Nandanandan Mishra
Solutions Architect
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Summary
14+ years of experience in consulting, designing, deploying, and operating highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant on-premises cloud infrastructure (CaaS and IaaS) for enterprises, telco(CSP) along with a core skillset of networking and security stacks. Alongside my technical delivery expertise, I bring 5+ years of pre-sales experience, engaging customers across the opportunity lifecycle, starting from credibility building through RFI/RFP and experience in face-to-face RFP defense meetings. My expertise spans over both software (cloud platforms and associated services, automation) and hardware platforms (servers, network devices, security appliances, and peripherals), including virtual appliances from major industry-leading and modern vendors.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Solutions Architect
Wind River
09.2022 - Current
- Expertise in K8S (Kubernetes) based on-premises cloud solutions designing, consulting that fulfill customer business objectives, and reduce complexity.
- Pre-sales engagement in UK, Europe, Latin America based Telco, Enterprise and MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) providers.
- Working on the sales cycles starting with the credibility building phase, answering to RFI, RFP, preparing technical solution documents based on Wind River's product portfolio to address the use cases.
- Responsible for designing and implementing PoCs by leveraging the product portfolio to address the customer use cases and defining the final state of a sales cycle to get maximum market share.
- Participating in the RFP defense meetings.
- Pre-validating and documenting critical third-party solution integrations (e.g Portworx Enterprise and Pure Storage with Wind River Product portfolio) to provide advantage over competitors.
- Collaborating with product managers, engineering to define and validate features requested by customers in product release cycles.
- Working with global partners to deliver joint solutions for marketing announcements.
- Engaging Pen-testing (HackerOne) and CVE-scanning (Tenable.io) to identify security vulnerabilities (CVEs) on products and working with PLM and engineering to address the security fixes.
- Preparing the Scope of Work, Requirement Specification and design documents HLD (High Level Design), Preparation of LLD (Low Level Design).
- Designing and lifecycle management of internal lab with multiple K8S clusters.
- Maintaining documentation in markdown, confluence.
- Automation using python and ansible.
Solutions Architect
Ericsson
05.2021 - 08.2022
- Working with US based global tier-1 CSP to deliver Kubernetes (CNIS, CCD) and OpenStack (CEE) based CaaS Platform to host telco workload over the SDI.
- Designed and deployed the underlay infrastructure with SDI, configuring the underlay fabrics with BGP, EVPN VXLAN underlay technologies on Pluribus and Extreme Switches for supporting the overlay application data.
- Onboarded critical telco workloads (cMME, vEPC) into cloud infrastructure.
- Worked with Tier-1 CSP in APAC region to deliver a multi-cloud environment to host both Enterprise and telco core workloads.
Network Lead / Senior Network Engineer
Tech Mahindra
09.2015 - 03.2021
- Led Enterprise network transformation across UK, Canada and APAC for a Tier-1 customer by leveraging SilverPeak SD-WAN, ZScaler, Palo-alto PA-7000 Firewalls, Cisco 9K Enterprise switches and Cisco Meraki WI-FI for all sites around the globe.
- Designed and implemented LAN transformation architectures (HLD & LLD).
- Developed automation scripts with Python & Ansible for Cisco devices.
- Implemented kubernetes in customer premises for a Tier-1 CSP in Deutschland.
- Built and managed NFVI labs for global teams and integrated multi-vendor vEPC and vRAN environments.
- Delivered PoCs for Kubernetes and network automation, enabling single-touch deployments.
- Worked on OpenStack and Contrail Networking with automation using Ansible, Jinja2, and Linux scripting.
- Did one of the initial successful installations of RedHat Openstack with Juniper Contrail SDN (Known as Contrail Cloud afterwards) in Huawei Labs in Xi’an, China.
- Worked on network service migration for a Tier-2 service provider in Norway.
IP Engineer
Nokia Networks
04.2015 - 09.2015
- Led core NOC operations for Vodafone India’s backbone networks.
- Implemented QoS, traffic engineering, and L3VPN/L2VPN services across the Carrier Ethernet Network in India.
- Conducted firmware upgrades and hardware replacements for Cisco/Juniper devices.
IP/MPLS NOC Executive
Tata Communications
03.2013 - 04.2015
- Responsible as a shift lead for delivering scheduled activities (Circuit Provisioning, migration, etc.)
- Implementing NNI (Type-1 and 2) Peerings with global ISPs like AT&T, Level3, Verizon, Telefónica.
- Provisioning IP/MPLS Circuits for time sensitive customers like Formula 1.
- Delivered L3VPN, L2VPN, MPLS, and managed services to global and domestic customers.
- Served as the single point of contact for enterprise customers, managing migrations and upgrades.
Network Engineer
JAVI Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2011 - 02.2013
- Responsible for HW installation and commissioning of Juniper, Extreme and Alcatel devices across India.
- Completed 3G service rollouts, IP/MPLS migrations, and unified DCN implementations for Vodafone & IDEA across India.
- Implemented network stack using Ericsson MPBN for GBoIP(2G) and ABisIP(3G) mobile networks.
Education
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Computer Science & Engineering
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
01.2010
Skills
On-premices cloud platforms: Kubernetes based CaaS (Vanila and WRCP/StarlingX), IaaS (OpenStack) and PaaS
Timeline
Solutions Architect
Wind River
09.2022 - Current
Solutions Architect
Ericsson
05.2021 - 08.2022
Network Lead / Senior Network Engineer
Tech Mahindra
09.2015 - 03.2021
IP Engineer
Nokia Networks
04.2015 - 09.2015
IP/MPLS NOC Executive
Tata Communications
03.2013 - 04.2015
Network Engineer
JAVI Systems India Pvt. Ltd.
01.2011 - 02.2013
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech) - Computer Science & Engineering
Biju Patnaik University of Technology
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