Hemanth Raj

Product Engineer

Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India14 yrs 8 mos experience
Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in designing complex network architectures.
  • Proven track record in low latency trading solutions.
  • Strong leadership in cross-functional project execution.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking and Cloud Computing expert with a focus on Data Center and Telecommunications.

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Skills

Core Skills

Network ArchitectureData CenterNetwork DesignNetwork Infrastructure

Other Skills

802.1qAAAASR9KBRASBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)CCIE#28593CCIPCCNPCFMCisco Catalyst SwitchesCisco NexusCisco Routing & SwitchingCisco TechnologiesData Center NetworkingEIGRP

About

Hemanth Raj has the following characterisitcs • Strong presentation skills at both technical and executive level. • Present complex solutions/ideas across all levels of participants and work in a team environment as both a leader and an individual contributor. • Interact with multiple cross-functional teams to achieve a common goal and effectively lead cross-functional teams. • Build and maintain trust and relationships with customers and Cisco team members. • Executing complex Cisco managed and technical projects. • Strategic conversation in a wide range of technologies and how they map to business outcomes. • Build and maintain long-term technology/solutions roadmaps. • Develop strategic Architectures and Solutions based on customer business needs. • Identify customer business and technology needs through relationship building with key customer stakeholders. • Create and execute on our top accounts’ strategic initiatives. • Provide business development support – positioning services; assisting in scoping and determining level of effort for proposals, and statements of work. • Work with engineers to ensure delivery quality and scalability across all theater. • Problem solving, negotiating, business writing, customer relationship management, effective presentation, and active listening. • Understand industry strategies, business challenges, and desired business outcomes and develop a technology, solutions-oriented strategy at a vertical or segment level that can deliver those outcomes. • Identify gaps and drive innovative solutions to close gaps in the portfolio and accounts covered. • Customer consulting experience in network design, collaboration, data center, automation, and security solutions. Hemanth has rich experience in testing, migrating,deploying,designing various Customer Networks .He spent a good portion of time busting Routing and Switching , Data Centre issues and providing high availability solutions catering to different spheres of the ISP network services such as Metro Ethernet, MPBN and Enterprise Network.Extremely hands-on. Currently working on Googles Data center network architecture for Google Cloud VMware Engine and solving all network problems Worked on Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway (DCSG) for Telecom Infra Project . Built Low Latency Trading Network Setup for AlphaGrep Securities. Background beyond networking includes ISP, hosting services with solid understanding of challenges facing various web,mail and DNS services.

Experience

Google

Network Engineer

Nov 2020Present · 5 yrs 4 mos · Chennai

  • Building Data center network for Google Cloud VMware Engine. Triaging and fixing all Network Infra and Network Service issues.
Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)Network ArchitectureData Center

Nokia

Nuage SDWAN engineer

Aug 2020Nov 2020 · 3 mos

  • Deploying and troubleshooting Nuage SDWAN solution

Vmware

NSBU R&D Engineer

Nov 2019Aug 2020 · 9 mos

  • NSXT Product Escalations and System Testing
  • NSXT routing And LS solutions testing

Ip infusion

Whitebox Switching Lead

May 2019Oct 2019 · 5 mos · Greater Chennai Area

  • Working on Disaggregated Cell Site Gateway ( DCSG ) for TIP ( Telecom Infra Project ) . Testing and developing solutions towards Converged Whitebox solutions for IPRAN Network .
  • Testing Backhaul and providing solutions for Front Haul and Mid Haul connectivity.

Alphagrep securities

Network Architect

Sep 2018Apr 2019 · 7 mos

  • Building low latency solutions for High Frequency Trading (HFT).
  • Design the Low Latency Exchange Trading Network Setup and Exchange Colocation setup in 15 Leading Exchanges.

Ip infusion

Whitebox Switching Lead

Mar 2018Aug 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Working as a Design Engineer for solution design and solution deployment responsible for NOS delivery and customer deployments.
  • Major being
  • Planning and designing IXP networks for VXLAN deployments.
  • Migration of legacy L2 network to VXLAN for an IXP use case.
  • Solution design for VXLAN.
  • Solution integration of NOS with different Hardware vendors.
  • Resident Engineer role (currently working with LINX - London Internet Exchange )
  • Work on various MPLS VPN deployments and solution design for Service Provider market

Microsoft

DataCentre Network Engineering

Mar 2014Aug 2017 · 3 yrs 5 mos · washington d.c. metro area / hyderabad

  • Work cross-stack designing and deploying large-scale WAN/DC network infrastructure for Microsoft Office 365 cloud. Troubleshoot complex WAN/LAN issues, automate network operations, develop architecture proposals , test new solutions and products. Analyze and optimize existing infrastructure and participate in new deployments.
  • Building Analytics Engine for SDN based infrastructure
  • Worked on SDN/NFV deployment and design for Microsoft O365 cloud.

Ericsson

Global Product Deployment Engineer

Oct 2011Mar 2014 · 2 yrs 5 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Implementation and Support of new and existing Customer Networks
  • Develop Technical Proposals and Implementation Plans
  • Provide training to Network & Support Engineers
  • Troubleshooting Protocols OSPF, ISIS, BGP, MPLS VPN , L2 Atom, VPLS and VPWS.
  • Implementing and troubleshooting MCLAG, VRRP and Dual homing for all the customer network and providing sub second redundancy for high availability purposes.
  • Implementing BRAS services with PPPOE and DHCP/CLIPS Access Services.

Cisco

Network Consulting Engineer, Advanced Services

Oct 2010Oct 2011 · 1 yr · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Implementing, Troubleshooting and Testing IP Routing Protocols, RSTP, LAG, BGP, Layer 2 QOS and MPLS VPN.
  • Worked on Troubleshooting End to End Customer Network.
  • Worked in Customer Migration from 7600 to ASR 9k.
  • Solved complex escalation issues .

Education

Anna University

B.E — Electronics and Communication

Jan 2005Jan 2009

Velammal Matriculation higher Secondary School

HSC — Science

Jan 2003Jan 2005

St Mary's Matric. Higher Secondary School

10 — Science

Jan 1995Jan 2002

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