AKHIL GUPTA

Mail: Link2akhil@gmail.com

Mo. : +91-9599306980

Career Summary

o A Dynamic Professional with 11+ years of experience in Integration/Design & Delivery of IT-Telecom

Solutions (IT infra/Cloud/Roaming/Security), Pre/Post Sales technical consultancy.

o Delivered projects to customers located globally with satisfaction rate and technical proficiency for

various clients located globally.

o Strong Experience in Openstack, vCloud/VSphere, KVM, Linux/Windows, HA/clusters, IAAS/PAAS,

SDN/NFV, shell scripting, basic of Puppet & Dockers,

o Hands on Experience & strong Knowledge base on LTE/IMS, Diameter, SIP, IP Network, SMS

(Content filtering, Policy control/DPI), SS7, Sigtran, Call-flow (GSM/LTE), VAS Products, Roaming

(LTE/GSM).

o A quick learner, effective communicator, strong technical & analytical skills, troubleshooting /

problem solving experience, capable of working in fast & volatile environment, Knowledge of ITIL

service framework.

Technical Skills

• Cloud/SDN

Openstack, KVM/Esxi, Orchestration, Neutron, vCloud Suite, Containers/ Dockers,

SDN/NFV, Open Daylight/OpenFlow, Openvswitch, Docker.

• Operating Systems: RedHat, Centos, Ubuntu, Solaris, UNIX, Windows Servers.

• High Availability:

• Network Services:

• Database:

• Tools/Simulator: Wireshark, Putty, Seagull, Sipp, sed/awk, iperf/tcpreplay.

• Protocols:

• Hardware:

Certifications

 RedHat Certified System Administrator in RedHat Openstack

 VMware VCP 5.5 DCV

 Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) Certif. No 804007415127060

 Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Professional Experience

Nokia

Solution Architect

Job Summary

• Solution Designing, Implementation, Capacity Planning for Compute/storage, Requirement gathering

for Private/Telco Openstack/VMware cloud solution.

Jan 2015 onwards

DRBD/HA (MySQL/NFS), RHCS, LVS, Microsoft NLB, MSCS, Veritas Cluster.

LDAP/NIS, RADIUS, DNS, DHCP, NFS, FTP, Samba, Apache-Tomcat,

IIS, Squid, MRTG, Nagios, Open-NMS, SSH, NTP

MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB MS-SQL,

Diameter, SIP, RTP, SS7, Sigtran, MAP, SMPP, SCTP, GTP, SMTP, AAA, ,

TCP/IP, UDP, HTTP, IPsec, QoS, ICAP, XCAP, SNMP.

HP C7000/ DL/BL servers, Sun Sparc, EMC/HP Storage, Thin-Client, iLO/OA

Dialogic-SS7 Cards, HP RISC servers.

• Deploy & configure Openstack based clouds for Telco Applications (IMS/EPC) using KVM, Nova, Swift,

Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Neutron, openvswitch.

• Experience in HA solutions, Pacemaker, DRBD, database performed hands-on technical implementation,

troubleshooting, providing supporting on cloud issues.

• Working on design and implementation of VMware based cloud for Telco Operators for TAS/IMS

application, deploying Virtual Center, vCloud Director, DRS and HA, vmotion. Designed and

Implemented Microsoft Active Directory. EMC storage configuration iSCSI.

• Deployed & Integrated RCS on Telco-Cloud & integration with IMS nodes for PoC at MWC.

• Analyzing customer requirements work with local team, solution designing/planning, Migration

strategies, Coordinate with R&D for solution delivery.

• Preparing Technical documents, MoP/LLD, involve on design optimizations and customizations with

engineering.

• Integration & support of Caller-ID (IMS/VoIP call on IPTV/STB) Application used TWC (USA).

SAP Mobile via Princeton Information

Lead Engineer (Professional Services)

Job Summary:

• Working with Sales team to analyze business requirements of customers and provide solutions,

network planning as per need.

• Working with operators to deliver requested services through provisioning new customers in

IPX/GRX/LTE, enabling routing and ensuring end-to-end Roaming message flows.

• Responsible for Vendors interaction for new Products features Testing, analyzing the new

requirements.

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Implementation & configuration of Diameter signaling Router( DRA/DEA/IWF), IBCF/UAG

Load balancer, SIP-Proxy, DNS, Net-scout Probe/DPI & Applications for SAP IPX/GRX.

• Preparing technical documents, MoP, RCA and testing of new of releases before launching on

production.

• Deployed IMS-LTE in Lab roaming/simulating issues using Seagull, SIPp, DRA/DEA/IWF, SIP

proxy/router, HSS, SBC & other open source simulators & tools.

• Working with system & network team in planning/sizing/deployment of Virtual Infrastructure (virtual

machines/ Appliances) expansion of nodes, Failover /network Geo-redundancy.

Roamware

Sr. Engineer (Professional Services)

Job Profile

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Implementation & support of various VAS applications Welcome SMS, Traffic Control /Steering

(Roaming), Policy Control, Fraud Detection & Prevention. Traffic Monitoring/Analysis,

Virtual Roaming Hub(Dual IMSI), SMSC, IP probes used by mobile operators

• Planning & designing of solution (System/Network) during project implementation at client’s site.

• Coordinating with the operators during Integration of Roamware applications to various telecom

nodes using SS7/sigtran/IP (MAP/SCCP, SMPP, SCTP and HTTP, SNMP, Radius/Diameter) based

connectivity.

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Installation/administration of operating system (Solaris, Red-hat Linux), database (Oracle) tomcatApache

web server, Sun/hp servers & storages.

• Prepare project related doc HLD/LLD MOP for planned activities/upgrades.

• Providing support on production servers/applications, handling daily issues regarding applications/os

network/resolving analyzing applications logs/network traces, writing sql queries for database.

• Creating tickets for bugs in applications, coordinating with development team to resolve issues,

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Performing system administration tasks, performance tuning of applications/OS, monitoring, backup.

July 2011 to March 2013

March 2013 to Dec 2014

• Providing support & troubleshooting network/system /database issues, analyzing applications logs

traces, scripting, coordinating with vendor for product bugs.

Adaptive Mobile Security Solutions

June 2009 to July 2011

Consultant Implementation (Professional services)

Job Profile:

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Implementation of Network Protection Platform a carrier grade Policy control & Content filtering

solution used by Mobile Operators/communication service provider for Mobile Internet (Email

Spamming, Web), SMS Fraud/Spoofing detection.

Implementation & Integration of 3rd party applications Rules-space, Symantec Bright mail, Spamhaus

DNSBL/RBL for IP reputation, Antivirus, Send-Mail, Squid, Google Safe browsing, DPI with Policy

control Engine (PEP/PCEF) & PDF/PCRF).

 Solution planning & designing with senior architects for new & ongoing project deployments.

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Installation of products for PoC, planning-designing with team as per customer requirement

Installation configuration of DRBD-HA clusters for database (mysql) & storage (NFS).

Integration of solution with mobile telecom nodes using IP, Sigtran, SMPP, Diameter/Radius, ICAP, MAP

and SMPP interface.

 Analyzing application logs, network traces using wireshark to resolve issue, working with engineering/QA

team to resolve bugs, preparing RCA of issue, call flow analysis.

 Coordinating with the operators and 3rd party vendors during the installation.

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Installed and configured on Applications on VMware based platform.

ORG Informatics Ltd. New Delhi

Sr. Engineer (Implementation & Support)

Job Profile:

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 Worked on several projects, including: Up-gradation/Migration of servers(Mail/Web/Directory)/Firewall /

IT infrastructure deployment, High Availability cluster on Linux/windows platform

Implementation planning & deployment of complete IT solutions, applications, system & network

administration of Unix/Linux/Windows servers, storages/SAN for various clients.

 Supported Linux, UNIX, Windows 2003 (AD), Dns/Bind, DDCP, web servers (Apache, IIS), MS SQL 2005,

Symantec Endpoint Protection server, NMS/SNMP server, NFS, LVM, Samba, and FTP, SendMail.

Implemented & configured firewalls/proxy Cisco ASA, Squid proxy, iptables, MS-ISA 2006/TMG.

Implemented LDAP/NIS and integrate with windows based NAS for centralized authentication.

Installed and configured HP/IBM blade/rack servers, storages (SAN/NAS), Cisco switches/router, KVM,

HP iLO/HP-OA.

• Product Support Engineer, Pleasance Technologies

• Support Engineer, Competent Software

Education

 B. Tech in Comp Sc & Engineering from Rajasthan Vidhyapeeth University Rajasthan.

 3 year Polytechnic Diploma in Computer Engineering from MSIP&T affiliated Board of Technical

Education, Delhi.

 Attended CCNA training conducted at ORG Informatics Ltd.

Jan ‘06 to Dec ’06

Dec.’03 to Jun’05

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Dec 2006 to May2009

Date

Akhil Gupta