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Ravikant Gupta

Ravikant Gupta

STP/vDSR Change Management & Automation Lead
Pune

Summary

Dynamic and results-driven Telecom Professional with 17 Years experience in STP/DRA/RAN network architecture, optimization, and project management. Seeking to leverage expertise in cloud-native technologies by transitioning to a Kubernetes and OpenShift role. Passionate about enhancing deployment efficiencies and streamlining operations in modern DevOps environments.

Overview

19
19
years of professional experience
6
6
Certifications

Work History

STP/DSR SME LEAD

Vodafone Idea
PUNE
12.2023 - Current
  • Mentored junior team members, contributing to their professional growth and development.
  • Enhanced team performance by providing expert guidance on critical projects and strategic initiatives.
  • Established best practices for knowledge sharing, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
  • Developed effective training materials for diverse audiences, resulting in improved skillsets and increased job satisfaction.
  • Ensure STP availability 100% by routine health checkup, change management,Alarm monitoring, Backup, Spares up keeping etc. corrective measures to fix problems. Support for any Version upgrade patch installation at Oracle STP/DSR Node
  • Oracle STP Performance reports analysis: - Analysis of the reports & corrective measures for improving QoS. Coming out with plans for further improvement to keep utilization within thresholds.
  • Traffic Migration and analysis: - Timely traffic migrations as per plan, Analysis of the traffic flowing throw STP/DSR via Protocol analyzer/ wire shark to correct issues, to detect cause of any surge.
  • Heading PAN India STP/DSR Network (20 STPs/32 DSR), This include overall shift operations, planning/ Configuration/Change management/Performance report generation analysis, Vendor coordination, Testing etc. Leading a team of 8 of STP Shift engineers.
  • Specialties: Mobile signaling (C7 and Sigtran), traces(wireshark and Protocol analyzer) and performance/traffic report analysis.
  • Streamlined processes to increase efficiency, enabling teams to complete tasks ahead of schedule.
  • Managed complex projects from inception through completion, delivering high-quality results within tight deadlines.

SNOC Technical Lead

Vodafone Idea Ltd
PUNE
12.2019 - 12.2023
  • Led the deployment and optimization of RAN networks, resulting in 100% Network rollout and 99.99% network uptime.
  • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to improve network performance metrics by 50%.
  • Design and build highly available and scalable infrastructure Based on K8s & VMs.
  • Involved in development of test environment on Docker containers and configuring the Docker containers using Kubernetes for Parallel wireless Project and Mavenir Openshift 5G project deployment.
  • Support development teams from infrastructure side in Refactoring of monolithic applications to a Microservices based architectures.
  • Utilized Kubernetes for the runtime environment of the CI/CD system to build, test deploy.
  • Provide work environment automation solutions on basis of POC and LLD/HLD.
  • Conduct systems design, feasibility and cost studies and recommend cost-effective cloud solutions.
  • Automated Deployment of Cloud Computing with Containerized Docker integration on Linux system.
  • Manage deployment to various environment – QA, PROD, DEV.
  • Task Automation using Terraform, Ansible and shell Scripting and DevOps tools
  • Cloud Resources provisioning using automation tools – Terraform.
  • Manage and Configure Nodes, Cloud Integrations, Manage Plugins, Configure Systems and Manage Matrix Authentication Permissions.
  • Troubleshooting of Performance issues, OS Issues, Application issues etc.
  • Projects: (4G/5G Network Rollout)

Manager

Idea Cellular Ltd
Jaipur
05.2007 - 11.2019

Ericsson/ZTE RAN Configuration Management,Fault Management,Performanace Management

  • Network Rollout, Network Optimization, Software up-gradation & correction package loading
  • Creating signalling link and size alteration for BSC/MSC and other configuration
  • Performed the capacity enhancement and Site migration, keeping in view the requirements and ensure the Network design
  • Disaster of APG43L, APG43, APG40, Cloning of APG43L, APG43, APG40
  • Integration of BSC-21233C, BSC-21255, BSC-21260
  • BTS Configuration, Call Testing & Data testing, STATS definition as per demand by customer
  • Expertise in APG-40 C/2, APG-40 C/4, APG43-GEP1, APG43-GEP2., APG43L, HW/SW RAID management
  • Managed and motivated employees to be productive and engaged in work.

Education

B.E - ECE

Rajasthan University
Jaipur, India
04.2001 -

Skills

Certification

CKA Certification Achieved in 2023-10.

DECLARATION

I hereby declare that the given above information are true to the best of my knowledge and belief and can be supported with reliable documents when needed. 

                                                                                                                                                                     

Place: Pune (Ravikant Gupta)

Timeline

STP/DSR SME LEAD

Vodafone Idea
12.2023 - Current

SNOC Technical Lead

Vodafone Idea Ltd
12.2019 - 12.2023

Manager

Idea Cellular Ltd
05.2007 - 11.2019

B.E - ECE

Rajasthan University
04.2001 -
Ravikant GuptaSTP/vDSR Change Management & Automation Lead