Parikshit Agarwal

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Email- Parikshit.mcp@gmail.com
Senior Level Assignments in Cloud, NFV design and architect with a reputed organization

Hands-on expertise in heading overall project activities right from the conceptualization stage to the execution and closeout

PROFILE SUMMARY
 Solution Architect Professional with experience of 10 Plus years in cloud management, SD-WAN solution, NFV design,
Planning, Implementation, Vendor Management, Team building, Pre-sales support, Customer relationship, Delivery
Management and overall Project handling.
 Successfully built network and data delivery POP’s to deliver network services & edge service chaining in
different countries (India, Dubai, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, Sri Lanka, some part of Europe & USA)
 Performing technical presentation to customers, gathering project requirement, making POC, running POC at client
place on virtualization, cloud, NFV and network functions.
 Built connection with senior level tech managers to get insights of company and their coming up projects on cloud
and NFV projects for new opportunities.
 Skilled in cloud and NFV, VNI, network technology / product development to facilitate and enable growth &
business agility.
 Given key sessions on SD-WAN, NFV, network functions and cloud technology to startups and in tech events.
 Experience in optimize use of hardware and virtualized network function to get good ROI and cost saving.
 Possess excellent negotiation, organizational, relationship management, problem solving and interpersonal skills
with cross-cultural adaptation & creative abilities

Professional Certificate

 Advance Diploma in Application Software from NIIT Ltd.

 RedHat Certified RedHat Open Stack Platfrom 10
 Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA)
 CISCO CERTIFIED NETWORK ASSOCIATE (CCNA)
 CISCO Cloud Certified
 VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
 Open Stack Certified Architect
 ITIL Certified in 2013
Education

 M-Tech (Masters in Computer Science) from Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay- India: 2007

Work Experience
Alten Calsoft Labs LTD. as Lead Cloud Architect (Sep.2016) Client- Ericsson, Verizon & COLT Technologies
 Support for End to End SD-WAN solution, Cloud projects design/Integration as a role of Solution Architect
 Support for hybrid cloud project planning, network planning, and do the optimal high level infa/network design, detail level design
 Setting up MANO components (Director, Orchestrator, Gateway)
• New Solution Implementation in GSM(3G)/LTE IP networks.
 Providing new solutions to Customer and support till complete implementation.
 Worked on troubleshooting on ike/Ip-sec, BGP, L2/L3 switches.
 Worked on muli vendor VNF Onboarding, preparing service templates, service automation, scripting, with json & yml files.
 Provide network planning and design with LTE enabled node (Lanner/Adventech/Dell Vep/Cisco)dimensioning, traffic path and load
calculation according to customer requirement or RFP
• Provide design and dimensioning of SDWAN datapath solution for core UCPE edge traffic.
 Worked on designing, impletation of private cloud based on Vmware and openstack solutions.
 Open stack deployment with Docker, Heat Stack, templates management and troubleshooting
 Design and integrate Multi-Cloud Management Platform based on public and private cloud platform.

• migration of the organisation’s SaaS applications to a cloud IAAS provider like AWS, MS-Azure, Private Datacenters.
 Designing & building Complex Hybrid Cloud Environments with AWS, Microsoft Azure, VMware platform & Private datacenters.
 Designed PODs on Open stack based on client requirement.
 Hands on Full stack deployment includes fuel, controller, neutron with VLAN/VXLAN, cinder with multiple network involved.
 Worked with CEE product (Ericsson cloud platform for telecom providers), EVR, distributed traffic cards.
 Hands on Open stack implementation, Integration and automation.
 Network Consulting for IP Network which includes Juniper , Cisco, smartedge and Extreme Products.
 Hands on working on Fuel, Ansable, scripting, python and post installation tasks.
 Responsible for virtual network function configuration on TOR, Gateway and NFV nodes side based on VLAN, VXLAN/GRE, tunnels.
 Hand on working on network functions like tunnels, VLAN/VXLAN/GRE, BG Gateway, L3 to L7 routing, TOR management.
 Client engagement based on project requirement, information gathering, technical POC, Projections and vendor management.
 Governance, Risk Management and Compliance enabled solutons.
 Worked with project managers and team leads for project deliveries, client meetings and change requests.
 Worked on Mirantis open stack, RHOS version 10 & 11, CEE (Ericsson cloud platform) flavors.
CtrlS Datacenter LTD. As Sr. Solution Architect (Jan 2011 to July 2016)
 Worked on Huawei FusionSphere , juniper, cisco, extreme product systems to build cloud setup for Telecom Company.
 Hands on experience in setting up end-to-end network function from meet me room to end point servers.
 Worked on network mugs, N+N network designed for telecom provider.

 Worked on Nokia cloud band network director and Application manager to automate NFV geo function and controlling network POPs on
multiple locations.
 Cloud product designed for a leading telecom provider with 25,000 instances, GSLB, SLB, site recovery, DRM, Cisco UCS, Fortigate and F9 load balancer.
 Led team of 15 people working on R&D based on NFV, DCVF and network function automation.
 Involved in Amazon public cloud POD design in Mumbai, India includes network connections, resource monitory, project delivery.
 Presales support for sales team and new lead generation.
 Multiple Cloud project design and delivery based on Open stack, Cloud Stack, VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V, SCVMM.

 Worked on making contacts with different hardware, software vendors and getting involved in new project research.
 Worked with multiple Telco provides for NFV, VNI and physical network devices, new product launches.
ZNet Technology Pvt. Ltd. as a Solution Architect (From Sep 2009 to Dec 2011)
 Led team of 05 people working on different solution.
 Solution based on AWS public cloud provided.
 Worked with Vodafone (Leading telecom company) to design their voice support function with 2000 seats, pri lines, cosmo-com servers used.
 Configured 2G/3G network bandwidth distribution hubs and access points, signal boosters, made network ring for easy plugin.
 Done Setup of internal process and sales support function.
 Got involved in new product design, vendor involvement and hardware selection.
 Built cloud product for company to sell as public cloud service.
 Experienced in smooth handover, project documents.
 Worked on different cloud products like Mirantis Open stack, RHOS, Cloud Stack, VMware stack, MS SCVMM
HCL infinity Limited as a Network Engineer (May 2007 to Aug 2009)
 I was responsible for day to day network request like switch, router level operations
 Network Monitoring, devices backup and reports.
 Device firmware upgrades, device management and controlling.
 Worked with Telecom Company to setup datacenter bandwidth lines, mugs and client meet me switches.
 Worked on different network devices like Cisco, Fortinet, brocade, SonicWALL, contrail, NFV ports and tools.

Project Details
 SDWAN Solution setup- For leading service provider
Worked as Architect on SDWAN Solution planning, configuration and demo for leading service provider in
APAC. The solution includes designing solution, selecting hardware, MANO components configuration, multiple
VNF onboarding, setting up multiple WAN touchpoints, filtered LAN output, service chaining and ZTP (Zero
Touch Provisioning), Ike/Ip-sec tunnels, BGP config.
Solution- Used Adva Ensemble product, UCPe tool, MANO components, DELL VEP 4600, LTE WIFI Routers, L2/L3
Switches and Cisco CSR Gateway.

 Ctrl4C (BCP ready cloud) Hybrid Cloud Offering- For cloud company to provide services to BFSI sector
Worked as lead on Cloud with 4 copy, includes HA with geo location DR enabled system, automated backup, used
multiple hyper visor (Xen/KVM, VMware & MS Hyper-V) as well as integrated with SOC & Monitoring.
Automated provisioning, load balancer, Auto scaling, automated metering.
Configuration: - Configured v-Datacenter cluster including FT, DRS & HA. Storage on 10g connection over iscsi,
v-motion for vDisk & VM, different port groups for network isolation, 02 different hosts for VM isolation, for VM
traffic/management & storage traffic network on dual physical link with failover settings. HA provided up to
gateway layer of setup.
Skill/Tool Used: - Open Stack modules/tools, High Availability, Disaster Recovery tool, geo location storage, L2
& L3 networks, data transfer control, Xen/KVM, Esxi, Hyper-V Hyper Visor, automation, metering tools, API
calls for auto scaling, Security operations, App level monitoring

 Community Cloud – For leading telecom company

Requirement: - It was based on open stack platform where client requirement were to handle 25000 of VM’s with
different type of guest OS, different network with layer of security & some VM isolation from other VM’s plus high
and medium performance of storage. NFV function with geo location, control and build function.
Solution: - Used Open stack Mitaka Mirantis flavor with 75 nodes (72 computes and 03 management nodes), for
storage we used SDS, Hardware of Dell R710 series, MD 3200 & 1200 disk box & 510 series for management. For
network used Cicso UCS stack to provide SDN and geo location network function. 40G switch with LAG. Used
Nokia cloud band network director and application manager suite.
Configuration: - Used fuel to configure complete stack with 04 different network segment with 40G
connection over LAN on physical layer for management and VXLAN for virtual network function over nodes.
Used storage in two grids for high and archive performance, multiple zones for VM isolation.
Skill/Tool Used: - Hardware planning, Open Stack Mirantis, Cisco, Switching, Router, tunneling, MPLS, VPN,
Firewall, Linux & Windows OS, Storage SDS, Pacemaker, Fuel, Puppet and scripting. Nokia network
director with geo location.

 Public Cloud (IAAS, SAAS)- Product designed for datacenter as service

Requirement: - Infra as a service for company, shared environment for different type of client, application. Thin
provisioning, multiple hypervisor platform setup, and network on N+N with max SLA uptime by 99.95%. There
were some other requirements like automatic provisioning, backup, self-service portal, Hadoop cluster, etc., 10k
VM requirement.
Solution: - Used Open Stack with VMware, Hyper-V & KVM hypervisor, (nova), Keystone, rabbit MQ, Cinder with
Ceph distributed storage (RBD & Object), Neutron (gre, DHCP, L3 routing), Glance on Ceph, Heat for auto scaling
& high availability, UI horizon, Ceilometer. Pacemaker. 220 servers of DELL 620 & 420 Used, Dell 4000 switch for
10g requirement, Dlink L2 3200 (L2) switch for 1g.
Configuration: - Configured nova in HA with dual 10g for storage communication & QP of 1g network
(Management, VM traffic). Different cluster for KVM, VMware & Hyper-V with glance to handle different format of
images. Firewall 300c fort iGATE in HA & pacemaker for component auto failover to maintain HA, template &
profile creation. We configured network function as router, uplink, different network provided public/Internal,
etc.
Skill/Tool Used: - Open Stack (Multi pule Hypervisor Nova, Keystone, Rabbit MQ, Ceph storage
cluster for multiple use, Cinder, Pacemaker, Heat, ceilometer, glance, API calls, PHP/Curl call, etc.

IT Skills

 Open Stack modules installation/configuration worked on base stack, Mirantis, RHOS, Canonical Ubuntu stack, Ericsson CEE.
 Scripts automation on Python, Perl, ansible, Puppet, Docker, Fuel.
  Project designed on NFV, SDN, NFVDC geo locations based on open flow, Cisco UCS, Nokia Band and Vmware NSX.
 Worked on SCVMM, ops manager, and site recovery system with MS azure.
 Network devices hands on Palo Alto, Cisco, Forigate, sonicwall, juniper open & SX.
 Load Balancer technology for SLB, GSLB (F5, Zen, Citrix NetScaler, Array, A10).
 Server Hardware Management for Dell, HP, IBM, SuperMicro.
 Microsoft System center Suite (Hyper-V, Cluster, VMM, DPM, ORS, Monitoring, Storage)
 VMware Vsphere Suite Management (ESX, ESXI, VCenter Server, DRS, HA, FT, Cluster, vMotion, vShield, SRM)
 Storage System on EMC, Dell, HP.
 IT Operations and team building
 Datacenter Operations, Client delivery management, Vendor Management.

Other Details

Date of Birth- 24th April 1984

Languages Known- English and Hindi
Nationality- Indian