Jan 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 3 mos · Johannesburg Metropolitan Area

• INQ is a pan African cloud-based digital service provider. We have points of contacts in 12 African cities, Johannesburg, Gaborone, Lusaka, Ndola, Blantyre, Lilongwe, Mzuzu, Lagos, Abuja, Port Harcourt, Kanu and Abidjan.
• Our vision is reimagining a better future through digital solutions. As Africa’s leading Digital Service Provider providing innovative, business relevant services in Edge AI solutions, SDN/NFV Solutions, Cloud Based Solutions and Intelligent Connectivity. We are driven to assist our clients in Banks, Oil and Gas companies, FMCG, Mining, Health, Real Estate, IT Companies, Public Sector, Logistics companies in theory Digital Transformation journey. Our strength lies in the great people we have across the business and our ability to provide global international best practice methodologies customized to local customs in each of our cities of presence.
• Headquartered in Mauritius, we were founded in 2013. We are a Convergence Partner company, which is an investment management firm focused on the TMT sector in Africa.

Oct 2018 – Jan 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

Aug 2016 – Jan 2020 · 3 yrs 5 mos

• Product Owner for Criterion Networks SDCloud Platform. I was mainly responsible for building it from the inception stage to a marketable product. The overall responsibility in the company is as below in various areas
• Product Development and Management
• Conceptualizing the initial platform
• Creating the various offerings to be made available on the Platform
• Building the core- engineering and DevOps team
• Identifying and working with Contractors for building various parts of the Criterion SDCloud Platform
• Creating Framework and Process for Agile Development Model
• Product Feature Management by working closely with Customers
• Team Management and Hiring
• Creation of an Operational Framework for Support for the Platform
• Pre-Sales and Marketing
• Managed Pre-Sales for Criterion SDCloud Platform
• Customer Relationship management from Pre-Sales to Post-Sales
• Creating and Evaluating SOW
• Creating Marketing Collateral and enhancing Company Website to enhance Product Visibility
• Post-Sales customer relationship management to ensure successful utilization of the Platform
• Technology and Architecture
• Building the initial architecture document for Criterion SDCloud Platform
• Evaluating and Identifying front-end and back-end stacks
• Developed Criterion Network’s SDCloud’s Modeling tool using Puppet
• Built the CI/CD pipeline for the platform to ensure one-click integration and deployments
• Built the Real Time Monitoring Framework for the Platform using Various Open Source tool and integration to slack
• Deployed and Managed a distributed OpenStack Cluster on various Bare-metal providers, which was used by customers for hosting their SDN/NFV stacks
• Deployed the platform on AWS using various AWS services such as EC2, ELB, RDBaaS
• Provided Training to various clients of Criterion Networks in the field of DevOps, SDDC, OpenStack , SDN/NFV .

Jun 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 2 mos · Greater Bengaluru Area

• Roles and Responsibility
• Worked in building a CI/CD pipeline for Openstack and OpenContrail SDN solution
• Contributed towards OpenContrail deployment architecture
• Developed Puppet module for distributed OpenContrail
• Worked on integrating Service discovery/orchestration engines (Consul, Zookeeper) with our SDN framework
• Aided in development of package builder tool in python-django
• Rewrote OpenContrail debian packaging to support generic packaging tools
• Developed deployment pipeline architecture for CI/CD
• Worked on building monitoring framework using Nagios/Check_mk

Jul 2011 – May 2015 · 3 yrs 10 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• Roles and Responsibilities
• Delivered ADM/DC/Cloud Migration services to Cisco Customers
• Aided in design and development of Cisco’s Data Center migration service.
• Developed unique methodology and strategy for different migration services
• Developed Cisco’s Data Center Application Analytics service, which plays a key component in Cisco’s Migration methodology.
• Developed discovery strategies for Cisco's Cloud-On Boarding Solution
• Developed various scripts using Perl, Python to automate various deliverables and reduce migration execution timelines
• Developed SDN specific applications for Cisco ACI in Python using machine learning
• Participated in multiple presales with EMEAR and APJC teams in aiding Cisco service sales to win multiple X2X Migration projects

Jul 2009 – May 2011 · 1 yr 10 mos · Greater Delhi Area

• Telecommunication Technology and Management