Network Services in a Multi-Vendor Environment

The event is FREE. Food & drinks will be provided.

Open to all to attend

(Online registration is needed. If you did not register, seating is not guaranteed.)

This event is organized by:

• IEEE Computer Society (CS) of Silicon Valley

Co-sponsors:

• Computational Intelligence Society (CIS)
• Solid State Circuit Society (SSCS)
• ValleyML.ai
• IEEE Circuit & Systems Society (CAS)
• Association of Computer Machinery (ACM)

Event Speakers:

Speaker-1: Saikrishna Kotha
Director, Global Network Engineering

Speaker-2: Anand Palaniswamy
Sr. Manager, Cloud Engineering at PayPal

Location: PayPal, 2211 N 1st St. San Jose, CA 95131  View Map 

Agenda:

• 6:00 – 6:30 PM Networking & Refreshments
• 6:30 – 8:15 PM Talk
• 8:15 – 8:30 PM Q&A/Adjourn

1) Speaker-1:

Abstract:
Core Network Services provides network connectivity for PayPal site infrastructure. To address 5 9s’ site reliability goals, the demand for network to perform at its best keeps growing. PayPal transformed its data center networks by deploying white-box leaf/spine designs to help with horizontal scaling, low latency, and resilience to failures. By developing common framework layer, PayPal is able to address network automation/service API needs in multi-vendor environment. Saikrishna will discuss the design approach, lessons learned and how various vendor technologies are leveraged in this transformation process.

Bio: Saikrishna Kotha

Saikrishna has 20 years of technology leadership and management experience in networking domain spanning across optical, wireless, and wired technologies. Saikrishna’s recent focus has been implementing web scale Datacenter networking technologies. Currently he leads PayPal’s Core Network Services organization. Prior to PayPal, Saikrishna worked at LinkedIn where he was instrumental in building white-box network switches. He also worked at Dell, Xilinx, Tasman Networks (acquired by Nortel) and Ciena. Saikrishna holds 12 issued patents and 15 pending in converged storage/networking technologies, SDN and NFV domains. Saikrishna holds MBA from TAMU-commerce and Bachelor’s degree in ECE from Andhra University, India.

LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/m/profile/saikrishnakotha/

2) Speaker-2:

Abstract:
Core Network Services provides network connectivity for PayPal site infrastructure. To address 5 9s’ site reliability goals, the demand for network to perform at its best keeps growing. PayPal transformed its data center networks by deploying white-box leaf/spine designs to help with horizontal scaling, low latency, and resilience to failures. By developing common framework layer, PayPal is able to address network automation/service API needs in multi-vendor environment. Saikrishna will discuss the design approach, lessons learned and how various vendor technologies are leveraged in this transformation process.

Bio: Anand Palaniswamy

Anand has 18+ years of experience and works at PayPal for last 7 years. Currently, he is focused on building APIs to enable self-service capabilities for PayPal Core Network Services and he was leading Cloud Software Engineering team for building PayPal private cloud. Prior to PayPal, he was part of eBay for an year and worked for Tellabs where he was building frameworks and platform for Network Management System. Anand received his Master’s degree in Computer Science from University of Madras.

IEEE Santa Clara Valley Section CIS Chapter

https://ieee-region6.org/scv-cis/

Chair: Dr. Kiran Gunnam
Vice-Chair: Dr. Mehran Nekuii
Treasurer:  Ms. Priscilla Chen
Secretary: Mr. Shreyans Mulkutkar

Finance Committee Chair: Ms. Yllka Masada