Vishwas Rajashekar

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I’m Vishwas. I’m a complete-stack software engineer currently working on cloud platform software at my day job.

Oh? complete-stack?

Glad you asked! That means that along with being a full-stack engineer, I fortunately, or unfortunately, also like working on things above and below the usual stack :)

I enjoy tinkering with devices, operating systems, virtual machines, containers, physical networks, CI/CD, observability, and telemetry.

Experience Link to heading

Akamai | Senior Software Engineer I | December 2024 - Present Link to heading

Working in a super-cool team on cloud platform projects. PS: I just started recently :)

Cisco | Software Engineer III | October 2023 - December 2024 Link to heading

Working in an agile team in Cisco Wireless on full-stack contributions to a cloud-based enterprise network management solution Cisco Meraki Dashboard.

Requirements analysis, planning, estimation, for customer-facing features and functionality.
Designing, implementing, evaluating, and testing technical solutions.
Collaborating with other geographically distributed development, quality assurance, and site reliability engineering teams.
Documenting and presenting key technical solutions to various stakeholders.
Implementing and maintaining critical lab networking and compute infrastructure.

Cisco | Software Engineer II | July 2022 - October 2023 Link to heading

Worked in a larger team of development and quality assurance professionals in Cisco Wireless on full-stack contributions to Cisco Catalyst Center.

Ownership of feature development and maintenance on an internal component of the product.
Development of a new testing harness for database migrations improving the developer experience and quality of migration code.
Delivered multiple features and bug-fixes in the areas of network configuration, serviceability, system optimization, and automation.
Managed and maintained compute and network resources such as virtualization servers and network equipment to ensure reliability and security with minimal downtime and impact.

Cisco | Software Engineer I | August 2021 - July 2022 Link to heading

Worked in a dynamic development team on backend contributions to Cisco Catalyst Center.

Database modelling and system optimization work that significantly reduced system memory consumption and storage usage.
Exploratory work with Java web application framework Quarkus.

Cisco | Technical Undergraduate Intern | January 2021 - July 2021 Link to heading

Worked in a small development team on backend contributions to Cisco Catalyst Center.

Rapid ramp-up and learning of new development tools, technologies, and wireless domain knowledge.
Worked on a component of the application that allows customers to configure advanced network parameters on their network infrastructure.

PES Innovation Lab | Lab Head | October 2019 - January 2021 Link to heading

Operational management in the areas of community development, events, and logistics.
Responsible for technical operations of the community.
Worked on revamping and maintaining the lab’s website to better showcase the community’s project work, members, and events.
Successfully organized annual events - Incito, Summer Internship 2020, and HashCode 2020 during the challenges and uncertainty of a global pandemic.

PES Innovation Lab | Project Mentor | June 2020 - July 2020 Link to heading

Technical mentor for a team of undergraduate students working on a project that aims to design a new infrastructure to provide real-time sensor data to multiple clients using cloud computing.
Guided the team to complete a working prototype of the system within 8 weeks.
The project was presented to university faculty and experts from industry.

PES Innovation Lab | Summer Intern | June 2019 - July 2019 Link to heading

Worked in a team of 4 on a project titled : Apathetic ML - Cloud Agnostic, Distributed Machine Learning
Demonstrated that it is possible to speed up the training for some models by up to 50% by having multiple compute nodes working on the problem in parallel without a significant loss in accuracy.
Demonstrated the flexibility of the solution by running the same system on a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster as well as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
Attended IEEE Conecct 2019 at IIIT-Bangalore to showcase the project at the exhibition.

PES University CDSAML | Summer Intern | June 2018 - July 2018 Link to heading

Worked on a solo project titled Biometric Analysis.
The project was carried out under the guidance of the Chairperson, Department of CSE, PES University, Bangalore.
The project involved using Gait Analysis to get information about a person’s walking style and to use this data for further research in the domains of forensic analysis.
The work was presented at the ICICV 2020 conference in Manipal University, Jaipur.