About Me — Sunku Ranganath
To the reader: Its nice of you to stop by to learn more about me. If you are here reading this, give me a holler through LinkedIn!
Sometimes one of the hardest thing to do is to express oneself in writing about what they are/were/would be! Its always the case that we go through multiple iterations of putting everything in text.
While keeping things brief, this goes in to 2 sections, personal side and professional life!
Personal Side:
We all are human beings before we are defined by our title or by our work. So here are few things I am:
- Believes in core set of values that help guide and define one’s self
- Traveled 16 countries and looking for the next opportunity to travel again
- Love being a Dad!
- Always strive to be good at what I do, no matter the time it takes
- There are enough complicated things in the world, our life need not be one!
Professional Life:
Brief Highlights
- Principal Product Manager & Product solution leader in Edge Infrastructure, Edge AI, Private 5G & IoT SaaS & PaaS services with open-source software
- Product managed Machine Vision AI aaS, Edge AI based Contextual Ads aaS, Multi-Cloud Network Security aaS & O-RAN based Private 5G aaS for B2B customer adoption at scale
- Expertise in pre-launch product planning, competitive positioning, defining technical product requirements, cross functional requirements, Go-To & Get-To Market solutions with inhouse SaaS & public cloud-based offerings
- Expertise in architecting, design, integration & performance analysis of Industrial IoT, Smart City based Edge services & infrastructure, O-RAN & Private 5G infrastructure, SASE, NFV & microservices
- Avid innovator with 12 patent filings, presented at multiple industry & IEEE conferences, authored multiple ETSI standards, industry publications, white papers & solution briefs
IEEE Senior Member — Awarded
“ Senior Member is the highest professional grade of IEEE for which a member may apply. It requires extensive experience, and reflects professional accomplishment and maturity. Only 10% of our more than 400,000 members have achieved this level ”
Patents — Filed
- Techniques to Support a Holistic View of Cache Class of Service for a Processor Cache
- Technologies for managing cache quality of service
- Technologies for Adaptive Platform Resource Assignment
- Traffic overload protection of virtual network functions
- Management of Fault Notifications
- Service Resiliency using a Recovery Controller
- Method and Apparatus for Workload Feedback Mechanism Facilitating a Closed Loop Architecture
- NIC Priority Queue Steering and Core Frequency Tuning based on Packet Analytics
- Low Latency Metrics Sharing Across Processor Units
Awards
- Top 15 in Patent Filings for 2022 in a group of >1000 people
- Divisional Recognition Award (DRA) — Delivered 1st Live SASE POP in a Box solution with Zscaler & Supermicro
- DRA — Smart Edge 6–11 collaboration & delivery
- Recipient of 2019 OPNFV Community Leadership Award
- DRA — IceLake server Power/Application Telemetry Upstream 3Qs ahead of Launch
- DRA — Advancing SDN/NFV with Unified Infrastructure for Cloud Customers
- DRA — For Scaling Enterprise, Telco & Cloud deployments of IA-optimized NFV
- Spontaneous Recognition Award — From VP of OTC for integration KVM4NFV into Intel Open Network Platform
- IEEE Student Leader Award — From IEEE Phoenix section
Conferences
- Geekly Worldwide Software Architecture Summit ’22 — Workshop on Edge Computing Architectural Patterns & Innovation Opportunities
- IEEE Edge Conference 2021 — “Challenges and Opportunities in Performance Benchmarking of Service Mesh for the Edge”
- IEEE NFV-SDN Conference 2021 — Partnership with IEEE INGR Edge Services Platform — “Convergence of Edge Services & Edge Infrastructure”
- IEEE 5G World Forum 2021— Partnership with IEEE INGR Edge Services Platform —Presentation on “A Survey of AI Enabled Edge Compute for Future Networks”
- Service Mesh Con 2021 — Partnership with Red Hat — “Are You Sure About Your Mesh Performance — Details Matter”
- Intel Software Professionals Conference 2021 — “It’s a mess in the Service Mesh!”
- Open Source Summit 2020 — Partnership with Google — “Collectd transition into the modern observability universe”
- Open Networking & Edge Summit 2020 — Partnership with Red Hat — “Streaming Analytics & Observability for Latency Sensitive Kubernetes Workloads”
- PromCon 2020 —“Lessons from Closing the Cloud Native Infrastructure Loops”
- OPNFV Technical Event 2020 — “Telemetry Reports”
- IEEE International Conference on Communications 2020 — “Closing the Loop with Infrastructure & Automation”
- Kubecon & Cloud Native Con 2019 Keynote Representation — Contributor to Open Virtual Central Office keynote demo
- Open Network & Edge Summit 2019 — Partnership with Nokia — Demo’ed two solutions at Linux Foundation for Networking demo booth — 1) Self-healing & rolling maintenance in OpenStack 2) Resiliency & self-healing using streaming telemetry in Kubernetes
- Open Network & Edge Summit 2019 — Partnership with Nokia — Resiliency Closed Loop: Telco Self-healing and Maintenance
- Open Infrastructure Summit 2019 — Demo on “Resource Management Daemon”
- IEEE 5G World Forum 2019 — Panel talk on “The Edge Computing Paradigm for the Industry”
- IEEE 5G World Forum 2019 — Demo on “Adaptive Frequency Control based Energy Savings & Memory Resiliency with Closed Loop”
- IEEE NetSoft 2019 — Tutorial on “Packet Processing & Service Assurance Constructs for Network Transformation”
- IEEE Traffic Measurement & Analysis 2019 — “Energy Savings & Resiliency with Closed Loop Platform Automation”
- IEEE Globecom 2019 — Tutorial on “Service Assurance”
- FOSDEM 2019 — Presentation on “Are You Insured Against Noisy Neighbor”
- Open Networking & Edge Summit 2019 — “Are You Insured Against Noisy Neighbor”
- ONES 2019 Unconference Session — organizer
- IEEE Conference on NFV-SDN 2018 — Partnership with Spirent — Demo on “Noisy Neighbor Detection”
- OpenStack Summit 2018 — Presentation on “Painless Cache Allocation in Cloud”
- Open Source Summit 2018 — Presentation on “Are You Insured Against Noisy Neighbor”
- Intel Oregon Leadership Conference 2018 — Presentation on “Navigating Across Managers & Reorgs”
- OpenStack China Days 2018 — Demo highlighting Intel RDT with OpenStack
- OPNFV Plugfest 2017 — Partnership with Spirent — “Are You Insured Against Your Noisy Neighbor”
- Intel Design Test Technology Conference 2017 — Best Of Selected paper on “NFV Reference Architectures And Platform Considerations”
- Intel Software Professionals Conference 2016 — Presentation on “Programming for NFV in Cloud And Telco Deployments”
- Intel Software Professionals Conference 2015– Presentation on “Accelerating SDN-NFV with Intel Open Network Platform”
Invited Talks
- CNCF Online Program — Presentation on “Platform observability — building the foundation for 5G and edge automation”
- Out of the Box Network Developers Meetup 2019 — Presentations & Demos to over 40+ Silicon Valley audience on
Telemetry & Service Assurance - Tungsten Fabric Meetup 2018 — Presentation on “Intel Resource Director Technology”
- OpenInfra PDX Meetup 2017–2019 — Multiple talks on Telecom Cloud Infrastructure and OpenStack
Industry Standards
- Contributor to ETSI Experiential Network Intelligence specification
- Contributor to ETSI TST 008 specification
- Contributor to IEEE P1916.1 SDN & NFV Performance WG
Industry Publications
- Featured & published articles on Fast Stack, International Society of America, Medium publications, etc.
- IEEE International Next Generation Roadmap Edge Service Platform roadmap specification for 2021 — co-author
- Intel Network Builders White Paper on “Closed Loop Automation Telemetry Aware Scheduler and Self-healing & platform resiliency” — co-author
- Intel Network Builders User Guide on “Enhanced Service Assurance — Intel Platform with OPNFV Barometer Project”
- Intel Network Builders White Paper on “Deterministic Network Functions Virtualization with Intel® Resource Director Technology”
- Over 8 Intel Network Builders White Papers on Closed Loop Platform Automation — Co-author
- Reference architecture & benchmarking guides for Intel Open Network Platform — Co-author
- User Guides — Monitoring telemetry from Intel Resource Director Technology & Run Sure Technology
- Collectd 6.0 architecture document — contributor
- Collectd Plugin documents on design, test & usage on Barometer wiki — author
- OpenStack Blueprint on leveraging Resource Director Technology — author
- Intel IT publication “Intel’s Working Hard to Enable Your Data Center Transformation” — contributor
- Open Network Platform Reference Architecture & Benchmarking Guides — author
Industry Committees Representation:
· Co-founded CNCF Service Mesh Performance Sandbox project
· OPNFV Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Member (elected role)
· OPNFV Closed Loop Automation Working Group Chair
· OPNFV Barometer project contributor
· OPNFV & CNTT meld technical committee member
· Maintainer of open source Collectd community
· Intel representative at CNCF Observability SIG
· Open Infrastructure — PDX Meetup Organizer
Collectd meetup 2019 & 2018 — co-organizer with Red Hat & Google
Open Source Projects — Maintainer
Collectd: https://github.com/collectd/collectd
CNCF Service Mesh Performance: https://smp-spec.io/
