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Rakesh Datta

Rakesh Datta

Senior Technical Leader

Bothell, Washington, United States

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Rakesh is a visionary, innovator, and technical leader, who has worked in the computer software industry for around 14 years. After completing his bachelor's in engineering from India and Master's from the USA, he worked for big enterprises like Microsoft, CISCO, Dell, and others, where he led multiple product development in the networking space. He loves to call himself a 'full-stack network software engineer', as he has worked on all the layers of networking; be it VOIP, Secure Calls, WebRTC, Switch NOS, SDN, Programmable data plane, data center underlay network, network observability and many more. At present, he is leading an 'industry-first' network security product development at Microsoft. He is also a security researcher and was awarded by Facebook in 2013, for exposing a deep vulnerability in their stack. Rakesh is also an innovator and researcher. He collaborates closely with universities, IEEE, and open-source communities and gives back his wealth of knowledge and ideas in terms of technical contributions and papers. Rakesh is an avid painter and a people person who endorses best practices and great culture in the workspace.

Area of Expertise

  • Information & Communications Technology

Topics

  • network security
  • Networking
  • software-defined networking
  • Azure Networking
  • SDN
  • P4
  • Network Programmability
  • networking automation
  • Software Deveopment
  • Open Source Software
  • Cloud
  • Cloud & DevOps
  • Cloud Security
  • cyber security
  • Cloud Native
  • Cloud Security Architecture

Zero Trust Security In the world of hybrid workforce

Today we see a paradigm shift of technology, from people working from the office to going hybrid, as well as using their own devices over VPN.

As a speaker, I would like to enlighten the audience about how companies are adopting ZTNA and SASE solutions and are betting on big today as the biggest security technology of the next decade.

Optimizing Opex for a large Cloud Network Infra

For organizations having their on-prem cloud, the OPEX for network engineering is enormous. Even then they are not able to provide 99.99% uptime and reliability. Their oncall network engineering expense is huge.
Public cloud providers have already found ways to reduce this cost through automation, a streamlined network framework and process, and numerous enriched solutions. As a technical lead for Azure Networking, Azure Stack, as well as a service provider like ViaSat, I have gained a breadth of knowledge about the best practices SMBs or even large enterprises could adopt to cut their network engineering opex. As a speaker, I am interested in sharing these best practices and case studies with the audience.

Self-healing DC Networking

For organizations having their on-prem cloud, the OPEX for network engineering is enormous. Even then they are not able to provide 99.99% uptime and reliability. Their oncall network engineering expense is huge.
Public cloud providers have already found ways to reduce this cost through automation, a streamlined network framework and process, and numerous enriched solutions. As a technical lead for Azure Networking, Azure Stack, as well as a service provider like ViaSat, I have gained a breadth of knowledge about the best practices SMBs or even large enterprises could adopt to cut their network engineering opex. As a speaker, I am interested in sharing these best practices and case studies with the audience.

ZTNA Security in the world of Hybrid and BYOD

Today we see a paradigm shift of technology, from people working from the office to going hybrid, as well as using their own devices over VPN.

As a speaker, I would like to enlighten the audience about how companies are adopting ZTNA and are betting on big today as the biggest technology of the next decade.

LinuxFest Northwest 2024 Sessionize Event

April 2024 Bellingham, Washington, United States

Rakesh Datta

Senior Technical Leader

Bothell, Washington, United States

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