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Publications
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Fi-Lab India: Stepping stone towards building fiware ecosystem in India
Fiware Foundation
See publicationIn this talk we discussed about our experiences and plans of setting up Fiware lab node in india by NEC Technologies India, and how it can help developing fiware ecosystem supporting strong IoT and smart city needs of india.
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Waste Management in India
FIWARE Tech Summit - Malaga
See publicationIn this paper we talked about waste management challenges in India, various initiatives and possible solution using FIWARE based open source platform for smart waste management.
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Challenges in creating a FIWARE Lab Node
FIWARE Tech Summit - Malaga
See publicationIn this talk we presented FIWARE Lab node introduction and steps to setup one node and associated challenges we faced.
Courses
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Developing Innovative Ideas for New Companies: The First Step in Entrepreneurship @ Coursera
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Introduction to people CMM by QAI
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Projects
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Digital Fertilizer (Predix Based IoT Application for Manufacturing Industry)
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Project Summary
- Collection of real time sensor data (~2000) sensors deployed in Urea Plant through DCS Controller (OPC-DA Compliant)
- Passing sensor data to Predix Cloud using Predix Machine in real time - Implemented Digital Twin for Fertilizer Plant Assets (Process Sections)
- Performing Anaytics on collected data for Predictive Maintenance, Production Optimization, Minimizing Planned Downtime etc.
Technologies/Tools Involved :
Predix Cloud (UI, Assets, UAA…Project Summary
- Collection of real time sensor data (~2000) sensors deployed in Urea Plant through DCS Controller (OPC-DA Compliant)
- Passing sensor data to Predix Cloud using Predix Machine in real time - Implemented Digital Twin for Fertilizer Plant Assets (Process Sections)
- Performing Anaytics on collected data for Predictive Maintenance, Production Optimization, Minimizing Planned Downtime etc.
Technologies/Tools Involved :
Predix Cloud (UI, Assets, UAA, Cloud Foundry, Timeseries, Edge Manager)
Predix Machine
Java Script, Java Spring Boot, HTML, CSS, Polymer, SaaS,
Python, Gulp, Bower, Maven, Git, Jenkins -
Practice Member – Solution Architect
Worked on following solutions & proposals:
o Solution which utilizes data from different sources e.g. on road camera’s, airport trolly sensors, taxi sensors, weather APIs and creating solution using big data ecosystem and NEC’s unique analytic products for airport passengers, airport staff and other stakeholders to optimize their day in day out operations.
o Solution for automated loitering detection by utilizing ‘NEC’s facial recognition software’ along with intel’s compute stick for…Worked on following solutions & proposals:
o Solution which utilizes data from different sources e.g. on road camera’s, airport trolly sensors, taxi sensors, weather APIs and creating solution using big data ecosystem and NEC’s unique analytic products for airport passengers, airport staff and other stakeholders to optimize their day in day out operations.
o Solution for automated loitering detection by utilizing ‘NEC’s facial recognition software’ along with intel’s compute stick for edge computing along with open source hadoop platform as backend analytics engine.
o Proposal for creating Reusable Big data platform using open source components (Hadoop ecosystem) and Extension of Kibana as visualization component
o Data Platform for Hadoop: Is a unique integration of Hortonworks Hadoop & NEC’s Private Cloud Product, offering pre-configured options for Big data setup. It uses heat templates for creating different types of big data nodes e.g. management node, master node, data node
o Reference Architecture for Hosted Private Clouds : A reference architecture for strategic cloud initiatives of NEC, for providing hosting services which involves integration of NEC’s Hardware incuding its openflow product (programmable flow switches & controller) with redhat OSP, redhat openshift & cloudforms
o Cloud Platform for IaaS:NEC’s distribution for cloud platforms which has a unique dashboard (Customized Horizon) which integrates redhat OSP and Ceph storage and provides an integrated solution for small and medium size private cloud customers.
oData Protection as Service: A proposal for extending NEC’s Backup appliance such that it can be offferred as backup service provider over cloud.
o File Level Restore: Proposal for a feature in HYDRAstor’s DDS volume backup
o Integration of Openstack Cinder and NEC’s Backup Appliance
- Attending various developer and user conferences e.g. Openstack Summit (Austin-2016), SNIA Conference (Santa Clara-2015) -
OpenStack & Cloud Platform for IaaS
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Heading a team of engineers providing technical support for openstack components i.e. Nova, Cinder, Swift, Horizon, Ceilometer, Nutron, Tempest, Docker, Puppet etc. for Canonical & RH distributions. Additionally supporting cloud platoform product for IaaS which integrates OpenStack & Ceph Storage.
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REST Interface development (swift & S3 compliant) for secondary storage
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Participated in design reviews for REST interface development for secondary storage (object storage) which will be swift & S3 compliant.
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Agentless Backup Software Development
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Managed development of Agentless backup software which supports Full/Incremental Backup & Restore of data directly from primary storage (SAN - RAID device) to Secondary Storage (Secondary Grid Storage) appliance, over iSCSI.
Technical skills used :
RAID, iSCSI, Block level IO Design involving buffer flow control & performance optimizations, De-duplication, C++, Python -
Maintenance of distributed storage appliance middleware layer
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Maintenance of large scale distributed storage appliance product having around 200KLOC code with mix of C/C++/Perl/Python/Shell. Key Enhancements/Developments includes :
- Migration of OS from RHEL4 to RHEL5 to RHEL6
- Change in software architecture to utilize improved HW capabilities
- Performance optimizations & scaling out various features of Grid Storage product
- Creation and maintenance of installer & upgrade packages for entire product
- Maintenance of high availability…Maintenance of large scale distributed storage appliance product having around 200KLOC code with mix of C/C++/Perl/Python/Shell. Key Enhancements/Developments includes :
- Migration of OS from RHEL4 to RHEL5 to RHEL6
- Change in software architecture to utilize improved HW capabilities
- Performance optimizations & scaling out various features of Grid Storage product
- Creation and maintenance of installer & upgrade packages for entire product
- Maintenance of high availability software for Grid Storage
- Enhancements & Bug Fixes
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Industrial Applications Rationalization
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Project Objective was to optimize portfolio of industrial applications (Including PLC/SCADA/DCS/Metering/BTG/BOP equipments) across different business units (generation, transmission, distribution) of energy vertical at one of the biggest power sector player Adani. It was not just technically challenging to create and analyze application portfolio of diverse applications (1500+ application instances) but also much of a learning experience dealing with heads of different businesses and…
Project Objective was to optimize portfolio of industrial applications (Including PLC/SCADA/DCS/Metering/BTG/BOP equipments) across different business units (generation, transmission, distribution) of energy vertical at one of the biggest power sector player Adani. It was not just technically challenging to create and analyze application portfolio of diverse applications (1500+ application instances) but also much of a learning experience dealing with heads of different businesses and presenting them the findings and chalking down roadmap for optimizing cost, utilization and value of such portfolio. As part of this project created standard SCADA guidelines to be followed by each business to rationalize vendors and cost.
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Data De-duplication improvements
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Analyzing various backup applications and development of separate state machines corresponding to those backup applications for improving data deduplication by isolating data & metadata. It was a kernel module written in C.
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Development & Maintenance of Management Interface for distributed storage backend
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Development & Maintenance of Software layer which positions itself between backend & front end of a distributed storage product. Key technologies: C++
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Data Scrubbing feature development
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Developing a feature for storage product, which petrols data on periodic interval for any kind of corruption and attempts for heeling automatically.
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Functional Test Automation & Tools development
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Developed various automated tests for backend software functional testing & tools (backup simulator, metadata editor for hot fixes, dedup estimator) . Key Technologies: STAF/STAX, Python, pylint, boost.python etc.
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Porting Storage Backend Software from 32bit to 64bit
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Porting of C++ software (around 60KLOC) from 32bit to 64bit architecture
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Implement security between Guest to Host communication by modifying Ethernet bridge driver in XEN environment
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An experiment conducted by Research lab; to provide additional security in XEN inter OS network communication. It required modification of Ethernet bridge driver of the linux system. MAC packets were encapsulated further in a custom protocol similar as described in RFC 4303, IP packets are to be filtered based upon certain conditions and features like access control, confidentiality and integrity are provided on the Ethernet bridge driver.
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Spying Software for Windows OS
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A spying software (enterprise product) for windows machines which is responsible for spying different kind of activities running on a desktop i.e. file access, web-browsing, mail or ftp communications, printer usage etc. It involves C++ programming and security concepts and some hacking concepts (API Hooking) to cheat windows operating system for spying activities performed by OS. I personally enjoyed developing and inserting an LSP(layered service provider) to collect network traffic below…
A spying software (enterprise product) for windows machines which is responsible for spying different kind of activities running on a desktop i.e. file access, web-browsing, mail or ftp communications, printer usage etc. It involves C++ programming and security concepts and some hacking concepts (API Hooking) to cheat windows operating system for spying activities performed by OS. I personally enjoyed developing and inserting an LSP(layered service provider) to collect network traffic below transport layer to form knowledge about network communications in host system.
Honors & Awards
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Featured by Silicon India
Silicon India
https://startup.siliconindia.com/vendor/futops-technologies-uniquely-developing-open-source-based-computer-vision-platform-cid-17571.html
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FIWARE Evangelist
FIWARE
https://www.fiware.org/community/evangelists/
FIWARE Community has recognized as FIWARE evanglist which entitles for opportunities to speak at FIWARE events, such as the FIWARE Global Summit., Get access to the latest news around FIWARE and its technology, Work hand in hand with our network of FIWARE iHubs, Represent FIWARE in public and digital spaces, Share the FIWARE Foundations’ plans for the future to keep driving the Community.
As an FIWARE Evangelists, I am responsible for…https://www.fiware.org/community/evangelists/
FIWARE Community has recognized as FIWARE evanglist which entitles for opportunities to speak at FIWARE events, such as the FIWARE Global Summit., Get access to the latest news around FIWARE and its technology, Work hand in hand with our network of FIWARE iHubs, Represent FIWARE in public and digital spaces, Share the FIWARE Foundations’ plans for the future to keep driving the Community.
As an FIWARE Evangelists, I am responsible for Helping enlarge the reach of FIWARE Ecosystem,
Gaining visibility and recognition as a FIWARE representative and Become a reference point for the FIWARE Community. -
Leadership Award
NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
Annual leadership Award
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Manager of Quarter(JFM,15)
CEO and MD, NEC Technologies India Pvt. Ltd.
This is a organization wide quarterly recognition of exceptionally well managed and balanced team. Outstanding team performance during tough times and delivering high value to customer.
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Project Manager(Technical) of the Year - 2011
NEC HCL System Technologies
This is a recognition of best project manager in entire organization for the year, judged based on various parameters like excellence in technical leadership, people management, delivery management and other project management activities.
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Project Lead(Technical) of year - 2010
NEC HCL System Technologies
This award is recognition of demonstration of best results among all project leaders within organization for the year.
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Foundation day award for Extra ordinary contribution -2008
NEC HCL System Technologies
This award was given for being shining embodiment of NEC HCL ST core values of Customer care, Positive attitude, Innovation & quality since year 2006.
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Annual Award - 2007
NEC HCL System Technologies
For being shining embodiment of NEC HCL ST core values of Customer care, Positive attitude, Innovation & Quality
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OSCAR Award - AMJ(2006)
NEC HCL System Tehcnologies
For demonstrating core engineering values and making significant impact in project & organization success - AMJ quarter - 2006.
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Gold Medal
Ravishankar University, Raipur
Chhayadas gupta gold medal for first position in B.Sc. Maths 2001 batch. http://www.prsu.ac.in:8011/notice/Temp/JAN2014/101Devgm8512.pdf
Test Scores
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Predix Solutions Archiect Certification Exam
Score: 53/60
Predix Solutions Architect Certification Exam Score : 53/60
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