Kavuri Harish
Bengaluru
Summary
Quick learner, evolutionarily adaptive to a new environment. IT professional with over 8 years of experience in network operations and Datacom L2 and L3 protocol testing. Involved in network transformation from a legacy network to Viptela SD-WAN. Worked on Arista and Cisco switches as part of Juniper's competitive analysis team.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Associate Consultant
HCL Technologies
Bengaluru
04.2025 - Current
- Supporting enterprise network transformation projects, including SD-WAN rollout. Coordinating with clients for new network implementations and migrations.
- Documenting configurations and maintaining network diagrams. Prepared complete network implementation plans for migrating sites to Cisco Viptela.
- Coordinating with clients for new network implementations and migrations.
- Documenting configurations and maintaining network diagrams.
- Prepared complete network implementation plans for migrating sites to Cisco Viptela.
- Designed process improvement strategies to enhance operational efficiency for clients.
Senior MS Network Engineer
NTT India GDC Private Limited
Bengaluru
09.2021 - 03.2024
- Troubleshoot and resolve LAN, WAN, and SDWAN connectivity issues.
- Working on the incidents, service requests, problem tasks, and change requests to provide support as per the SLAs.
- Troubleshoot the issues related to site latency, link down, end user issues, and end device issues as per the SLA.
- Hands-on experience in the implementation and troubleshooting of BGP, OSPF, OMP, IPv4, and Ethernet protocols.
- Installation and troubleshooting of the Cisco SDWAN devices.
Network Implementation Engineer
Accenture Ind Pvt Ltd
Bengaluru
01.2019 - 08.2021
- Installation and handling of Managed Services, Router, Switches, and SDWAN solutions.
- Installing and handling Verizon Management Network equipment. Performed validation and testing of vendor-provided circuits and core network trunks before turn-up.
- Received a client request for a new installation, migration, or upgrade, and designed a solution to meet that request in a timely fashion.
- Supported field technicians to troubleshoot networking appliances. Join discussion and planning calls with customers, project management, and regarding new or upcoming sites, as well as BAU.
- Build and maintain a Visio documentation database for network topology.
Network Consultant - Juniper Networks.
Adecco Ind Pvt Ltd.
Bengaluru
10.2017 - 12.2018
- The CI (Competitive Intelligence) team is responsible for conducting competitive analysis for various products and contributes by writing and posting collaterals that can be consumed by the field (SE, Account, PLM, etc.). To position Juniper products against the competition and help win deals.
- Tear down the analysis of competitors' devices and write TARs (Technical Analysis Reports) that will be published in SAVO.
- Collaborate with SysTest and SNP teams for any competitive device testing to achieve an apple-to-apple comparison of the tested data.
- Contribute to rapid responses against new announcements from competitors.
- I did an extensive teardown analysis on the Arista 7160 and the Arista 7504, including features like VXLAN, telemetry, Cloud Vision, FIB, etc. Worked on scale and performance testing for FIB, IGP, MAC, ARP, BGP, multicast, VXLAN, route maps, ACL, etc.
L1 - Network Engineer - Vodafone Ind Pvt Ltd.
Acliv Technologies Pvt Ltd.,
Bengaluru
12.2016 - 10.2017
- Involved in carrying out IOS upgrades and password recovery on Cisco 2700, 2800, ASR 1001x, ASR 1002x routers, and Catalyst 2900, 3850, 4500x, and 6807xl switches.
- Responsibilities for solving all network-related problems in routing and switching.
- Configure and troubleshoot various Cisco routers and switches.
- Documented network configurations and changes for future reference.
Education
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
GITAM University
Vishakhapatnam07-2015
Skills
- SD-WAN, Cisco Meraki
- Routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP
- Switching technologies: STP, RSTP, HSRP, VRRP, Ether channels
- Network configuration
- Client coordination
- Network troubleshooting
Certification
- CCNA - Cisco Certified Network Associate (CSCO13014591)
- CCNP - Cisco Certified Network Professional in switching
- CCNP 350-401 - Implementing Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies
Timeline
Associate Consultant
HCL Technologies
04.2025 - Current
Senior MS Network Engineer
NTT India GDC Private Limited
09.2021 - 03.2024
Network Implementation Engineer
Accenture Ind Pvt Ltd
01.2019 - 08.2021
Network Consultant - Juniper Networks.
Adecco Ind Pvt Ltd.
10.2017 - 12.2018
L1 - Network Engineer - Vodafone Ind Pvt Ltd.
Acliv Technologies Pvt Ltd.,
12.2016 - 10.2017
Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences
GITAM University
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