DANTE's Planning and Development

 

Systems Team

Anand Patil
Head of Systems

Anand graduated with a bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering from India in 1994. He started his career as a software engineer with Infosys in Bangalore. In 1996 he moved to Singapore and worked with NCS, a Singapore Telecom subsidiary, as a senior consultant. He has worked as a Systems Architect in the field of bespoke application development in a wide range of business sectors and technologies.

Anand came to the UK to pursue an MSc degree in Distributed Systems and Networks from the University of Kent at Canterbury in 2002. As a part of the Masters course he did a summer project at DANTE developing a Premium IP reservation system. After completing his thesis Anand decided to join DANTE in the Network Planning and Engineering group to continue his work with Premium IP services. Anand brings his application development experience to the networking field and is currently working with premium IP, performance monitoring and various network monitoring tools.

Anton Antonov

Anton joined DANTE in December 2000 as a Systems administrator. He is responsible for the installation, configuration and maintenance of the Windows NT and UNIX servers and clients at DANTE and in the GÉANT PoPs. This also includes technical support for the Internet Services (firewalls, email, web, ftp servers etc.) provided by DANTE.

Anton received his MSc degree in Computer Systems and Networks from Southern Ural State University in Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 1994. In 1994-1995 he worked for the LOGIS Company and took part in projects for planning and building LANs.

In 1995 he went to Bank Snezhinskiy as a Network Engineer. He was at Snezhinskiy for 5 years working with UNIX and Novell Netware servers, Cisco routers, LAN and WAN projects.

Loukik Kudarimoti

Loukik Kudarimoti graduated as a Computer Science Engineer from Visveswaraiah Technological University (JSSATE, Bangalore, India) in July, 2002. He did his Master's course in Distributed Systems and Networks at the University of Kent. As a part of his course, Loukik worked on 'Multi-Domain Performance Monitoring' at DANTE for four months.

After completing his MSc course in September 2003, Loukik became a full-time member of the Network Engineering and Planning team at DANTE. He continues to work on Performance Monitoring projects and also other monitoring tools.

Maurizio Molina

Maurizio Molina graduated in Electronic Engineering (Italian Laurea) from the Polytechnic of Turin in 1993. Since then, he has worked in the telecommunications industry, mainly in research centres, including Telecom Italia Labs (Turin, Italy) and the NEC Network Laboratories (Heidelberg, Germany). He published several papers about IP and ATM traffic modelling and network measurements. He contributed to the ITU-T ATM standardisation process, and to working groups in the IETF (on IPFIX and PSAMP). He joined DANTE's Systems group in November 2004, working on performance monitoring, security and authentication.

Mandeep Saini

Mandeep graduated in June 2003 from Kurukshetra University, India with a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. She has worked as a lecturer in the Computer Engineering Department of Haryana Engineering College, India and has also gained experience at GNIX Infosoft, India while working on Human Resource Management Tracking System project as well as at EXL Services as a Technical Executive.

Mandeep completed her Masters in Distributed Systems and Networks from the University of Kent in 2006. As a part of the degree, she undertook a four-month project for DANTE covering 'Multi-layered Network Weather Map using AJAX Technology', before joining the Systems team in November 2006. 

Waldemar Zurowski

Waldemar Zurowski graduated in July 1998 with an MSc in Computer Science from Wroclaw University of Technology. Until 2002, he worked for WCSS (the Wroclaw Centre for Networking and Supercomputing) and subsequently as a programmer and systems administrator. His general interests include network operating systems.