Harshang Solu

• As a Service Owner of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s Virtual Network EDGE portfolio, taking care of multiple services for designing solutions, providing support to customers and deploying services across all regions.
• Bootstrapped the entire team in India under India Development Center (IDC)
• Cross-trained employees to maximize team agility and performance.
• Daily work revolves around Multi-vendor Network Devices, Datacenter Architecture, Open-Source product usability within the stack, Cross team collaborations for new feature work, Deployment of new Regions, Customer escalations, new customer solution design engagements, On-Call Support and acting as a final point of Escalation etc
• Work cross-functionally within the organization and with external partners for new solutions/migration plans for existing & New customers.

• As a Part of the Network Engineering team need to do all daily routine activities on devices like Router (All Cisco)/Switches (All Cisco)/Firewall (All Cisco +Fortinate)/Load Balancers (LTM)
• Leading Team of 10 Network Engineers for NETENG India Team.
• Build entire Team in India with the help of my manager sitting in the USA to use the “Follow The Sun” Model
• Act as a Solution Engineer/Architect for Cisco IoT Network Integration/Migration, Enterprise customer solutions, and Telecom Operators integration.
• Work cross-functionally within the organization and with external partners for new solutions/migration plans of IoT/Connected Car customers/Internet Facing Customers
• Working in a Hybrid environment (SaaS+ISP+Managed services) with multiple millions of devices and 500+ partners across the globe via multiple Data centres

> Key Projects:

• Integration of Telecom operators across Americas/ Europe / Gulf region / Asia / Africa ( Kyivstar-Europe, MTN-Africa, Reliance UNLIMIT-Asia, Etisalat - UAE, Mobily -Saudi Arabia, INDOSAT-East ASIA)
• PoC for all P1 escalations for All VPN/Internet Facing IoT Customers/Connected
• Car customers / All Telecom Operators across Globe
• All Peering within Europe/Gulf /Asia, successfully turned up 10+ Circuits and 150+ customer IPSEC VPNs (static + dynamic)
• Migration of 700+ Customers working on the SAMI module to the ASR5K platform
• AT&T VPN solution designing and implementation on London/Amsterdam DCs for
• Nokia WING project (Biggest collaboration in Europe Region between ATT/Nokia & Cisco IoT)
• PoC for all enterprise customers Escalated Issues

• Handling IP Network of the entire Gujarat State by Leading a team of 2 Engineers.
• Alarm management, Fault management & configuration management of IP Nodes along with Implementing changes in the IP network as per Plan shared by the IP Planning team or Corporate Team
• Ensuring hygiene and availability of the entire IP network
• QoS implementation, MPLS network configuration and troubleshooting, OSPF/BGP protocols configuration in the entire network & troubleshooting during issue
• Configuration and maintenance of routers and switches of vendors such as CISCO, Alcatel Lucent (NOKIA), Ericsson etc.

• Responsible for monitoring networking systems, and networking devices, and building custom-built tools for the entire City
• Leading team of 3 Engineers & 200+ Field engineers
• Monitoring Bandwidth Utilization with the management of Leased lines from TATA communication, Vodafone & Airtel
• Configuration & Maintenance of switches, Routers as well as Fiber Lines along with Daily NOC activities like stack changing, Links monitoring & making appropriate changes
• Perform responsibilities of analyzing network topologies and identifying network performance issues

• Configuration, Monitoring, and troubleshooting of the entire network in the whole plant with around 250+ L2 & L3 Cisco Switches (2912, 2924,2950,2960,3750 series), 4 Routers and 39 Access points using TACAS Server, Cisco works, Whats up gold & various Solarwinds’ Network utilities
• Handled responsibilities of providing 24x7 networking support in a production environment
• Handled responsibilities of monitoring network traffic, installing network equipment, and maintaining data networking systems

• Managing a small network & server of 20 devices and reporting the utilization
• Team leading of 11 people
• Managing IP allocation & its updation at HO & ROs
• Look after Fiber termination from BSNL and update it in ISA Server

• Established entire network & Fiber connectivity at the site (8 Cisco switches,1 Leased line termination, LIU management)
• Solving Network, System and fibre connectivity-related problems
• Monitoring Network & fibre Operations.
• Performed troubleshooting for Juniper, Cisco, and packet analysis.

• Installed and maintained data and voice circuits through routers, switches and WAN devices.
• Provided network support and performed troubleshooting to resolve various WAN/LAN connectivity issues.
• Advanced knowledge of large-scale global enterprise network operations and security.
• Demonstrated proficiency in Linux, virtual platforms and cloud connectivity.