Varudu is a Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience in building Network systems and Internet Applications. He is currently working at Cisco where he has gained expertise in Switching, Routing, and Load Balancers. He has a good understanding of SDN/NFV and Cloud computing concepts and has basic knowledge in Big Data processing and Machine Learning. Rakesh has development experience in C (expert), Basic skills in C++, Java, and Python. He is well-versed in various protocols such as OpenFlow, VLAN, VxLAN, STP, ARP, ICMP, IPV4, UDP, TCP, DNS, QoS, ACL, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VCCV BFD, SSL, Wireless protocols like - 3GPP 36.413 S1AP, 36.423 X2AP. He is also familiar with tools like tcpdump, Wireshark, gdb, Addtech/IXIA traffic generators, GIT/ClearCase/SVN repository management. Prior to joining Cisco, Rakesh has worked as a Student Research Assistant at Fraunhofer Fokus where he worked on Open5GCore platform, enhancing the quality of experience perceived by users during Handovers, and Load balancing mechanisms in virtual environments. He has also worked as a Student at EIT ICT Labs Master School, where he studied advanced networking technologies and architectures for the design and management of modern distributed computer systems and networks. Rakesh holds a Master's Degree in Internet Technology and Architecture from Technische Universität Berlin and EIT ICT Labs Master School. He has also completed a Summer School in Security and Privacy in Digital Life from the Università degli Studi di Trento. He has a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from SVH College of Engineering. Rakesh's tech stack includes Software Engineer, Big Data, ML, Python, Java, and Research Scientist. He has relevant experience of 9.70 years.