SAMEER MOHANTY
Senior Software Engineer
Bengaluru
Summary
Software Engineer and NetDevops professional focusing on Network Programability,Automation, mentoring, and aligning network automation services to the needs of the business. I have 8 years of combined experience into Full Stack Development, Machine Learning,Routing/Switching, Wireless technologies.
Overview
8
8
years of professional experience
Work History
Network Services Analyst
Koch Industries
Bengaluru
09.2018 - 03.2021
- Development/Automation & Wireless Capability Lead
- Developed Network Automation Web portal using Django Framework to store and generate customized standard configuration templates for network devices and push them to devices
- Automated operation of ServiceNow tickets, by using ServiceNow
- APIs which includes auto updates, auto mass closures, auto management of tickets
- Worked on Meraki APIs to gather information about device details,
- Organizations and update them on the service now tickets
- Used Ansible to make standard configuration scripts for
- L3Cisco3650,Nexus), L2 switches Cisco 2900, SSID configurations for Cisco WLCs
- Upgraded IOS, Licenses on the WLCs
- Worked on advanced Wireless Scenarios like interference, mobility tunnels,Flexconnect
- Debugged packets using wireshark
- Worked on authentication on wireless clients with Cisco ISE
- Made guestpolicies, AAA configuration, troubleshooted radius logs.
Network Administrator
IPsoft
Bengaluru
06.2015 - 02.2017
- Configuring layer-2 protocols like STP, RSTP, EtherChannel, trunking 802.1q
- Setting up VLAN,VTP, in access layer switches
- Troubleshooted
- OSPF, BGP Networks
- Worked with Cisco 2500 and 3504 series Cisco WLC
Senior Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
Bengaluru
06.2023 - Current
- Setting up automation Infrastructure for Network Team from ground up since the team was managing Networks manually earlier.
- Built Web portal using tech stack like Django, Python, Javascript,
Postgresql to make features like inventory, config management,
Config diff, Alerting self-service. - Built IAAS API Platform for Network Team. APIs include F5
automation, R/S Automation, Onboarding new customer by assigning them IP, Getting data from network devices. Built Swagger page for them. - Built Postgresql Database infrastructure with Primary, standby, backup components and currently working on building data pipeline for Network using Kafka, InfluxDB.
- Built Webex Bots for automation of Network Troubleshooting, Network Configuration and integrated them with NLP. Bot features include Network Search path, Vlan creation, F5 automation, IP assignment. Integrated the bot with Jira API to auto create tickets.
- Worked with SNMP traps to alert the team rooms with API, worked with various other APIs for network management tools for alerting.
- Used ML libraries like Prophet to find out any anomalies in throughput, CPU utilization data collected from Prometheus
Network Engineer
Schweickert Netzwerktechnik GmbH
Bengaluru
03.2017 - 08.2018
- Managed SAP LABs SAAS and HCM Datacenters world wide
- Worked on configuring and troubleshooting OSPF and BGP networks
- Created Custom python scripts to troubleshoot F5 Load Balancers and Switches
- Configured CIsco ASA by creating ACLs, Access groups, NATing
- Worked on STP, Fabric Path, Intervlan routing, Etherchannel
- Worked on implementing IPSEC VPN tunnels and troubleshooting them
- Configured F5 load balancer by creating VIPs, Nating, SSL offloading
Education
B.Tech - Computer Science
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
04.2001 -
Skills
Python
Postgres
Kafka
Django,Flask
Javascript
Kubernetes
F5 Loadbalancers
TCP/IP,Routing and Switching,Wireless
Accomplishments
- Koch - Awarded Wall of Honor 2 times for bringing innovation to the team
- Cisco - Awarded multiple times to driving key solutions to transform the team.
Timeline
Senior Software Engineer
Cisco Systems
06.2023 - Current
Network Services Analyst
Koch Industries
09.2018 - 03.2021
Network Engineer
Schweickert Netzwerktechnik GmbH
03.2017 - 08.2018
Network Administrator
IPsoft
06.2015 - 02.2017
B.Tech - Computer Science
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
04.2001 -