Raghunath Nagepalli

• To review customer network designs for BGP Network Overlays utilizing EVPN, VxLAN, leaf-spine architecture and make recommendations for deployment
• Work on Proof of Concepts and in-depth testing to validate design scenario
• To provide advanced post-sales engineering support for Arista's Open Networking Data Center and Campus networking deployments in addition to Network Automation and Fabric Monitoring solutions

• As a Lead Network Engineer in IaaS team, designed, deployed, operated and troubleshoot of 24/7 large scale Data Center network (16X16) and to blackhole Infrastructure Builds in Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) private cloud offering (VPCs) along with high availability, scalability and multi-tenant architecture support
• Working as a Service Owner for Data Center Network Infrastructure, responsible for 24/7 technical support (on-call), network monitoring, network uptime (SLA), troubleshoot and performance root cause analysis, maintain network diagrams, documentation, network automation (regular tasks) using Ansible
• Responsible to present critical network maintenance activities (upgrades/migrations/design changes) in Change Review Board

Projects:

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS):

• Developed detailed technical design and implementation (build-out) strategy for IaaS network infrastructure to create VPCs, AZs with common failure domain (high availability and scalability) and with separate VRFs for Cluster Management, Customer networks (Elastic IPs), IaaS Management

BGP EVPN-VxLAN in IaaS:

• Designed and implemented BGP EVPN VxLAN solution in a complex data center network infrastructure to incorporate Layer 2 VNI for VPCs and Layer 3 VNI (IRB Symmetric) for VRF routing of Cluster Management traffic (VM mobility)

Network Segmentation:

• Successfully segmented critical applications and services of DevOps team from the common IT infrastructure. Responsibilities included to gather requirements, topology reviews, traffic flow analysis, and implemented Security Rules as per the Change Management process

• Terragraph Network Support - Worked as an on-call Network support to operate the Dogfooding testbed Mesh network
• Centralized Network Management Systems - Lead the deployment of Network Engine, a centralized network monitoring solution to monitor 1000 endpoints (Cisco Nexus, Ubiquiti, Arista, Puma nodes using SNMP agents

• Designed, Operated and troubleshoot of Data Center and Enterprise Networks for multiple sites: Technical expertise: AWS cloud deployment (VPCs, Route53, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect), Nexus vPC, Etherchannel, HSRP/VRRP, MLAG, FabricPath, BGP, OSPF, VRF-lite, EVPN VxLAN, 802.1x, IPSec tunnels, Remote Access VPN

• Managed and Operated FIS Enterprise wired and wireless Network infrastructure with 24/7 Operations. Extensive troubleshoot experience of LAN/WAN/Wireless infrastructure & Network Security. Lead the entire site as a Network Manager and go-to technical resource for all network related issues

• Data Center network migration and deployment of EDS (Electronic Data Systems) Network Services to assess Network design of BGP implementation and provided recommendations

• Responsible for 24/7 Global NOC. ITIL process to handle Incident, Change and Problem Management, RCA, SLAs, troubleshoot LAN/WAN/MPLS connectivity, coordination with international Telcos