United States

Product Design

Back-end

Data engineering

AI/ML Engineering

Security Engineering

Bachelor's degree

Seshagirirao Lekkala

Senior Software Engineer

Public Speaking

Product strategy

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Team player

Conflict resolution

Leadership

Analytical skills

AI/ML

Cloud computing

Database management

Design systems

Machine learning

Postman

Python

Axure

Docker

GitHub

Golang (Go)

Java

Jira

Jenkins

gRPC

REST API

Empathy

Stakeholder management

Communication

Collaboration

Time management

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Customer service

Project management

Advanced data analytics

Conversational AI

Negotiation

Data mining

Data visualisation

Product roadmap

Introduce yourself, define mentoring expectations and goals. Learn and grow together.

General mentorship

Making remote and globally distributed teams work for you and your needs.

Working remotely

Learn essential burnout prevention techniques and replenish physical and emotional energy.

Managing burnout

Talk to people who have learned to manage their imposter syndrome.

Dealing with imposter syndrome

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to successfully prepare and position yourself for a job promotion?

How to get promoted

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

How to think about design career paths and what progression looks like for designers?

Design career path

Learn the career path and progression for product managers.

Product management career path

Get actionable feedback on your resume or portfolio.

Resume and portfolio review

Practice HR, technical and behavioural interviews with mentors.

Practice mock interviews

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

How to set up the team for success by defining and measuring team's performance.

Choosing metrics and team goals

Best practices for running productive design critiques.

Running effective design critiques

How to define and execute a successful launch and managing stakeholders expectations. (eg. MVP)

Launching new products or features

Methods of prototyping and solution validation. When to use which kind of prototype (eg. Webflow, Notion, etc)

Prototyping methods and tips

Manage team expectations and get the most out of your meetings.

Running effective meetings

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Methods and models of exploring, deciding and delivering design.

Building a design process

Managing being the only designer at your company and working with non-designers.

Being the only designer

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

Ways and resources to improve your design skills.

Improving design skills

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

How to create personas, and leverage them in design.

Creating and leveraging user personas

Ways to provide constructive feedback to team members.

Giving effective feedback

How to define an ambitious product vision and how to best communicate it to stakeholders?

Creating a product vision

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

What is a successful user onboarding flow and how to achieve it?

Onboarding new users

Best practices for documenting projects, epics, and stories

Writing product requirement documents

How to conduct interviews, what to ask, and how to analyze your results? (eg. user interview)

Conducting effective customer interviews

How to maintain trust, commitment, accountability deliver results while handling conflict

Avoiding common dysfunctions

How to determine what is a good balance of skill sets for your organization's needs

Building balanced teams

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Led the implementation of SDWAN secure control connections infrastructure, successfully establishing and maintaining secure channels on up to 10,000 edge devices, orchestrators, SDN controllers, and NMS Servers per deployment.

Led design and development of Hierarchical-SDWAN and Multi-Tenant features, enabling organizations to achieve secure connectivity and robust management capabilities across multiple network tiers.
 
Successfully containerized the control connection bring-up module, creating a SaaS-based SDWAN solution that improved scalability, system performance, and customer adaptation rate.

Revamped the SDWAN Deep Packet Inspection infrastructure by pre-processing telemetry data from Edge devices, effectively reducing overhead on the NMS server and making telemetry 30% faster.

Enabled cloud-based deployments for the Catalyst (Cat9k) switching platform using Meraki Cloud to enhance security and simplify the provisioning process for customers.

Worked on bring up of high-density bandwidth links like 400G for Cisco's IOS-XE and IOS-XR Network stacks to manage network traffic surge from the growing demand for online services.

Worked on Broad bring up for Cisco Enterprise switching platform and integration of 3rd party SDK firmware.

Developed an algorithm that uses learned models to estimate Bit Error Rate (BER) and proactively detect link failures for dynamic link recovery.

Led the design and implementation of the Transparent Inter-Process Communication (TIPC) library for ISSU, improving inter-process communication efficiency and reducing communication latency by 33%.

Took a leading role in the design and implementation of In-Service Software Upgrade (ISSU) on Ericsson's Router platform, resulting in a significant reduction of upgrade-related service interruptions by 39%.

Developed a comprehensive CLI framework and SNMP traps to enable real-time state change notifications and facilitate swift issue resolution within the ISSU process.

Pioneered the design and implementation of key features such as HTTP Redirect, PPPoE relay, session-ID management, and real-time monitoring of VLAN circuit counters on Ericsson Smart Service Router platforms, enhancing product versatility and customer satisfaction.

Collaborated closely with a cross-functional team of developers and testers, actively identifying, and resolving critical bugs in components including AAA, CLIPS, DHCP, DHCPv6, and IPv6oE, ensuring a high level of software quality and reliability.

Successfully implemented RFC6320, a Protocol for Access Node Control Mechanism in Broadband Networks, expanding the capabilities and compatibility of the Ericsson Smart Service Router platform.

Enhanced ARP, Routing Table Manager (RTM), and LANX configuration to support 12K static routes on an L2/L3 switch.

Implemented new features and resolved issues for the Home Agent.

Led Packet Injection Agent implementation for the TPACK Network Processor.

Designed and developed EsConnectB2B for ProSys V7 gaming platform.

Pioneered Flight Automation Engine framework for Flight Entertainment System.

Collaborated across teams to architect and implement the next-gen MOCVD system.

Streamlined end-to-end design and development of OpenAPI interface for MFP.

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