Umakant Kulkarni
Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs
New Providence, New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolUmakant Kulkarni is a Research Scientist at Nokia Bell Labs with nine years of experience designing and implementing cloud-native and 5G/6G mobile network systems. He blends deep protocol-level expertise—demonstrated by substantive open-source contributions to Scapy’s GTPv2 support—with production-grade engineering of containerized telecom microservices, service mesh integrations, and automation frameworks. His background spans industry and academia, including a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue and hands-on roles at Affirmed Networks, Microsoft, and InterDigital, giving him a rare mix of research rigor and pragmatic product delivery. Known for shrinking time-to-market through automation (e.g., reducing release cycles from weeks to hours) and for translating 3GPP standards into working call flows, he thrives at the intersection of standards, systems, and software. Based in New Providence, NJ, he carries a maker’s curiosity—summed up by a “move fast and break things” attitude—into careful, standards-driven innovation.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Purdue UniversityMaster’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master’s Degree Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Northeastern UniversityBachelor’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Pune Vidhyarthi Griha's College Of Engineering And Technology
English, Marathi, Sanskrit, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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kubernetes
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Github Skills (11)
network10
python10
kubernetes9
cni6
google-kubernetes-engine6
docker6
kubectl6
docker-compose6
kubeadm6
scapy6
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
secdev/scapy
Feb 2020 - Dec 2020
Scapy: the Python-based interactive packet manipulation program & library.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 63 commits, 7 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Umakant contributed extensively to the `scapy/contrib/gtp_v2.py` file, adding new Information Elements (IEs) and fields for GTPv2 messages. The contributions included modifications to existing structures, such as the `RATType` dictionary, and the creation of new classes like `IE_UCI` and `IE_FTEID`. Further work focused on updating associated test files to validate the changes.
pythonpython2manipulationsecurity-toolsscapy
UmakantKulkarni/scripts
Jun 2021 - Feb 2025
General useful scripts
Contributions:5 releases, 7 PRs, 281 pushes in 3 years 9 months
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