ANIKET KHEDEKAR
Mumbai
Summary
Highly-motivated employee with desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
End User Analyst
NEC Software Solutions (India)
Mumbai
06.2022 - Current
- Configured and maintained Radware Alteon load balancers to ensure high availability and optimized traffic distribution for critical applications.
- Implemented server health checks and load-balancing algorithms (e.g., round robin, least connections) to enhance application performance and resilience.
- Performed firmware upgrades, backup configurations, and SSL certificate management on Radware devices to ensure secure and reliable operations.
- Troubleshot and resolved load balancing and connectivity issues, collaborating with application and network teams to reduce downtime and latency.
- Monitored traffic patterns and generated performance reports using Radware management tools to support capacity planning and SLA adherence.
- IPSec VPN: Configured and managed site-to-site and remote access IPSec VPNs, ensuring secure communication between networks.
- Palo Alto Architecture: Deep understanding of Palo Alto’s single-pass architecture and flow logic for efficient traffic processing.
- Zones: Designed and implemented security zones to enforce granular access control and segment network traffic effectively.
- SSL Inspection: Configured SSL decryption to inspect encrypted traffic and prevent threats hidden within SSL/TLS sessions.
- Active-Passive HA: Configured and maintained Active-Passive High Availability (HA) for firewall redundancy and failover readiness.
- Performed firmware upgrades and policy backups for Palo Alto Firewalls, ensuring minimal downtime and maintaining network security compliance.
Education
Post Graduation and Diploma - IT project management
Welingkar Institute of Management
Bachelor of Management Studies -
Mumbai University
12th - Commerce
Mumbai University
Secondary School - 10th
St. Xaviers High School
Skills
- Load Balancer
- Radware,F5
- Firewall
- Paloalto,Juniper,Fortigate - Monitoring
- Zabbix
- Cloud Tools
- Azure - Operating Systems
- Linux
- Windows
Accomplishments
- Rising Star: 02/01/24
Awarded for demonstrating exceptional potential and achieving significantly in early career. - Thanks a Ton Award: 10/01/23
Received appreciation for service given to internal stakeholders.
Certification
- Microsoft Cloud Fundamentals : LinkedIn Learning
Languages
Marathi
First Language
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Proficient (C2)
C2
Timeline
End User Analyst
NEC Software Solutions (India)
06.2022 - Current
Post Graduation and Diploma - IT project management
Welingkar Institute of Management
Bachelor of Management Studies -
Mumbai University
12th - Commerce
Mumbai University
Secondary School - 10th
St. Xaviers High School