Nebu V Thomas

Principal Network engineer , JNCIE-M/SP#789(Emeritus)

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

About

https://medium.com/@nebuvthomas Specialties: JNCIE-SP (Emeritus) JNCIE-SP #789 - Juniper Certified Internetwork Expert (Service Provider) JNCIP-SP #1256 - Juniper Certified Internetwork Professional (Service Provider) JNCIP-ENT -Juniper Certified Internetwork Professional (Enterprise) JNCIP-DC-Juniper Networks Certified Professional (Data Center ) JNCIA-Devops - Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate CCNP (March 2001)-- Cisco Certified Network Professional • Expert level skills in Wide Area Network design, implementation and troubleshooting. • Thorough knowledge of Internet routing protocols (BGP,OSPF,ISIS) in ISP environment and in Enterprise environment . • Escalation Engineering experience with Juniper family of products in Routing/ Switching and Datacenter/Security domains • Experience with Juniper’s Portfolio of QFX,MX,PTX,(M/T) for a wide range of use cases, including Backbone, Peering, Data Center Interconnect, Scale-out Metro Core, Telco-Cloud services and Hyperscale Data Center IP fabrics • Experience with Juniper products with wide variety of merchant silicon as well as custom silicon • Expert level knowledge of MPLS and its applications (VPLS ,L2VPN ,L3VPN, NG-MVPN, EVPN, MPLS- TP , Seamless MPLS) along with different vendor specific standards. • Datacenter , Enterprise and ISP design knowledge and aware of emerging technology trends in the industry. Experience with various Datacenter Fabric architectures , L2 Fabric (VCF , Q-FABRIC) / L3 Fabric (IP CLOS) • Managed Services experience with Juniper , Riverstone and with one of the Cisco’s Gold certified partners , on global customers ranging from ISPs, Enterprises and Content providers. • Experience with products of multiple vendors and knowledge of internal architecture of these products. • Knowledge of SDN , NFV , Segment Routing/SPRING • Knowledge of tunneling protocols with respect to Network Virtualisation Overlay solutions viz OTV,VXLAN,,MAC-VPN • Network Automation using Ansible and Jinja2 and knowledge of Git , Docker , CI/CD , DevOps practices . • Knowledge of DDoS Mitigation solution using Corero, Arbor

Experience

  • Principal Network Engineer at F5
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

    F5 Distributed Cloud

  • Sustaining Engineer Staff at Juniper Networks
    May 2006 - Oct 2020 · 14 yrs 6 mos

    Escalation Engineering for Juniper Switching / Datacenter Products

  • Member Technical Staff at Riverstone Networks ( acquired by Lucent Technologies and currently Alcatel-Lucent)
    May 2005 - Apr 2006 · 1 yr

  • Network Consultant at Datacraft
    2004 - 2005 · 1 yr

  • Sr. Network Engineer at Tata Internet Services Ltd (Acquired by VSNL and currently Tata Communications Ltd)
    Jan 2002 - Dec 2003 · 2 yrs