Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
$M-Tech(Digital Communications), B-Tech(Electronics & Communications) and Master of Arts in Acharya-Yoga. $CCIE Wireless(W), CCNP, ACMP, CWDP,CWNA,Hamina,Claude,GenAI $14+ Year of experience in IT infrastructure including,Routing,Switching ,IPAM,Wireless Technology (Multi vendors Cisco,Aruba,Aerohive,Extreme Networks, JuniperMist,Arista and Mojo), firewall, Automation- Netlite ,Pythons, Cloud - AWS and Microsoft Azure and GenAI. $Mentor and expert in Project Estimation, effort estimation, BOM Creation, new project transition & Cutover. $Wireless solution Architect/Technical lead/Transition lead handled multiple global projects. $Good expertise in new project RFP, transition from one vendor to another within time line with primary and secondary support & handover to operation team with all required documentation. $Network Design professional of Catalyst Center/ DNAC, Catalyst 9800 and WiFi 6/7 aps c9176,9176D1 and 9163, Aruba Central ,Aruba Airwave and aps 634,635 and 665. $Solution Architect on Cisco,Aruba, Extreme Networks, Aero hive,Arista WLCs and APs. $Subject matter expert on the Ekahau , Hamina and AirMagnet wireless survey tool for the Predictive,Passive and active WiFi survey. $Cisco Prime,ISE, Aruba CPPM, Aruba Activate Portal, Captive Portal, wireless managers in Arista and Arista cloud vision wifi etc. $SDWAN planning ,deployment and Migration with FortiGate Firewalls, Policy creation and Tshoot. $Experience on ESXI hosts, VMWare ,Comvoult SaaS backup,vCenter 7.x and 8.x. Deployment/Migrations. $Expert in Monitoring tools like Check MK, Omni center,SevOne,Confluence,MyXylatics and Solarwind for infrastructure alerts. $High impact and low impact Vulnerability check and remediation on the Networks devices. $Firewall configuration in High availability cluster with S2S VPN,Client VPN configuration on Cisco,Fortigate and Checkpoint firewalls. $OpenRoaming/Hotspot 2.0 design and implementation in Aruba ,Cisco and Extreme networks. $Configuration and troubleshooting of routing protocols such as EIGRP,OSPF,IS-IS ,BGP. $Managing & maintaining backup of Routers /switches also maintaining IP Subnetting for LAN/WAN with VLANs. $Software update/Firmware update of WLCs ,Access points ,routers,switches,firewalls and other Networking devices. $INFOBLOX -IP assignments with Host record ,CNAME, A Record ,PTR record creation. $Project Planning & Deployment of P2P , PMP, Mesh Wireless solutions with UBR ,SIKLU, Radwin, Cisco ,Aruba and Microwaves. $Expert in Aruba MM-MD setup, Aruba IAP setup, RAP-NG Architecture and IAP-VPN architecture.
Engineering : *Participate in various design solutions as per the Bussiness needs and within the specified project budget. *Designed and deployed WiFi-5/6/7 and OpenRoaming(Hotspots 2.0) *Designed and deployed Catalyst Center and Aruba Central *SDWAN deployment with FortiGate *Catalyst 9800 WLCs deployment. *Designed and deployment of network vendor to vendor migration(Cisco to Aruba, Aruba to Cisco , Extreme networks to Cisco and Aruba). *Design and Deployment of Extreme Network hosting platform from old ESXi host to new ESXi. * Prepare Low level design, High level design and Network Documentation. *Evaluate new network technologies and it’s POCs Operations: * Incident, Problem,service request and change management. *Advance support for P1 ,P2 and P3 tickets. *Peer review for High critical changes *RCA and problem management review for all critical incidents. *Monthly incident trend analysis and long-term remediation. *Network Capacity review with remediation plan. *Identify maximum effort consuming activities and automate them through Scripts. *Creation of run-books and SOPs as per the configurations standards. *Firmware upgrade,License and Guest Web auth certificate renewals. Projects : *Effort estimate creation based on project requirements. *BOM (Cisco,FortiGate,Aruba) creation and validation. *New client transition,documentation and co-ordination till complete delivery. *New project Handover , secondary support and primary support. *Migration and site refresh with Cisco , Aruba ,Extreme networks and FortiGate. *Platform migration from Hardware appliance to VMware appliance. *Site relocation, Migration from Cisco to Aruba, Aruba to cisco, extreme to JuniperMist and Extreme Networks to Cisco and vice-Versa. *Predictive and active-passive wireless site survey with Ekahau and Hamina tool. *DC Core devices refresh where Aruba core Switch migrate with Cisco Core and All L3 move from core switch to Firewall and, Enable IPv6 across the Guest and OpenRoaming WLAN
Engineering -Designed and deployed Wi-Fi 5/6/7, OpenRoaming (Hotspot 2.0), Cisco Catalyst Center, Aruba Central, Catalyst 9800 WLCs, and FortiGate SD-WAN solutions. -Led multi-vendor network migrations (Cisco, Aruba, Extreme Networks, Juniper Mist) and platform migrations from hardware to VMware. -Prepared HLDs, LLDs, implementation plans, and network documentation. -Evaluated emerging network technologies and conducted Proof of Concepts (PoCs). Operations -Managed Incident, Problem, Change, and Service Request activities, providing advanced support for P1–P3 incidents. -Performed peer reviews, RCAs, incident trend analysis, capacity planning, and operational automation through scripting. -Developed SOPs, maintained configuration standards, and managed firmware upgrades, licensing, and certificate renewals. Projects -Created project effort estimates and validated BOMs for Cisco, Aruba, and Fortinet solutions. -Managed client transitions, project handovers, site refreshes, and enterprise network migrations. -Conducted wireless site surveys using Ekahau and Hamina. -Delivered data center core refresh, Layer 3 migration to firewalls, and IPv6 deployment for Guest and OpenRoaming WLANs.
1) Design and architect enterprise Wi-Fi 6/6E/7 and Private 5G solutions, including RAN, Core, Transport, and Edge components, delivering secure, scalable, and high-performance wireless connectivity. 2) Perform RF planning, predictive site surveys, capacity planning, and wireless optimization, while developing High-Level Designs (HLDs), Low-Level Designs (LLDs), and architecture standards for enterprise deployments. 3)Design secure wireless architectures using WPA3, IEEE 802.1X, Network Access Control (NAC), and Zero Trust principles, integrating Wi-Fi and Private 5G with enterprise LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, and cloud environments. 4)Lead technology assessments, solution evaluations, vendor selection, and Proof of Concepts (PoCs), providing architectural leadership for large-scale enterprise, campus, industrial, and mission-critical wireless deployments. 5)Support Industry 4.0, Smart Factory, and IoT initiatives by delivering resilient, secure, and highly available network designs that meet performance, scalability, and business requirements.