Rahul Ramachandran
Product Manager
Sunnyvale (94089) United States (California)
Professional Status
Employed
Available
About Me
Being in the fore-front of network security I specialize in helping out customers in reducing their pain points and deliver a smooth network experience.
• Product management activities including designing and developing products and solutions.
• Lead Technical Marketing Engineer - Enterprise and Branch Security and SD-WAN - Juniper Networks
• Sale enablement - Develop and train solutions and product offering to the SEs and Sales teams
• 5+ years of in-depth network security experience
• IT professional with near 10 years of work experience with excellent technical and managerial skills
• Worked extensively on customer profile testing and provided on-demand support to resolve customer issues
• Experienced in designing customer specific and market specific use-cases
• Worked in a Monitored Security Solutions provider environment in answering and providing technical support to customers
• Gained in-depth knowledge in network security solutions on both hardware and virtual platform
• Excellent communication skills
• Product management activities including designing and developing products and solutions.
• Lead Technical Marketing Engineer - Enterprise and Branch Security and SD-WAN - Juniper Networks
• Sale enablement - Develop and train solutions and product offering to the SEs and Sales teams
• 5+ years of in-depth network security experience
• IT professional with near 10 years of work experience with excellent technical and managerial skills
• Worked extensively on customer profile testing and provided on-demand support to resolve customer issues
• Experienced in designing customer specific and market specific use-cases
• Worked in a Monitored Security Solutions provider environment in answering and providing technical support to customers
• Gained in-depth knowledge in network security solutions on both hardware and virtual platform
• Excellent communication skills
Product Manager / Lead TME
Juniper Networks
Since November 2015
Full-time
Sunnyvale
United States - California
- Product management activities to evaluate market and business potentials for Distributed Enterprises and Secure SD-WAN solutions.
- 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.
- Expertise in Branch Security and Secure SD-WAN
- 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
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
- 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
- JNCIA Junos
- Certified Ethical Hacker (CEHv9)
- CCNA
- CCNP - Route/Switch
- 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
- 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 Risk Assessment
- NMAP, Nessus, Maltego, FOCA, CAIN,
- Backtrack/Kali Linux
- Metasploit Pro
- Perl, Shell
- Breaking Point Solution
- IXIA - IxExplorer, IxLoad
- Spirent - Test Center, Avalanche
- Open Source - Ostinato, Scapy, Wireshark, TCPreplay
- Windows (PC & Server)
- Linux - Debian (Ubuntu), Red Hat (RHEL, CentOS)
- Junos OS
- Advanced in Microsoft Office - Word, Powerpoint & Excel
- Experienced in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop
- Advanced in screen capture and video editing tools - Camtasia, Snagit
- Landscape, Urban and Portrait Photography
- https://www.intacti.com/