Working as the security architect for Cisco's next generation OS (IOS XR) and next generation platform (world's largest and fastest router) CRS-1 product. Trying to build a secure router. I am also the performance and scalability lead for CRS-1.
Within Cisco I have worked on cisco's first voice adaptors, first QOS/voice enabled cable modems, and the next generation voice/dial platform 5850.
That's 7 years ... of my life.
Before Cisco:
I graduated from UCSB, got my BS and MS in ECE with highest possible honors! My focus was computer archtecture and ASIC design, and a touch of CAD. My major interest are parallel machine archtectures and super fast microchips.
Years of Innovation and Fun.
In my freshman year, I joined UCSB computer center as a computer operator. Not much of a job other than babysite IBM 3090, Novel Networks and IP networks. I have also written a few lines of JCL code.
My sophmore year in college, I started working parttime for Rocketwell network systems (Now bought by OSICOM). There, I wrote both FDDI and FE driver for OS/2 Warp from scratch, and worked on NT/Netware drivers as well. I think I am first one in the world to write such drivers for OS/2! And guess what, I have invented FDDI to Token Ring Translation. (while others mapped FDDI to Ethernet, WHAT A WASTE!)
After, I joined IBM Almaden Research System Storage Division as a summer intern. There I worked on a special file system code named 'Daisy'. (Funny, my first girl friend was named Daisy as well) One of early version of SAN I believe. (Backended by IBM Adstore system)
Later I joined UCSB's Alexandria Digital Library project as a research assistant, writing JAVA client and server code for a new prototype map browser. It was a fun experience! I even had my own office, well, it does not have any windows! But it has a door, which I have not seen in years so far! I made a fatal mistake of looking down at Software People, otherwise, I would have caught the .com boom! I made myself famous by making a website focused on the analysis of various web mapping technologies.
Full Time Jobs:
FUJITSU: End of my ASIC career
I started working for Fujitsu Micro Electronics doing Cable Modem ASIC design. After few month, I decided working at sub-micron level was really boring, and I can't really stand doing 'integration work'. I started system engineering of a Sparc based DSP chip for digital cameras. Learned a lot about digital cameras, wrote bunch of microcode. I wrote convolution algorithem using sparc assembly that almost performed the same as the DSP chip ;-) Well, the chip was chopped, so I decided to go back to writing C-code. (I think one of my reports proofing a $5 chip performance closer to our DSP nailed the coffin ... I hope no one is bitter about it, well I was pretty young when I wrote that report...)