Rahul Ramachandran
Product Manager
Sunnyvale (94089) United States (California)
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Innovator, idealist and strategist with a keen eye for business growth plan & strategies.
Seasoned product manager with high level of technical and business knowledge to get any product/solutions to its highest potential, with primary focus on customer/user experience.
Seasoned product manager with high level of technical and business knowledge to get any product/solutions to its highest potential, with primary focus on customer/user experience.
Experience
Product Line Manager
Juniper Networks
Since January 2019
Full-time
Sunnyvale
United States - California
- Define product requirements and manage Juniper's next-generation firewalls and SD-WAN solution.
- Evaluate market and business potentials for network security and secure SD-WAN solutions.
- Develop and drive distributed enterprises 5G strategy and craft the future of branch connectivity.
- Drive product positioning, messaging and manage go-to-market activities.
- Expertise in Network Security solutions and secure SD-WAN.
- Work closely with engineering teams to drive product design and development.
- Interact with customers and partners to showcase Juniper's solution and gather requirements to design simplified solutions.
Lead Technical Marketing Engineer
Juniper Networks
November 2015
to December 2018
Full-time
Sunnyvale
United States - California
- Define new solutions and extend/customize reference solutions.
- Engage in technical customer meetings, including detailed product overview/demos, and in-depth technical conversations.
- Engage in GTM activities including design of marketing materials for new products and solutions
- Develop and conduct technical field training and solutions deep dive for sales team and customers.
- Perform business and technical competitive analysis including Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and others.
- Work with engineering to design, implement and improve features and solutions.
Test Engineer
Juniper Networks
September 2013
to November 2015
Full-time
Sunnyvale
United States - California
- Designed and executed customer profile use-cases and test plans.
- Tested end-to-end firewall features and services such as Polices, NAT, AppSecure, UTM, IDP, IPsec VPN, HA of Juniper SRX Firewalls.
- Performed firewall capability testing in a simulated environment using 3rd party tools, viz. Breaking Point, Ixia - IxExplorer/IxLoad and Spirent.
- Designed complex automation test infrastructure for the team and writing automation scripts in Perl for performing test execution.
- Mentored interns and new hires by providing training and guidance.
MSS Security Engineer
Symantec Corp
June 2013
to September 2013
Full-time
Herndon
United States - Virginia
- Provided technical support to customers to monitor and manage their network and security devices
- Provided on-demand support to customers by live troubleshooting and resolving network issues
Engineering Intern
Affirmed Networks
June 2012
to December 2012
Internship
Acton
United States - Massachusetts
- Testing telecom services such as MMS, Video and Image transcoding on an end to end call flow
- Developed and maintained log management automation tools using LAMP (Perl) stack
Test Engineer
Infosys Limited
June 2008
to August 2011
Full-time
Chennai
India
- Prepared Test Plan, Design Document and generated Test Cases
- Created Business Components for automation test cases using BPT framework in QTP
- Managed a team of 10 by delegating and coordinating tasks, handling training sessions for new joiners
- Periodic tracking and maintenance of defects, created and maintained Defect Prevention Plan document
Skills
Publications
- Android Anti-Virus Analysis, ASIA 2012 (Academic Track of NYS Cyber Security Conference, 2012) (Best Paper)
- Best Security Practices for Android, BlackBerry and iOS, IEEE SECON, 2012
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Application Note: Ethernet Switching on SRX Branch Series - URL
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/release-independent/solutions/information-products/pathway-pages/ethernet_switching_srx_app_note.pdf
Certification
- JNCIS-SEC
- JNCIA Junos
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv9)
- CCNA
- CCNP - Route/Switch
Cloud Computing
- Virtualization technologies - VMware ESXi, KVM
- Public Cloud - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure
- Cloud Solutions - Private, Hybrid and Public Cloud designing and migration
- Security-as-a-Serice (SaaS) and Managed Security Solutions
- Understanding of VMXNET3, DPDK, VirtIO
Network Security
- Secure SD-WAN
- Application Security - Identification, Firewalling, App Quality of Service
- UTM - Web Filtering, Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam
- NAT
- Intrusion Prevention (IPS)
- Application Layer Gateways
- Virtual Private Networks - IPSec
- Firewall Policing/Filter/Authentication
- DDoS Prevention
Security Tools
- Security Risk Assessment
- NMAP, Nessus, Maltego, FOCA, CAIN,
- Backtrack/Kali Linux
- Metasploit Pro
Scripting Languages
- Perl, Shell
Network Test Tools
- Breaking Point Solution
- IXIA - IxExplorer, IxLoad
- Spirent - Test Center, Avalanche
- Open Source - Ostinato, Scapy, Wireshark, TCPreplay
Operating System
- Windows (PC & Server)
- Linux - Debian (Ubuntu), Red Hat (RHEL, CentOS)
- Junos OS
Tools
- Advanced in Microsoft Office - Word, Powerpoint & Excel
- Experienced in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
- Advanced in screen capture and video editing tools - Camtasia, Snagit
Education
Master of Science in Networking and System Administration
Rochester Institute of Technology, NY
September 2011
to May 2013
Research Assistant, Mobile Anti-Spyware Analysis
• Research on Security aspects of various Anti-Malwares on the Android Operating System
• Analyzing the operating functionalities of Malware and Anti-Malware applications
• Research on Security aspects of various Anti-Malwares on the Android Operating System
• Analyzing the operating functionalities of Malware and Anti-Malware applications
Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication
Anna University
September 2004
to May 2008
Interests
Arts
- Landscape, Urban and Portrait Photography
- https://www.intacti.com/