Oct 2017 – Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Mumbai

• Head of Cloud DevOps, SRE & Automation CoE at Reliance Jio (World's 2nd Largest Telecom and Digital Platform Company). I led a team responsible for building and managing Hybrid Cloud Platforms, running Open Source platforms like OpenStack, Kubernetes, Open Contrail, Calico, CEPH and AWS Public Cloud.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Passionately built and led a team of 100+ DevOps, SRE, NetOps and Automation Engineers, TPMs.
• Expansion of Cloud footprints (100k+ Cores & 100PB Storage) to offer IaaS/PaaS Services VM Containers, to 500+ different application tenants.
• Building and Managing biggest (across community worldwide) Private Cloud Platform on OpenStack, Kubernetes, CEPH(SDS), Open Contrail/ Calico (SDN), EMC ECS/Scale IO/Isilon, NetApp
• Building and Running Kubernetes and OpenStack and OpenStack on Kubernetes to offer IaaS (VMs and Containers) to offer K8s Containers on Cloud and on Bare Metals.
• Built highly scalable and flexible traffic routing architecture using GSLB/SLB/GTM/LTM and DNS to offer Hybrid Clouds and Private Clouds across multi-region Data Centers.
• Built highly robust, scalable and flexible Cisco Spine/Leaf switching fabric, Routing and Firewall Infrastructure across multiple Data Centers.
• Led Micro Services Apps to run on Hybrid Clouds (AWS and Private Clouds) environments.
• Migrated workload from AWS to Private Clouds, including tens of PB (Peta Byte) data with zero impact and saved cost (> US$100M)
• End-to-end Management(24x7) of Servers, Network and Storage infrastructure of 5000+ Servers, 100 PB+ Storage and 1000+ Network Equipment’s across multiple Data Centers.
• Heading 24x7 Cloud DevOps Service Desk to Serve 500+ Cloud Tenants across Hybrid Clouds.
• Driven by DevOps/SRE practices and tools like CI/CD, IaaC, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Consul, Ansible, Salt Stack, Prometheus, EFK etc.

Jan 2015 – Aug 2017 · 2 yrs 7 mos

• Key Responsibilities:
• Led Global Team of 50+ professionals (Sr. Network Engineers, Automation Software Developers, Cloud Engineers and Technical PMs) to deliver Network Services (Load Balancing, DNS, IPAM, and Routing & Switching etc.) for the entire organisation.
• Building Network Automation to Orchestrate Network-as-a-Service with Zero Touch Provisioning by exposing APIs to Clouds (Open Stack/VMWare) and Applications.
• Building Cloud Network, Storage and its Automation to deliver on-demand IaaS to the consumers.
• Automation for Legacy and SDN - Software Define Network (Cisco ACI for Datacenter and Viptela for SD-WAN)
• Responsible for the Design, Strategy, Build and Operations of DDI (DNS/DHCP/IPAM) Products for entire organisation.
• Leadership oversight for Global Network Operation Center (GNOC) as part of follow-the-sun model support.
• Key Accomplishments:
• Built the strong global team of 50+ professionals as part of insourcing of Global Network from in January, 2015 and seamlessly In-sourced the Network Service Delivery and Operations.
• Built Network Automation & Orchestration Environment to deliver Network-as-a-Service with speed (on demand), High Volume of Service Requests, Zero error to improve Network Availability and at 50% less cost.
• Network Automation Build and Adoption reached from zero to 90% in two years.
• Setup Orchestration of Cloud (Open Stack/Open shift) Infrastructure including Compute, Network and Storage
• Built Cloud Network, Storage and its Automation to deliver on-demand IaaS to the consumers.
• Enabled GDHA (Geographically Dispersed High Availability) deployment model for Applications to offer high availability and business continuity/DR plan
• Led Agile Development team and built Network Automation Engines & Orchestration based upon Django Framework, PgSQL DB, Python Scripting, using DevOps and CI/CD tools.
• Built resiliency into Enterprise DDI Product (Nokia QIP) and improved it availability and made efficiency.

Mar 2009 – Dec 2014 · 5 yrs 9 mos

• Key Responsibility Area :
• Led Data Center/Campus Network Designing and Builds across APAC region
• Driving Network Re-Engineering, Upgrade and Refresh
• Partner with Global Teams to Lead and Deliver Global initiatives across the region
• Leading HP/AT&T Network Operations team in resolving critical Operational issues and getting Root Cause Analysis.
• Key Projects/Initiatives delivered :
• Singapore Data Center Consolidation & New Campus Builds
• o The project scope was to built two new campuses Maple Tree Business City (MBC) and Marina Bay Financial Centers (MBFC) and a Data center in Singapore and migrate Technology infrastructure from existing Datacenters and migrate business partners from old offices without any impact.
• o I led the Network Design, implementation and migration scope of this multi-year/multimillion$ project end-to-end.
• o The scope of the Design includes 2xData Centers, 3xCampus Network, WAN/MAN and Migration Strategy
• Led Technology Infrastructure Design, Built – China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia
• India NCR Campus, Cyber City Building-8- Campus LAN Re- Architecture/Upgrade/Refresh:
• NCR Campus and Cyber Building-8 Campuses are built as 24x7 World Service/GCA Centers in Year 2013, and were re-architected and refreshed without any impact to business. Building-5, Cyber City – New Campus Setup/Expansion in Gurgaon
• Led the network designing and implementation for Building-5 in Cyber City, Gurgaon to setup a campus of approx 3500 workstations.
• HP/AT&T Vendor Governance (Network Availability, Project Delivery & Change Management)
• o Reviewed network change scripts for all the critical changes in the region to ensure no impact due to changes to achieve high availability.
• o Provided consultancy and guidance to HP/AT&T teams to resolve operational issues, to do root cause analysis and eliminate any single point of failure.

Feb 2005 – Mar 2009 · 4 yrs 1 mo

• o Worked as one of the Network Architect for Designing Global MPLS Solution and Led migration of legacy WAN to Global MPLS across APAC.
• o Designed and built Technology Infrastructure for new Campuses, NCR Campus for Approx 4000+ Workstations and Cyber City Building-8 for 1500+ workstations.
• o Led Technology strategy to migrate business partners from multiple offices in Delhi/Gurgaon to the newly built NCR Campus.
• o The new solution was explored and deployed to carry TDM voice calls over backbone and decommissioned legacy voice of ATM based upon Cisco IGX.
• o Project Managed Infrastructure Consolidation project for India domestic business.
• o Led the network separation for American Express Bank (AEB) as part of its sale to Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), which was very critical and time-bound initiative.
• o Received ‘AET Excellence Award’ for excellent contribution in Year 2009.

Sep 2001 – Feb 2005 · 3 yrs 5 mos · Gurgaon, India

• Worked with GE Capital International Services for approx 4 years from Year 2001 ~2005 as Manager – Telecom (Network Services).
• The key responsibilities were to manage the delivery of Network Design and implementation for new sites, business expansion projects and technology initiatives likes’ bandwidth consolidation, office expansion, new solution deployment etc. Also, supported network operations for critical issues.

Jul 1997 – Aug 2001 · 4 yrs 1 mo · Gurgaon, India

• Worked with System Integrator companies - IT&T, Progression InfoTech and Converge Labs as Network Engineer. The primary responsibilities were to take care installation of data network equipment’s and handling IT related issues for the clients of these system integrators.