Senior Software Engineer @ From December 2014 to Present (11 months) Software Engineer IV @ I am the development lead for Cisco's Next Generation Data Center Access Control List (ACL) security functionality. Designed and delivered the SDN programmability API support for ACLs on Nexus 7000 through Cisco's OnePK. Planned, designed and implemented a scale enhancement for support batching of ACL configurations and events. Actively involved in revamping the ACL push model to configuration time push instead of operational time push. From September 2012 to December 2014 (2 years 4 months) San Francisco Bay AreaSoftware Engineer III @ Working on the latest Quality of Service (QoS) features being deployed in the network - both service provider and enterprise. Implemented a prototype for IETF draft on inter-domain SLA exchange (QoS SLA over BGP transport). Developed global marking of QoS fields in packets looking at the incoming fields using table-maps. Designed and implemented the Differentiated Services MIB - RFC 3289. From April 2010 to September 2012 (2 years 6 months) San Jose, CASoftware Engineer II @ Responsible for developing cutting edge EIGRP routing features for Cisco's enterprise customers. I was involved in delivering Cisco's newest protocol for advertising, discovering and selecting services across the network - Service Advertisement Framework (SAF) http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/saf/configuration/15-mt/saf-15-mt-book/saf-configuring.html My role was to develop the key features of SAF and help integrate with Unified Communications (UC) client. From June 2008 to March 2010 (1 year 10 months) Research Triangle Park, NCIntern @ Single handedly coded, integrated and tested the Service Advertisement Framework (SAF) Simulator software required for testing the SAF protocol. I was awarded the Cisco Achievement Program (CAP) award for quality and timely delivery of the simulator. I went beyond my tasks and automated testing of SAF protocol using the simulator software. From June 2007 to August 2007 (3 months)

Master of Science (M.S.), Information Networking @ Carnegie Mellon University From 2006 to 2008 BE, Computer Science @ University of Mumbai From 2002 to 2006 Ruta Vaidya is skilled in: Distributed Systems, TCP/IP, C, Cisco Technologies, Linux, Debugging, Computer Science, GNU Debugger, ClearCase, High Availability, Multithreading, EIGRP, Shell Scripting, QoS, Embedded Software, Unix, Software Design, Linux Kernel, Algorithms