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Solomon Sudhakar

Solomon Sudhakar

Bangalore

Summary

A Seasoned Network Engineer with Over 17+ Years Experience in Networking Domain with hands on Multiple Networking Technologies Such as Routing, Switching, SDN, Firewalls and VPNs, AAAs, Multi Vendor Compute technologies. Over the Period, worked on Training, Mentoring, Content Creation, Serviceability, Innovation, New Technology Adoption.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Senior Technical Leader - ACI

Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
12.2021 - Current
  • Working in Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure TAC Team for over 5 Years
  • Typically work With ACI TAC Team involving Escalations from the team on cases that need in-depth analysis, Software or Hardware Defects, Collaborating with the ACI Business unit etc
  • Work on Lab Reproduction of Customer issues, Filing Defects, Write and Publish Internal and External Documents
  • Identify Serviceability Needs and work with ACI Business Unit
  • Identify Automation Scope and track it as part of our Automation Framework
  • Build Labs that are used by the Team and maintain Automation needed for Provisioning and Cleaning up of the labs
  • Work on Reusable training needed for the ACI Team across regions.

Technical Leader and Escalation Engineer - Nexus Standalone

Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
11.2018 - 11.2021
  • Worked on Cisco Nexus Standalone Platforms such as N9k, N7k, N6k, N5K, N3k, N2k
  • Started as a Customer Support Engineer in this team and transitioned to Escalation Engineer and Technical Leader
  • Worked on Lab Reproduction of Customer issues, Filing Defects, Write and Publish Internal and External Documents
  • Training the Team and Prepare for New Product Ramp Up and Pre Field testing.

Technical Consulting Engineer (TAC)

Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
Bangalore
05.2011 - 11.2018
  • Worked as a TAC Engineer in the Enterprise and Data Center Switching team
  • Worked on Various Catalyst switches such as Catalyst 2k, 3k, 4k, 6k , Nexus 2k,3k,5k,7k,9k
  • Job Role is to handle Customer Service Requests originating on the above platforms and triage the problem and provide a resolution
  • The Resolution Typically involves Identifying Incorrect Configuration of Design, Identifying an Existing Bug which would need a Software Upgrade, Or Reproduce the Problem in Lab and File a new Software defect and work with the Business unit for Resolution.

Senior Network Engineer

[24]7.ai
Bangalore
06.2006 - 05.2011
  • Handling Design and Implementations for [24]7.ai (Design includes complete end-to-end solution)
  • This includes deciding how the topology will look, what devices will be used, what type of links will be used, what bandwidth is required and so on
  • This is decided based on the inputs and requirements of the customer by working with them directly.) Preparing and presenting Diagrams for all new implementations and making documents featuring the complete implementation
  • Owning and constantly updating all network related diagrams and documents
  • Handling audits such as PCI, SAS 70 and all internal compliance and risk management audits and closing the findings where ever applicable on a quarterly basis
  • Handling L2 and L3 network issues such as Routing, VPN, LAN, Application, Voice issues
  • Handling Bandwidth requirements and adding network devices (this includes, Forecasting B/W and Device requirements, procuring them where applicable, Optimizing B/W and handling AMC requirements)
  • Worked and deployed various Open source tools such as Cacti, Nagios, JFFNMS, Cacinda, MRTG, Untangle.

Education

Python -

Rice University
11.2012

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication -

Karunya University
Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
04.2006

Grade 12 -

SSM LA Matriculation School
Erode , Tamil Nadu
03.2002

Grade 10 -

St Mary's School
Bellampalli, Telangana
03-2000

Skills

  • Routing and Switching
  • Firewall, VPN, AAA
  • Ansible/Terraform
  • Python,HTML,Javascript, Shell, BJB
  • Virtualization (VMWare ESXI ,Microsoft SCVMM ,RedHat KVM)
  • Container (Dockers ,Podman ,Kubernetes)
  • Cloud (AWS)

Languages

  • English, Highly proficient
  • Tamil, Native speaker
  • Telugu, Highly proficient
  • Hindi, Highly proficient
  • Kannada, Working knowledge

Hobbies and Interests

  • Cycling
  • Running
  • Listening to Music
  • Watching Movies
  • Playing Keyboard and Guitar

Certification

  • CCIE (Data Center, Routing and Switching ,Security)
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect
  • Cisco Certified DevNet Professional
  • Cisco DCACI
  • Cisco SPCOR

Languages

Tamil
First Language
Telugu
Proficient (C2)
C2
English
Proficient (C2)
C2
Hindi
Upper Intermediate (B2)
B2
Kannada
Elementary (A2)
A2

Timeline

Senior Technical Leader - ACI

Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
12.2021 - Current

Technical Leader and Escalation Engineer - Nexus Standalone

Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
11.2018 - 11.2021

Technical Consulting Engineer (TAC)

Cisco Systems India Pvt Ltd
05.2011 - 11.2018

Senior Network Engineer

[24]7.ai
06.2006 - 05.2011

Python -

Rice University

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Communication -

Karunya University

Grade 12 -

SSM LA Matriculation School

Grade 10 -

St Mary's School

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