New York City Metropolitan Area
Senior Network Engineer with experience in enterprise, financial, data center, and cloud environments. Designs, deploys, and operates network infrastructure and drives multi-vendor technical delivery across complex environments. U.S. Green Card holder, currently based in the UAE and relocating to the U.S. in late July, with availability to start in late August.
• Design and deploy a multi-tenant BGP EVPN/VXLAN data center fabric supporting cloud services and workload isolation across compute, storage, and edge domains. • Design and implement a VPC-like networking abstraction on OpenStack, enabling tenant isolation and controlled access to cloud and external networks. • Develop VPC networking services, including VPC Peering, Custom Route Tables, Public NAT Gateway, Virtual IP, and Direct Connect. • Provide technical guidance to software engineering teams on implementation, testing, and validation of VPC networking services. • Design network infrastructure for AI/HPC compute clusters, including high-bandwidth fabrics and traffic isolation for large-scale GPU workloads. Technology stack: BGP EVPN, VXLAN, OpenStack, OpenShift, REST API, Python
• Led wireless deployments: RF design validation, contractor coordination, implementation, and production handover • Deployed enterprise Wi-Fi across 20+ manufacturing and warehouse sites (high-density, industrial environments) • Planned and executed LAN infrastructure refresh across multiple 24/7 production sites Technology stack: Ekahau, enterprise Wi-Fi, routing and switching
• Provided advanced operational support for large-scale datacenter network within a Tier-1 financial institution, serving as primary escalation point and on-site vendor representative. • Reviewed and validated architectural changes, supporting controlled production modifications within a live EVPN/VXLAN fabric. • Developed Python scripts to collect and analyze operational metrics from network devices, improving visibility into fabric performance. Technology stack: Huawei CloudEngine, Cisco Nexus, EVPN/VXLAN, BGP, OSPF, Python
• Designed and operated global network infrastructure (data centers, WAN, international locations) • Built and operated connectivity to trading platforms and exchanges (NYSE, LSE, Bloomberg, Reuters, Fidessa, Quant House), supporting production trading systems Technology stack: Networking: BGP, OSPF, MPLS, Multicast, VPN, QoS Security: Firewalls, Proxy, SSL VPN, IPsec VPN, DDoS protection Platforms: Cisco, Juniper, Riverbed, Symantec (Blue Coat), Ivanti (Pulse Secure)
• Designed and operated MPLS network • Designed and deployed DMVPN network Technology stack: routing and switching, MPLS, DMVPN