About

Santosh A is a highly experienced Senior SDET at Microsoft with over 17 years of enriched experience in software engineering and QA project management. He has expertise in 5G microservices, datacom (switching, routing & security), and 4G packet core in virtualized environments (Vmware, KVM), CI/CD based automation frameworks, and customer escalations. Santosh has worked with Tier-1 customers such as VzW, ATT, TMO, Vodafone, STC, Reliance, and KDDI, managing their release cycles and post-release escalations. He has strong knowledge of IPv4/IPv6, TCP/IP full stack, L3 routing protocols, VLAN networking, and MPLS. He has hands-on experience on load-balancing, link-aggregation, and ECMP, as well as SPI and DPI for various protocols including HTTP, TCP, UDP, FTP, WAP, RTP/RTSP. He also has experience in network security, firewall, TLS, DDOS, NAT, CGNAT, and IPSec. Santosh is a trusted and decisive leader with the skills to motivate teams to excel and win. He has experience working with Agile and Waterfall models of software development cycles. He is also an efficient organizer, motivator, and team player. Santosh has a Master's degree in E&ECE from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and a Bachelor's degree in MIT from Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad. His tech stack includes test, SDET, microservices, QA, CI/CD, Selenium, Docker, Jenkins, software engineering, AWS, Java, Flask, integration, backend, Python, Kubernetes, DevOps, GCP, UI, P2P, frontend, infra, ECS, Javascript, and ML. With almost 18 years of relevant experience, Santosh is a valuable asset to any team.