I am a Principal Network Engineer at Microsoft, working on some very cool technologies, including:
- SDN dev-op in Azure Cloud Services;
- SDN architecture design for end-to-end hyper-scale Data Centers and core at low cost;
- Cloud network overlay and underlay scaling and integration;
- NFV scaling, Elastic Cloud design, VM mobility, and disaster recovery;
- Traffic engineering and traffic optimization in large scale DC and DC interconnect;
- Intercloud security; and
- IPv6 to the VM.
Before joining Microsoft, I was with Cisco for 7 years, as a Principal Engineer, were I worked in SP routing, MPLS/GMPLS, IP/Optical integration, DC virtualization, and Carrier Ethernet. Prior to Cisco, I worked in AT&T for 8 years, as a lead architect for IP/MPLS backbone and BGP IPv4/v6 VPN networks design and deployment. Before AT&T, I held several research positions at Telstra Research Labs., BNR, and Racal Datacom, where I worked on Artificial Intelligence/Neural Networks/Machine Learning for combinatorial optimization, pattern recognition, speech and character recognition, and image compression.
I have been an active contributor in IETF since 2000. I have authored/co-authored 18 IETF RFCs. You can see a list of my RFC and active IETF drafts here.
I have over 100 technical publications, including IEEE Journal articles, conference papers, and industrial speeches. I have been speaking and serving as committee member at most major SDN/MPLS conference, including the SDN/MPLS World Congress in Paris for the last 17 years. Here are my patents.
I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from Flinders University in Australia.
I code in C#, Java, Python, PHP/HTML/XML, and Javascript.
In my free time, of which I have none, I teach yoga, love to sail and scuba dive when there is chance, and love to travel. I have recently moved to Seattle from New Jersey with my husband, and we love it here.
This is my linkedin profile.
