Ebrahim F Attarwala

DevOps Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India14 yrs experience

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Key Highlights

10 years of experience in NextGen technologies.
Expert in Edge AI and Edge Computing solutions.
Innovative leader in telecommunications and cloud architecture.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Telecommunications and Cloud Infrastructure Architect with expertise in Edge Computing and AI technologies.

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Skills

Core Skills

Edge ComputingArtificial Intelligence (ai)KubernetesNetwork VirtualizationPrivate 5gCloud NetworkingSdnNfvRobotics

Other Skills

TCP/IPTelecommunicationsC/C++OpenCVImage ProcessingEdgeAIPrivate CloudsRISC-VSoftware Architectural DesignTelco CloudCloud ComputingVirtualizationCloudSignal ProcessingSimulations

About

10 years' experience in the field of NextGen technologies, Edge AI, Edge Computing, AI accelerators, Private 5G, Sustainable Edge Architecture, Network Function Virtualization, Software Defined Networking, Product Development, Architecture Definition & Technical Solution Designing. Skills / Expertise / Area of Interest: Edge Computing, Edge AI, Accelerators (GPU / NPU / CPU), 5G, Telco Cloud, Private Wireless, Network Function Virtualization (NFV), Software Defined Networking (SDN), Virtualization, Kubernetes, Software Defined Datacenter (SD-DC), Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN), Open Source Projects (ONAP, OPNFV, LF Akraino, CORD, etc.), SR-IOV, DPDK, Sustainability, RISC-V, Embedded Systems B.Tech & M.Tech in Electrical Engineering with Specialization in Communication & Signal Processing from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay.

Experience

14 yrs

Total Experience

2 yrs 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 8 mos

Current Experience

Intel corporation

3 roles

Cloud Software Architect

Oct 2024 – Present · 1 yr 8 mos · On-site

Edge Architecture & Performance Benchmarking, System & Software Engineering (SSE)
Edge Compute Group (ECG)
= Enabling Edge AI stack and Deep Learning models on Intel devices (CPU/GPU/NPU) with OpenVINO and other AI frameworks
= Benchmarking and analyzing performance data (latency, throughput, system power etc.) to determine optimal operating point distributing various parts of the AI pipeline across the system compute available
= Driving customer engagements to enable their EdgeAI / LLM workloads on Intel Architecture (CPU/GPU/NPU)

Edge ComputingArtificial Intelligence (AI)

Cloud Software Architect

Promoted

Jul 2023 – Sep 2024 · 1 yr 2 mos · On-site

Office of CTO (OCTO)
Network & Edge Group (NEX)
= Defining system architecture for unified edge stack for heterogeneous edge deployment scenarios
= Sustainability: Power optimization solutions for Edge, 5G -- conceptualizing sustainable end-to-end 5G architecture with MEC usecases leveraging multiple open source and Intel Power & Sustainability toolkits with multiple partners

Edge ComputingKubernetes

Edge Solution Architect

Sep 2021 – Jul 2023 · 1 yr 10 mos · On-site

Customer Solutions Architecture Team
Edge Platform Division
Network & Edge Group (NEX)
= Responsible for enabling global customers on Intel SmartEdge Open Edge platform
= Solution designing for Private Wireless solutions involving 5G RAN, UPF, & core network components along with Edge applications and optimized K8s plugins for intelligent workload scheduling, data plane acceleration etc.
= Setup end-to-end private 5G lab with different RAN and 5G Core solutions on a cloud native edge platform along with MEC applications for demonstrating various use cases in different edge verticals such as Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Healthcare etc.

Network VirtualizationPrivate 5G

Nokia

Sr. Software Defined Network Architect

Apr 2020 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 4 mos

== Part of Global Network Engineering team under Network Infrastructure Services division. Responsible for designing Nuage Networks Telco Cloud, SD-DC & SDWAN solutions for service providers across the globe
== Working as a Nuage transport designer for telco cloud project for tier-1 operator designing SDN networks in production, pre-production & development environment across multiple central & edge datacenters
== Setup SDWAN lab based on Nuage VNS solution as per defined blueprint to test different use-cases, solution features & capabilities and posible failure scenarios

Network VirtualizationCloud Networking

Tata communications

3 roles

Sr. Solution Architect, NextGen SDN NFV Engineering

Promoted

Apr 2018 – Mar 2020 · 1 yr 11 mos

Part of NextGen Product R&D team specifically working towards building new service offerings and solutions in SDN, NFV, Cloud & Virtualization domain
== Consultancy services for SDWAN deployment, operations & business enablement; Working experience and good understanding of various commercial SDWAN solutions
== Consultancy services for NFV deployment, integration, configuration, management & operations
== Setup a NextGEN SDN NFV R&D lab for conducting customer POCs and understanding & implementation of various vendor based as well as open source projects (ONF, OPNFV, ONAP, OpenStack, SEBA etc.)
== Enabling Sales & Presales teams and capability building within Delivery teams
Virtual Cloud Exchange (Co-Inventor: Patent granted USPTO Patent No: US011070396B2)
== Developed a new service offering as part of Overlay Network as a Service platform leveraging SDN & NFV principles
== Built entire NFV stack with OCP qualified leaf-spine fabric orchestrated by life cycle service orchestrator
== Conceptualized end-to-end connectivity using VxLAN overlay tunnels, Linux bridges & Open vSwitch
== Onboarded multiple VNFs for additional functionalities & use cases such as SECaaS, SDWAN, WAN Optimization, Cloud Monitoring etc.
== Winner: Most Innovative Cloud Service category in Global Telecom Awards 2019
== Highly commended solution: Ground Breaking Virtualization Initiative category in Global Telecom Awards 2018
== Awarded best POC implementation award for Security Assurance in SDWAN Application Flows at MEF'2019
== Demonstrated integration of Cloud NaaS solution with Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN at Microsoft Ignite 2019

Network VirtualizationCloud Networking

Solution Architect, NextGen Tools & Automation Practice (Solutions Engineering)

Apr 2016 – Mar 2018 · 1 yr 11 mos

Part of Practice team (Product & Solutions Engineering Team) responsible for building new solutions in Next Generation tools and Automation domain
== Successfully developed and launched service offering "Lab as a Service (LaaS)" for efficient lab management & test automation for operators and telecom service providers. Includes testing of IP, Transmission, Wireless, Hybrid (legacy + NextGen SDN NFV) network
== Solution recognized as finalist in World Communication Awards 2017 for best network transformation initiative
== Responsible for conducting proof of concepts and transitioning to delivery teams, building capabilities internally within the organization and enable them for successful delivery
== Management & Automation of UCC labs for a tier-1 operator in UK
== Management & Automation of Mobile Network labs for tier-1 operator in France
== Testing Automation for VoIP and CPE testing for a tier-1 operator in Spain
== SD-WAN services validation for global VPN service provider in Europe
== Worked on development of Analytics solution specifically for telecom use cases
== Understanding of various Machine Learning algorithms for predictive analytics on sequential time series alarm data
== Setup multi node big data analytics cluster for R&D in lab environment for evaluation of analytics solution from different vendors

TCP/IPCloud Networking

Global Campus Program Engineering Trainee

Jul 2015 – Mar 2016 · 8 mos

TCP/IPTelecommunications

Auvsi foundation | robonation

Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC)

May 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Oakland University, Michigan, USA

IGVC is one of the world’s most prestigious robotics competition held every year since 1992
Represented IIT Bombay in 20th, 21st & 22nd IGVC
== Designed an autonomous ground vehicle capable of manoeuvring around an obstacle course autonomously by finding colored lanes, obstructions and navigating through GPS way-points
== Led the vision subsystem the team; developed robust image processing algorithms
== Implemented the idea of distance measurement using monocular camera for obstacles and flags detection
== Achieved 7th position among 50 teams from universities all over the world
Skills: OpenCV, Image & Video Processing Algorithms, C/C++, Robot Operating System (ROS), LabView

RoboticsC/C++

Iit bombay racing

Electric Racing Car, Formula Student Automotive Engineers (FSAE)

Jun 2011 – Jul 2012 · 1 yr 1 mo · Silverstone, UK

FSAE is an international student design competition aims at designing a formula style racing car
== Designed the circuitry for integration of sensors and isolation of high voltage drivetrain
== Devised the vehicle electrical safety system as per the standards mentioned in FSAE rule book
== First Indian electric car ever participated in any international competition

RoboticsC/C++