Kashmeera Shankar

KASHMEERA SHANKAR 13/6 Kavimani Street, Plot 80-A, Pankajam Colony Madurai, Tamilnadu-625009 - - Profile • 5.5 years of professional experience in Software industry • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Possess online searching skills and typing skills • Organized and possess multitasking skills • Prioritizes the tasks and completes the task within the deadline with no compromise on quality Work Experience Nokia Networks, Bengaluru, India, April 2011-April 2014, R&D Engineer  Worked on Nokia Networks proprietary Linux-based software platform called “Flexiplatform” that is deployed in telecom specific network elements like Radio Network Controller(RNC), Media GateWay(MGW) etc.  As a member of Technical Services team, handled various issues related to Signaling, License Management and Performance Management  Deployed MGW for Vodafone at customer sites across India and resolved critical issues arising at customer site with respect to FlexiPlatform, thereby avoiding network outage  Initiated root cause analysis of issues encountered at customer site  Worked in a cross-cultural team that spanned across the globe and organized meetings in a routine basis  Served as a liaison between the core development team and the customer and played a major role in coordination to resolve issues in a very short timeframe without any escalation  Handled issues raised by internal testing team and analysed if it is a potential bug before a pronto is raised  Played a vital role in upgrading a tool called “JIRA”, which is a bug-tracking software to analyse the quality and quantity of work done by team members  Created training material and delivered training sessions on various modules in Flexiplatform to users of Flexiplatform  Played a vital role in talent acquisition for my team Aricent Technologies, Bengaluru, India, May 2010-March 2011, Software Engineer  Worked on a component of 4G mobile core network called “LTE Serving Gateway” for Ericsson  Developed LTE network node simulators like MME(Mobile Management Entity), PGW(PDN Gateway) wherein the mode of communication between the nodes is through UDP connection  Developed CDF(Charging Data Function) server which communicates with SGW through TCP connection  Integrated all the nodes to establish signaling connection for UE(User Equipment)  Handled end-to-end performance testing of Serving Gateway(System Under Test) by creating test cases and executing them  Worked in scaling up the number of UEs’ to be connected to the network on the fly  Resolved issues in Serving Gateway related to performance tuning, thereby delivering a high quality and highly efficient product to the customer Aricent Technologies, Gurgaon, India, September 2008-May 2010, Software Engineer  Worked on Tekelec proprietary Signaling Transfer Point called “Eagle STP” which is a component of SS7 network  Owned the database module of a new enhancement feature for Eagle STP called “MTP routed GTT”  Created test plan, documented test cases and performed unit testing  Investigated and fixed issues related to Sigtran protocol stack in Eagle STP  Tested an enhancement feature called “SCTP protocol graceful shutdown” and fixed related issues  Documented feature test plan conforming to the SCTP RFC Relevant Skillsets Computer Skills Programming languages: Web development languages: Development IDEs: Tools: OS and Platforms: Protocols: C, C++ HTML, CSS, Javascript, PHP Eclipse, Microsoft Visual Studio, .NET Framework GDB, Nethawk, CVS, Clearcase, Valgrind, GCOV, GPROF Unix, Linux, Windows TCP, UDP, SS7 stack, SIGTRAN stack Transferable Skills  Proficient with Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word  Excellent written and oral communication skills  Long-term and short-term planning capacity for timely execution  Ability to contribute to the team as a leader or an effective team player  Create professional rapport  Organize workplace meetings and presentations  Receptive to attaining new expertise  Easily adaptable to any environment Activities • Served as the Placement representative during undergraduation acting as the liaison between students and recruiters • Organized various intra-departmental and inter-departmental contests • Participated and won awards in dance competitions • Involved in Corporate Social Responsibility(CSR) activities like rural visit, education awareness campaigns during three years of professional service • Mentored juniors in grooming up presentation skills Education Bachelor of Technology (Information Technology), April 2008, GPA 9.29/10, Anna University, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, Tamilnadu, India • University Topper during undergraduation • Recipient of “BEST OUTGOING STUDENT” award for the years- Courses Completed a course titled “The complete web developer course” from Coursera that helped me gain the basics of web development languages and provided hands-on experience in developing websites