Jan 2025 – Present · 1 yr 5 mos · North America · Remote

• The Linux Foundation - Open Source Summit 2025 - North America
• The Linux Foundation - Open Source Summit 2025 - India
• The Linux Foundation - Open Source Summit 2025 - Europe

Jun 2024 – Present · 2 yrs · North America · Remote

• ***Releasing Soon***

Mar 2024 – Jun 2024 · 3 mos · United States · Remote

• Technical Risk Consulting
• Cyber Security Consulting
• Internal Auditing
• Microsoft Azure
• Cloud Security
• Azure Infrastructure

Jul 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Remote

• >>Community Leader- Academia Liaison for Canada Community of Practice - DevOps & DataOps
• >>Hosting Meetups Groups in Ottawa, Toronto & Edmonton

Apr 2022 – Jun 2024 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · Hybrid

• DevSecOps, DevOps, Cyber Transformation, Cloud Strategy, AWS/Azure Cloud Security, Cyber Security Controls Implementation, Payment Card Industry - Data Security Standards, NIST, Generative AI/ChatGPT Strategy and Implementation.
• Awards:
• Applause Award: December 2022
• Bravo Award: October 2023
• Applause Award: December 2023
• Applause Award: January 2024
• Senior Rank 5.

Feb 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 4 mos · Greater Toronto Area, Canada · Remote

• Ambassador for CD Foundation for USA and Canada Region.

Mar 2021 – Jan 2022 · 10 mos · Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex · Hybrid

• At EY, we’re dedicated to helping organizations solve their toughest challenges and realize their greatest ambitions - from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies – and the work we do with them is as varied as they are.
• Senior for US West Cyber Security Practices
• DevSecOps, CloudSecOps and InfoSec
• Technology Consulting
• Senior Rank 3

Oct 2020 – Feb 2021 · 4 mos

• Working in different Horizons ranging from DevOps-Cloud-QA-Project Management
• Responsible for all phases : Planning, Assessment, Development, Implementation, Execution, Delivery and Production Support

Sep 2019 – Sep 2020 · 1 yr

• Responsible for Project Management, Technical Leadership, Development, Execution and Delivery.
• Based in Texas, Cyber Group is one of the fastest growing software service companies in the region with 225+ strong team members in Dallas, Texas and New Delhi, India. The company offers solutions that are tailored to the needs of individual clients utilizing expertise in customer experience & CRM, application development & integration, production support & quality assurance, and data analytics & AI. Cyber Group’s mission is to grow talent and develop life-long relationships with its customers. The company has been featured on INC 5000 and The Best Places To Work in recent years.

May 2020 – Present · 6 yrs 1 mo · Texas, United States

• Recognized as a DevOps Institute Ambassador and will take a leadership role in empowering DevOps Institute community members with Skills, Knowledge, Ideas & Learning (SKIL)
• https://devopsinstitute.com/become-a-community-member/devops-institute-ambassador/
• https://devopsinstitute.com/

Apr 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 1 mo

• Advising, Guiding, Mentoring Students to pursue their dream of Higher Education, Master's Abroad in different countries globally.

Jan 2020 – May 2020 · 4 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area · Hybrid

• Assisted Dr.Scott Kingsley for Course 'Network Automation and Programmability for Graduate Distance Learning Class
• Advisor and responsible for various other graduate-level courses under Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and for Network Engineering with Dr.Rajan, Dr.Scott Kingesly, Prof John Widhalm, and Prof John Rhymer
• Process of developing new and revised courses such as DevOps, NetDevOps, Advanced DevOps
• Networking and establishing relationships with various Industries Representatives for Projects and recruitment

Apr 2019 – Mar 2025 · 5 yrs 11 mos · Dallas, Texas, United States

• Has been Guest Speaker for various occasions both for Computer Science School and Management School.
• Topics Included ' DevOps for Network Engineers' 'Scope in Cyber Security' and 'Technical research Papers' for Undergraduate, Graduate and PhD candidates

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos · California

• Speaker at ‘The Open Source Summit’ held in San Diego in Aug’19 and gave a workshop on 'Cloud, Containers and Virtualization'
• Speaker at ‘The Open Networking Summit’ held in San Jose in Apr’19 and spoke on 'DevOps and its Best Practices'

Feb 2019 – Aug 2019 · 6 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• Responsible for mission-critical support for all major applications and infrastructure. Supporting entire IT 24*7 with a wide range of improvements from automated build, deployment and release processes
• Managing CI/CD Pipelines, source code, configuration management, build platforms, staging, testing and releases phases. Patching and validation of various Prod Servers and various other supporting apps
• Troubleshooting all 4 types of environments (Dev/QA/UAT/Prod) and related deployment issues both manual and automated activities and documenting for deployments, backups, and any rollbacks

Jan 2018 – Mar 2020 · 2 yrs 2 mos · United States

• Representing SMU-Lyle School of Engineering - Network Engineering Program
• ITERA 2020 -
• Hosted by Ball State University
• Muncie, Indiana (DevOps culture of Collaboration and Research Journal Papers)
• Won Innovative course Award 'DevOps for Networking'
• ITERA 2018 -
• Hosted by Murray State University
• Lexington, Kentucky (Software Defined Networking in Teleco Industry)
• Won Best Paper Award ' SDN in Telco Industry'
• The Information and Telecommunications Education and Research Association (ITERA) is a professional organization of close to 20 universities and colleges that have programs in information and telecommunications education and research. ITERA advances telecommunications science through the creation of a forum for telecommunications and networking professionals, educators, and researchers.

Jan 2018 – Jun 2018 · 5 mos · Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Sep 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 3 mos

• Developed and tutored a new course called 'DevOps for Networking' in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications' Dept under Dr.Scott Kingsley and John Widhalm
• Graduate Teaching Assistant for Course ‘EETS-7304 Network Protocols’ under Prof.John Rhymer and ‘EETS-8395 DevOps for Networking’ under Prof.John Widhalm at Lyle School of Engineering
• Roles includes Delivering labs, demonstrating laboratory techniques, grading lab assignments, conducting seminars, proctoring for examinations, conducting office hours for the students, assisting the course instructor and preparing lecture modules and work as a technical content Developer
• Assisting the students in labs on Wireshark and GNS3, delivering labs on DevOps and use of the various tools such as Vagrant, Docker, Kubernetes and Creating a CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins and Ansible as playbook.
• Also Tutoring for Undergraduate Students for Subjects such as Math,Chemistry and Physics at Altshuler Learning Enhancement Center (A-LEC) at SMU.
• Encouraging critical thinking, develop communication and leadership skills, guiding students to achieve a better understanding of the subjects and oversaw an increase in performance by 75%.
• Reviewing notes and readings to check and confirm student’s understanding before a test or quiz.

Aug 2017 – Dec 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos

• International Graduate Student Ambassador for Lyle School of Engineering at SMU
• Roles Include
• Interact with Prospective Graduate Engineering students through e-mails, video conferences such as Zoom, webinars and live chat sessions such as Skype and get their queries cleared.
• Develop ideas, build marketing strategies, create content for social media to promote interaction between current and prospective students.
• Attend various events, seminars and webinars and encourage involvement on campus for current students
• Monitor various social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram account of Lyle School of Engineering for publicity and online marketing purposes
• Create databases of prospective, newly admitted, current students and Alumni, work on platforms such as Slate and Slack by bringing all campus events under them
• Represent university and work in International Admission Recruiting Office

Jun 2017 – Aug 2017 · 2 mos

• Worked for the Sports Medicine department for SMU-Mustang Football Team

Sep 2017 – Present · 8 yrs 9 mos · United States, Canada, India · Remote

• 'Paper Reviewer' for IEEE UEMCON Conference 2024
• 'Secretary' for IEEE Young Professionals, Region 7, Canada
• 'Vice Chair' for IEEE Young Professionals London, Ontario
• 'Ambassador Lead' for IEEE Rising Stars Conference 2023
• 'Ambassador' for IEEE Rising Star Conference 2021-2022
• Secretary and Director of Communications for IEEE Dallas Young Professionals 2018-2021
• Won Best Chapter Award - Dallas for two years in row 2018 and 2019.
• Board Member for IEEE-Dallas Section 2020-2021
• Member for IEEE - Computer Technical Society
• IEEE University Relation Officer for SMU and UTD - 2017-2020
• Responsible for membership, website development, content creation and social outreach
• Held various tech and social events in the DFW area
• IEEE Speaker at various universities and conferences -2017 - Current
• Have Six IEEE International Technical Journal Paper Publications -2015 Onwards

Jan 2016 – Sep 2016 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Worked on 4G-LTE Wireline Network Project in IP/MPLS Department for IP(Core and Access)
• Worked on Reliance Jio's software such as OrderCare and Granite
• Understood various design in Jio's architecture such as eNodeB, CSS, Aggregation routers and various terminologies related to IP and MPLS.
• Generated Work order and Incident tickets, if there is failure between any links in the network using the Order Care Software
• Raised the issue and forwarded to different teams to all major cities where the links are connected
• Prepared documentations, presentations for various meetings and present to different vendors
• Mapping the information of links failures and new redundant links from SpreadSheet into the Granite Software
• Supported the Transport team by helping them in troubleshooting techniques
• Coming up with new strategies for the team if there is any link failure in any multiple locations where AG1.AG2 and AG3 routers are connected

Jan 2016 – Sep 2016 · 8 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Technical Content Developer for various undergraduate subjects particularly for Electronics and Communication, Computer Engineering
• Marketing Head for QUES10 - Mobile Application for KT280 Solutions

Nov 2015 – Dec 2016 · 1 yr 1 mo · Mumbai Area, India

• Tutored Various subjects for High Schools and Undergraduate Students such as Math, Physics, Chemistry

Jul 2015 – Jun 2016 · 11 mos · Mumbai Area, India

• Electrical Engineer for field support autonomous security systems. Roles included for testing, troubleshooting and fixing the entire security and network system. Performed maintenance and inspections on various machines and sites
• Responsibilities also included to prepare invoices for various vendors, attend project meetings with clients such as 'National and Texas Instruments'
• Some of the other duties were:
• Gather requirements from the client and convert it into requirements document.
• Create Information Architectures, workflows and timelines and get approval from client before handing it off to design & development teams.
• Crete Project frames, plans and strategy for different projects and work collaboratively with different teams