Danush Ravishankar Email & Phone Number

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

• Define and deliver automated deployment processes for network visibility and security solutions for end-users to improve our design and deployment practice success and efficiency of Gigamon Solutions.• Provide customers with Ansible solutions to bulk configure and maintain Gigamon Infrastructure in their network• Provide mentorship throughout on automation, optimization, and DevOps as related to network visibility and through webinars.• Provide dashboards and reports for Capacity Validation and Utilization of Gigamon Infrastructure.• Provide scripting support and automation engines to debug and troubleshoot Gigamon Fabric.• Provide network health visualization of Gigamon Fabric to customers for better understanding and troubleshooting capabilities.• Provide Rest Api utilization guidelines and troubleshooting support.• Provide Ansible playbooks for deploying virtual network taps on Windows and Linux servers.• Utilized Palo Alto's Prisma Cloud for CSPM to assess, monitor, and enforce security policies, ensuring compliance and securing cloud configurations across environments.• Managed and configured Palo Alto PA-5400, PA-7050, and PA-5050 series firewalls, deploying high-availability (HA) configurations and enhancing deep packet inspection (DPI) for improved security and traffic analysis.• Performed Palo Alto firewall log analysis and reporting, leveraging Panorama’s Logging Service and integrating with syslog for comprehensive monitoring and incident response.• Implemented advanced Palo Alto Firewall features, including URL Filtering, User-ID, App-ID, Content-ID, SSL Decryption, Threat Prevention, and Wildfire, to secure both inbound and outbound traffic.• Deployed Palo Alto firewalls integrated with VMware NSX, utilizing Layer 2 and Layer 3 interfaces on models such as VM-300, VM-500, and VM-1000-HV.• Conducted security audits and assessments using Palo Alto tools to identify vulnerabilities, and resolved complex network security i

Middletown, New Jersey, United States

• Define and deliver automated deployment processes for network visibility and security solutions for end-users to improve our design and deployment practice success and efficiency.• Provide mentorship throughout on automation, optimization, and DevOps as related to network visibility and information security deployment, operation and usability.• Identify opportunities to exploit existing and prospective solutions, as well as review applicable of network visibility use-cases, security policies and procedures with the business • Work closely with system architects to ensure business systems and applications meet security requirements in preparation for the end-user review; participate and contribute in internal reviews.• Work closely with and end-user technical teams to ensure developed tools, systems and applications meet appropriate security standards, policies and procedures• Work with other technical network visibility and security team members on policy compliance efforts in accordance with industry privacy and security regulations, and guidelines set forth by, Country, Federal and local laws, as applicable• Lead Network Automation and Network Management Automation using NETCONF YANG and Ansible.• As part of the AT&T MOW network automation project I have worked on creating and using REST API’s and JSON for network automation of ARISTA, Juniper and CISCO devices.• Trained my co-workers on TESTING team on Automation using PYTHON(NCCLIENT, NAPALM and NETMIKO).• Lead the functional and service related activities in a lab environment for new software and hardware releases of multi-vendor Ethernet capabilities (Juniper MX960, MX 2020, M 320, Arista 7280, Ciena- 3928, 3960, 3930, 3931)• Developed an interface for automated Network device configuration of devices using PYTHON via NETCONF YANG.• Developed technical plans that include hardware and software designs to conduct certifications of new and modified network elements, management systems

Middletown, New Jersey, United States

• Developed technical plans that include hardware and software designs to conduct certifications of new and modified network elements, management systems, or applications associated with new Ethernet and networking capabilities. • Additionally, will be evaluated and applied test standards and procedures to identify architecture or integration problems in network elements. • Responsible for collaboration with network equipment vendors to resolve modification requests, as well as for the collaboration with network design and operations planning organizations to devise new approaches to technical problems in new network elements.• Worked on network automation scripts for the implementation of VLAN Based and Port based Ethernet services.

Cortland, New York, United States

• Python Based UI for automatic calibration of the Cargo Sensor on serial connection. Integrating power monitoring to the D-controller using CAN protocol.Design of stepper motor controlled test unit for automated calibration of the cargo sensor Conducted DFMEA on the Cargo sensor and made the DFMEA report. • 3-PHASE POWER METER, tested and modified an existing design using LT-SPICE. Conducted tests to determine the efficiency and proper working of the meter while measuring high voltages. • MODBUS message reception from AcuRev Power meters and converting them to SUNSPEC messages using Python socket programming.Coded Synapse E12 to act as a message hub to receive/transfer messages via SSL and serial communication using Python socket programming. • Data visualization and analysis using python and pandas environment for extraction of Power Readings from an SQL database to generate a daily report. The firmware for the generation of this report was done using Python.Rendered technical drawings and electrical systems specifications that exceeded company standards. • Developed and managed network-related projects with minimal disruption to clients, collaborating with the SOC team to block and unblock IP addresses across the network.• Developed and established new network services and standards for WAN, LAN, and wireless communications, including advanced solutions such as VPN, MPLS, SD-WAN, and Metro Ethernet.• Configured Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) to prevent loops and implemented trunking using 802.1Q on Cisco Catalyst switches. Enforced various port security features and configured VLANs to segregate different departments. • Provided onsite and after-hours support as part of an on-call rotation, while actively participating in the implementation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of Local Area Networks (LANs) to meet the company’s requirements.

Master Of Science - Ms, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering

Activities and Societies: IEEE

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical, Electronics And Communications Engineering