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Rakshit Mehra

DevOps Engineer

Sunnyvale, California, United States5 yrs 8 mos experience

Key Highlights

  • 3+ years in Software-Defined Networking solutions.
  • CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certified.
  • Active participant in security competitions.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking and Security Engineer with expertise in Software-Defined Networking.

Contact

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Skills

Core Skills

Security TrainingJavaComputer NetworkingPythonUniversity TeachingCisco Networking

Other Skills

Amazon Web Services (AWS)Risk AssessmentPassphrase DecryptionLinuxDistributed Version Control SystemPython (Programming Language)CommunicationSoftware Requirements DesignTCP/IPBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)BGPVXLANIS-ISOSPF

About

Graduated Computer Science (Networked Systems) student with a passion for developing new skills and an ambition to become an all-round professional. Confident, Goal-Oriented, Self-motivated, Proactive and High Energy individual with excellent written, cross-cultural-verbal and interpersonal communication skills. Work well as an individual contributor, as well as, in a team. I have 3+ years’ experience of designing, implementing, and testing large-scale Software-Defined Networking solutions (Cisco SDA and Cisco Viptela SD-WAN) for enterprise and service provider networks. Have worked extensively on performing network automation to efficiently manage large scale network infrastructure at Meta Platforms, Inc. Actively taking part in numerous CTF (Capture the Flag) challenges and security competitions to understand technologies such as SOAR, SIEM, OAuth, and Zero Trust. Key Skills: * Programming - C++, Python, Java * Networks - TCP/IP, UDP, IPSec, IPv6, SSL/TLS, BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, IEEE 802.1X (dot1x) * Platforms/Tools - Wireshark, Git, VIRL, AWS, GCP, Docker, Burp Suite, Kali Linux Key Achievements: * CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure #64209 * Cisco Certified DevNet Associate * Cisco Certified Specialist - Security Core * Cisco Certified CyberOps Associate

Experience

5 yrs 8 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs 9 mos
Current Experience

Meta

2 roles

Network Security Engineer

Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 9 mos · Menlo Park, California, United States · On-site

Production Network Engineer Intern

Jun 2022 – Sep 2022 · 3 mos · Fremont, California, United States

  • Member of the Network Operations team responsible for managing the large-scale Meta network infrastructure (particularly the edge services on globally distributed POPs) by building automation workflows and scalable solutions with extensive unit testing to increase the efficiency of the team and reduce the number of tickets and response time needed to resolve any incoming issues. Worked with software supply chain through version control, CI/CD to develop production code.
Computer NetworkingLinuxDistributed Version Control SystemPython (Programming Language)Python

Uc irvine donald bren school of information and computer sciences

2 roles

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2022 – Sep 2024 · 2 yrs · Irvine, California, United States · On-site

  • Instructing Graduate and undergraduate students for the courses:
  • "Programming in JAVA (I&C SCI 45J)"
  • "Cloud and Security Foundations (SWE 267P)"
Amazon Web Services (AWS)Risk AssessmentSecurity TrainingPassphrase DecryptionJava

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Sep 2021 – Jun 2022 · 9 mos · Irvine, California, United States

  • Instructing undergraduate students for the courses:
  • "Programming in JAVA (I&C SCI 45J)"
  • "Requirement Analysis and Engineering (IN4MATX 113)"
JavaCommunicationUniversity TeachingSoftware Requirements Design

Cisco

2 roles

Network Engineer

Aug 2018 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Designed and implemented the Cisco SDA solution involving BGP, VXLAN, LISP, IS-IS for 7 global enterprises.
  • Upgraded and configured 70+ network devices for a global enterprise’s live brownfield network.
  • Developed Linux knowledge by managing systems such as DNAC, ISE, and Catalyst 9k switches through CLI.
  • Mentored and guided 3 newly hired juniors to work on the SDA and DMVPN projects for clients.
  • Reduced the SDA deployment time by 20-50% by extending the power of Cisco DNAC and ISE via APIs.
  • Reduced the network migration time by 50% for an enterprise by developing automation scripts.
  • Acted as a trusted advisor for 7 Customer Experience (CX) customers through the entire project lifecycle.
Computer NetworkingTCP/IPBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)Cisco NetworkingPython (Programming Language)

College Intern

Jan 2018 – Jun 2018 · 5 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

  • Installed and configured Cisco DNAC, ISE, WLC, and Catalyst 9k Switches to build 4+ lab topologies for setting up the internal SDA lab and developed backend with Django for the web portal used to book the slots for the above SDA lab.
Computer Networking

Hacklab innovations

Intern

Dec 2016 – Jan 2017 · 1 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

  • Understood the design and working of drones and helped building codes for the same on Arduino

Education

UC Irvine

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science (Networked Systems)

Sep 2021 – Jun 2023

Vellore Institute of Technology

Bachelor of Technology - BTech — Electronics and Communications Engineering

Jul 2014 – May 2018

Nalanda Academy Sr. Sec. School,Kota,Rajasthan

High School — Science

Jan 2012 – Jan 2014

DAV international school

High School

Jan 2006 – Jan 2012

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