Atlanta, Georgia, United States
12+ years of experience helping enterprise customers secure and modernize hybrid and multi-cloud environments across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Proven success leading technical discovery, executive presentations, workshops, product demonstrations, and Proof-of-Value engagements. Deep expertise in cloud security, Kubernetes platforms, infrastructure modernization, and translating complex technical capabilities into measurable business outcomes. - Hands-on experience and industry certifications in multiple domains for design, architecture, implementation, and management of complex solutions that include - Hyperscalers and Cloud Solutions: AWS, Azure, GCP, Nutanix, VMware (SDDC portfolio), Openstack - K8s solutions: Redhat Openshift, AWS EKS, Azure AKS, GCP GKE, Rancher k8s, VMware Tanzu - SDN solutions: VMware NSX-T, Juniper Contrail, OpenContrail - Auxiliary elements: F5 / NSX-ALB Load Balancers, Firewalls, LAN / WAN networks - Effective skills to design, architect, implement and manage a Public Cloud / Multi-Cloud / Hybrid Cloud / Private cloud environments. - Experienced in evaluating and advising on AI-enabled security architectures, including the application of AI and LLM systems for threat detection, security operations, governance, and protection of enterprise data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. - Manage an end-to-end cycle for a lead and bring it to a technical success from sales perspective and anything that includes as part of it. - Proven record of building and managing excellent customer relationship and enabling multi-million sales per year for an account with zero presence to begin with. - Experienced in helping customers improve visibility, governance, and security of enterprise environments through principles such as least privilege access, data access governance, data lifecycle management, data classification, risk reduction, and protection of sensitive data across hybrid, multi-cloud, and emerging AI-enabled workloads. - Thorough knowledge and experience of RFI / RFP process, working with Business Unit / Service Line and customers during pre and post submission activities. - Extensive knowledge of SIEMs, EDR, NDR and any other security focused components.
• Provide expertse as an evangelist SME on all things Gigamon in the cloud to the customers on their journey to Deep Observability, Zero Trust and a better security posture. • Singular goal of helping the organizaton achieve revenue by collaborating with the sales team to understand customer business and technical requirements and own them to bring it to a technical success in sales cycle. • Act as a trusted advisor for customers in broader and in-depth discussions around the visibility and security posture in the cloud as it stands and how it looks in future with an understanding of their larger cloud roadmap. • Responsible for nuanced communication with technical and non-technical decision-making stakeholders, influencers and C-Suite executives. • Take the customer through how to effectively use Gigamon products in any given cloud / related infra and essentially work as their own advocate during a POC / POV and bring it to success. • Prepare and provide custom tailored presentaQons, demos and whiteboard sessions to customers that resonates with their current and future wants / needs. • Actively engage with PLM and Engineering on the customer asks, feature requests, roadmap, bugs faced, competition at play in a continuous manner. • Publish detailed Validated designs for customer consumption and contribute to the success of the marketing team by appearing as a technical expert in webinars. • Winner of multiple awards during SKO and quarterly results for exemplary contribution.
- Responsible for leading the engagement within Cloud and DevOps environment for a Telco customer with managed revenue of $3 million a year while serving in the Architecture role simultaneously. - Currently leading the hybrid cloud evangelization effort that provides uniform Platform-as-service environment in public and private space via single user pane. - Prove to be a better partner with the customer by managing relationships, consult on potential better approaches from technological as well as organizational standpoint and address escalations if any. - Led the team effort on the POC for a potential alternate platform for EDGE workloads that included qualification, creating detailed test cases, performing them and communicating results with management on regular basis. Responsible for version identification, design, pre-work, deployment, configuration and management of next-gen EDGE cloud that manages more than 150 bare metal servers in 22 locations which includes but not limited to vCenter, ESXi host setup, NSX-T and NSX-ALB. - Configure live-migration, DRS, HA, Permissions, Patches, Snapshots, Templates in the cloud environment. - Creation of virtual switches, ports and port groups and setting up L2 security policies for virtual networks. Deploy NSX-T in Destructive lab, NonProd and Prod environments that includes but not limited to creating the cluster, edge nodes, transport node profiles, segments, T0/T1 gateways and configure BGP. - Perform remediations and/or for any security vulnerabilities that have been identified by the community or the vendor. - Responsible for creating and managing end-to-end cloud build out documentation. - Responsible for firmware upgrades of host, ad-hoc troubleshooting for issues encountered at the physical level for servers, perform RMA and create MOP as and when needed.
• Hands-on engineering role for a team to bring multiple NFV services to be hosted on OpenStack environment to serve customers en masse. • Currently serve as one of the core team members that support and manage 3 distinct openstack control planes with ~150 compute hosts in 22 distinct physical locations. • Successfully created the plan for the migration of multiple application including SD-WAN from Mitaka to Queens cloud for the biggest control and compute plane. • Provide continuing assistance to the NFV team with supporting infrastructure enhancement and upgradation. • Responsible to understand workload application and help in troubleshooting by providing insights into the applications. • Performed firmware upgrades for multiple KVM and compute hosts and created a method of procedures document for it. • Responsible to provide ad-hoc troubleshooting for issues encountered at the physical level for servers including multitude of reasons. And work with vendors and/or service partners to address them. • Responsible for the configuration of AVI (VMware NSX-ALB) load-balancer for the SDWAN application for servers, server pools, pool groups, virtual services, certificates and aid in troubleshooting for the load-balancer associated issues. • Aided with the cloud orchestration management platform POC to bring it to completion. • Aided with creation and maintenance of VPN access for NFV platforms for the outside vendors and their engineers. • Responsible for creation of low-level and high-level system design diagram and maintaining it. • Single handedly managed and successfully completed hardware augmentation and compute hosts redeployment in remote data centers. • Provided thorough review along with remarks of the architectural document received from the managed platform vendor and raised questions associated with it. • Responsible to understand applications in-depth to ensure that the architecture is supported with utmost efficiency on the platform.
• Managed dual role of internal network engineering and as a PreSales engineer for a regional system integrator organization. • Design, configure, deploy and support LAN, WAN infrastructure existing and new clients. • Upgrade existing network infrastructure with high-end Cisco switches (3600 series) and ISR Routers. • Obtained hands-on experience with Cisco enterprise scale routers and switches. • Performed upgradation of Cisco IOS on multiple routers and switches. • Worked with the network team to successfully migrate from SonicWALL to Fortinet firewall. • Experience implementing IPSEC VPN for multiple client sites • Experience over upgrading to Ethernet Circuits from T1 and DS3 connections • Setup and configured wireless bridges such as Ubiquity and Siklu at multiple sites according to respective frequency bands for minimum interference. • Installed Ruckus wireless access points with a stand-along controller managing them from single management pane. • Undertook client site visits to better understand the scope or work and for future-proof planning. • Successfully performed site upgradation during live environment with maximum precautions. • Planning and configuring IP addressing scheme for the corporate site as a part of infrastructure upgrade project. • Proactively worked with ISPs to address bandwidth expansion need and for rectification of network outages and Support NOC escalations for all production issues. • Work with various carriers, vendors and internal departments as the owner of network incidents and responsibility to manage the events through to resolution while managing RMA for faulty equipment. • Delivered multiple successful technical solutions for government and commercial RFI / RFP bidding that resulted in work order for the company. • Delivered technical whitepapers and presentations as on needed basis. • Responsible for maintaining cordial relations with clients and vendors equally across the spectrum.
• In a vital role of supporting the company network team and outside business team on active engagements from technical standpoint. • Performed IOS upgrades on various catalyst series switches and maintained latest IOS versions according to company’s policy. • Responsible for day to day requirement and Racking & stacking of the various network equipment integration with connectivity • Involved in troubleshooting of DNS, DHCP and IP conflict problems. • Documented the company’s design, implementation and troubleshooting procedures. • Accurately selected technically qualified products for Government / BFSI Request for Information/Proposal (RFI/RFP). • Aid in price negotiation before bidding by creating competitor comparisons and based on previous similar experiences. • Responsible for network troubleshooting on an ad-hoc basis. • Responsible for facilitating vendor-based technical training for the pre-sales team. • Proactively engaged with a broad range of OEMs for stronger ties and broader solution offerings.