About

Vishal Dhage is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services with over 10 years of experience in software design and development. His expertise lies in networking and operating systems, with a complete understanding of the packet flow in ASIC-based routing/switching platforms. Vishal has worked in the complete software life cycle development and is well-versed in the software quality model and process. He has strong programming skills in C and C++ and knowledge of various embedded platforms such as ARM7TDMI architecture and AVR series microcontrollers. Vishal has a keen interest in mathematics and probability theory. Vishal's specialties include programming languages such as C, C++, and Python, standards like IEEE 802.1 q, 802.1 ad, 802.1 AX, and protocols like STP, IGMP, PIM, FEX, LACP, multichassis LACP, TCP/IP, UDP, BGP, OSPF, and RIP. He is also experienced in network optimization and management tools such as Ixia traffic generator, Zebra Daemon, Wireshark, Opnet, ttcp, and iperf, as well as tools and IDEs like Xamarin Studio, Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, ClearQuest/Cleartool, MATLAB, Gprof, and GDB. In his current role at Amazon, Vishal is responsible for EC2 Networking, Elastic Load Balancing, and a distributed, highly available, and scalable NFV platform that powers AWS products such as Network Load Balancer, Managed NAT, and AWS PrivateLink for connectivity across Virtual Private Cloud. Prior to Amazon, Vishal worked at Cisco (Insieme) as a Technical Lead Engineer, where he designed and developed various data center features for the Nexus 9K product line within the Insieme group. He also worked at Cisco Systems (Enterprise Switching Group) as a Software Engineer, where he worked on the solution for converged wired and wireless access for Enterprise switching technology on Next Generation Doppler ASIC-based Catalyst 3K platforms. Vishal holds a Master of Science (M.S.) in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from the University of Mumbai. His tech stack includes software engineering, web development, AWS, Python, Spring, search, testing, Docker, NoSQL, SQL, Spring Boot, microservices, Redis, JavaScript, MySQL,