Principal Solution Architect with 11+ years of experience in the full software development cycle.
Experienced in managing teams to assess system performance and maintain an innovative mindset in design and development.
Proficient in various platforms, languages, and embedded systems.
Able to effectively self-manage during independent projects, as well as collaborate as part of a productive team.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Certifications
Work History
Principal Solution Architect
Verizon
Chennai
07.2021 - Current
Designed, modified, and implemented technology solutions to transition Verizon Wireless RAN from a single vendor strategy to a multi-vendor OpenRAN strategy.
Worked on RAN component virtualization, which will result in a $1 billion annual savings.
Developed cutting-edge tools and applications to meet the strategic business goal of expanding 5G CBand to 100 million POPs (point of presence).
Senior Engineer Consultant
Verizon
Chennai
04.2017 - 07.2021
Carefully designed, tested and implemented E2E Event Management tool for Network Operation Centers and Field Engineers to manage planned events like Superbowl and unforeseen events like Hurricane and Storms.
Created an algorithm to provide a level of confidence by determining whether the alarm is bogus (tool related) or genuine (network impacting)
Developed a mobile application for field engineers to use while conducting site surveys in the field.
Developed and maintained dashboards that display network abnormalities in real time.
Engineer III Consultant
Verizon
Chennai
04.2015 - 03.2017
Created an analytical tool for capturing Narrow band IOT traffic to perform the deep packet inspection.
Designed an E2E distributed system to process and store nearly 300,000 packets per system using a Datastax Cassandra Cluster of 20 nodes.
Created an analytical engine using Apache Spark to analyze the stored data and computed the KPI metrics.
Built a topology out of the collected packets using the Datastax Graph engine in order to correlate and pinpoint the actual network breakdown.
Software Engineer
Verizon
Chennai
07.2011 - 03.2015
Created a system whose primary function is to detect, correlate, and report to users the root cause of network failures.
Introduced a rule-based engine to automatically suppress a large volume of alarms, find the underlying cause, and create a ticket for the NOC user to report the problem to technical teams for resolution.
Utilized cutting-edge technologies to process millions of alarms while keeping the suppression rate above 99%.
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Computer Science
Pallavan College of Engineering
Kanchipuram, Tamilnadu, India
04.2007 - 05.2011
HSC (Class 12) - Maths And Biology
St. Anne’s Mat. Hr. Sec. School
Tiruvallur, Tamilnadu, India
04.2006 - 03.2007
SSLC (Class 10) -
St. Anne’s Mat. Hr. Sec. School
Tiruvallur, Tamilnadu, India
04.2004 - 03.2005
Skills
Analytical and Critical Thinking
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Certification
Apache Cassandra 3.x Developer Associate at Datastax Academy
Timeline
Principal Solution Architect
Verizon
07.2021 - Current
Apache Cassandra 3.x Developer Associate at Datastax Academy
07-2020
Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner at Scaled Agile Inc