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Swarup Kumar Swain

Swarup Kumar Swain

Manager, Ribbon Communication
Bangalore

Summary

A Technical Leader with more than 15 years’ experience in the Telecommunication/Cloud industry. I have held roles spanning the Engineering value chain - in Programme Management, Development, DevOps, Product Design, Public Cloud Solution, SRE (Site Reliability Engineering), QA/Test and Engineering Project Management.


Experience covering VNF and CNF based applications on public cloud [AWS, GCP, Azure] and with SaaS offering. AWS Certified Cloud Architect – Associate.


Highly experienced and skilled Agile Engineer with a strong record of excellent teamwork and participated in managing, planning, strategizing, debugging, Requirement Analysis, Customer support, automation and System Validation.


Owner for Qualifying Ribbon’s Cloud Native SBC hosted on Public Cloud (Azure, AWS and GCP). Accountability for Product Quality, Schedule, Feature agility & NPI support. Delivered to roadmap by working with all stake holders Architects and Project Leads.


Introduced various cost saving measures as part of regular work, and couple of Hackathon’s in public cloud. Part of Public Cloud Tiger team to build PoCs/models to demonstrate feasibility of proposed concepts.


Good understanding of all phases of SDLC and STLC. Well acquainted with Agile methodology with Cross Functional and Multi-Cultural Working experience: Working with various cross functions including PLM, Marketing, Sales, Support, Development, QA & Architecture team spread across various geographies.


Looking forward for a challenging position in a company that can utilize a creative mind, with an enthusiastic thirst for knowledge and a desire to exceed the expected standards. Constantly looking out for Innovations and a consistent High Performer throughout my career

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Manager

Ribbon Communications
BENGALURU
03.2018 - Current

Projects Involved: SBC Core Public-Cloud Platform, RAF Core, IDH-SIP SRE, SweLite

Technical Management Role:

  • Helped Managing the end to end migration of On-Prem SBC product into Public Cloud SBC on AWS, GCP, MS Azure closely working with various stake holders like Dev, QA , Architecture, Product line Managers, Sales, Marketing, Professional services & Documentation
  • Currently helping the Google Voice Interop Project with Ribbon solution comprising of various Ribbon products interworking with Google Fiber/Voice

Public Cloud Platform Responsibilities

  • Involved in design and architecture of Cloud Native VNF applications like SBC on Public Cloud AWS, GCP as well as Microsoft Azure to ensure security, Performance Modelling, and service quality
  • Worked on solution test of autoscaling for Cloud Native Enterprise SBC on Azure AKS
  • Managing team of IaC(Infrastructure as Code) Development/Hybrid Engineers to automate the Orchestration and default provisioning using Terraform and Ansible
  • Development of AWS Lambda to migrate configurator API to adopt serverless AWS API Gateway
  • Leading team of 2 developing HISTM for project to save VM cost for Jenkin execution making use for SPOT instance for AWS and Azure
  • Leading team to implement Jenkin/DevOps for PC Sanity Execution, Performance, RAF Core and Teams automation execution

Sustaining and Customer support post GA

  • Helped in Project Management from conceptualization stage till GA
  • Worked on innovative solution to handle High Availability gracefully in Public Cloud environment
  • Worked on Ribbon Platform Automation as well as Jenkins’s implementation
  • Worked on Marketplace offering with BYOL, PAYG, Metering including their orchestrations

Customer Solution Test Responsibilities

  • Interoperability test environment preparation for Teams integration for SBC on AWS and Azure including High availability check
  • Amazon Chime integration with SBC on PC. AWS Global Accelerator Solution checking involving HA with HFE SBC. Route53 Solution design for SBC Core
  • GCP performance test along with GCP team to benchmark network performance for Telecom calls on GCP Dedicated Instance and Shared instance
  • Alexa Solution test Involving SBC with Cloudwatch [Custom Metrics, Anonymization etc.] and other components
  • Google Voice Interop Project with Ribbon solution [GVE]
  • Involved in multi-AZ resiliency implementation for SBC HA on GCP
  • SRE Responsibilities
  • Implementation of Config Audit involving Drift, DB data changes monitoring, Cloud env config changes using Lambda function deployed using Code Pipeline
  • Helped in playbook implementation Diagnostics as Service for Cloud Native Customers
  • Helping automating playbook for Cloud Native Customers
  • Started working on SRE DevOps

Other Responsibilities

  • Involved in Training fresh college grads and new joiners for team under current umbrella
  • Helped, involved as well as tried motivating team for Technothon
  • Some of them are finalists and one of them are winner
  • Involved in Public Cloud Cost saving initiatives to control OPex by using AWS Spot Instances for Daily Regression
  • Part of Strategic Tiger team to introduce new solution and customer POC.

Test Lead & Test System

Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd
BENGALURU
07.2006 - 03.2018

Projects Involved: M-One VMS, M-One USSD, SMSC, VMS, uIVR, Fixed IN[MPPS, MPOS etc]

Version PM Activities:

  • Version planning & version Delivery.Delivered more than 37 versions to site. Handled E2E Requirement implementation and delivery
  • Overall WBS, Quality Plan, Risk Management, Iteration plan, CMO plan. Stake holders, RO and customer communication, Regular project monitoring, stake holder discussion, CCB, CR handling, replanning
  • Team competency development, training plan, performance assessment, Managing resource plan [Members, Hardware]
  • Requirement management and estimation for project
  • Managed Oracle COE and Oracle certification exams
  • Part of Test COE and participated in preparing certification for Test COE

Engineer activities:

  • Test planning, strategy and report for projects including TAD, ATP, Test case & Bug managements, Test data management
  • Managing non-functional testing
  • Managed GDR testing for VMS product integrating it with cloud view
  • Involved in performance engineering and performance tuning for performance enhancement

Automation Contribution:

  • Writing Automation scripts and framework using GTR [TTCN3, TCL] for protocols like INTESS, SIP, SMPP, HTTP, SOAP, TCP provisioning. Involve on improving automation methodology, framework Design, Framework coding, Auditing
  • Work closely to create function-based automation as well as Keyword based automation
  • Formulated framework to support MBT. This helped generating testcase as well as test scripts automatically

MC Contribution:

  • SPOC for many sites for Site deployment, acceptance testing, launch
  • Issue debugging, Log analysis, Call trace analysis, Platform trace analysis
  • Handled site deployment, Launch, Nonfunctional testing, acceptance testing for Ethiopia Site
  • Fixing issues related PLSQL and vxml. Development of new CR & features related to PLSQL

Education

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics Telecommunication

BPUT
Odisha
06.2002 - 06.2006

Skills

Orchestration/Provisioning - Terraform, Ansibleundefined

Additional Information

Ribbon Communications (March 2018 till now)

  • AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
  • AWS Certified Solution Architect- Associate
  • Microsoft Certified Azure Fundamentals
  • Individual Excellence Award

Huawei Technologies (July 2006 - March 2018)

  • Individual Gold Award 2018
  • Best Newcomer 2007,Best Contribution Award 2011,Benchmarking Annual Award 2015
  • Best Auditor Award 2010
  • Best Paper in Test Conference 2012
  • Oracle COE paper presentation award
  • COO incentive Award 2010
  • Team HQ Gold Award 2011

Timeline

Manager

Ribbon Communications
03.2018 - Current

Test Lead & Test System

Huawei Technologies India Pvt. Ltd
07.2006 - 03.2018

Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics Telecommunication

BPUT
06.2002 - 06.2006
Swarup Kumar SwainManager, Ribbon Communication