Telecom Technology | Customer success focused | Team man- Telecom professional specialising in the areas of Telco Cloud, Automation by design, Network DevOps, Cloud based network deployments (SDN/NFV), OSS/BSS architectures- Focussed on customer enablement on solutions for 5G orchestration, hybrid cloud and networking- Working with a diverse teams across geographies in the areas of Telco Cloud, SDN NFV, Analytics & OSS. - Currently focussed on large scale network cloud transformation projects

5G Slicing Architect in the new Rakuten Communication Platform for the end-to-end Orchestrator in the CTO organization.The role involved identifying the prototyping E2E 5G slicing use case and adding as market place products for the Rakuten Communication Platform.Expertise in architecting an orchestrator platform for device which sit between the OSS/BSS and RAN / 5G core components.Solutioning of the 5G slicing use cases and different aspect of the orchestrator to realize slicing in the network.

Lumina Networks helped transform the way communication service providers deploy open source platforms to regain control of their networks. Expertise collaborating with AT&T and Verizon for their solutions in telecom cloud platforms mainly ONAP and ORAN with focus on product development of open telecom cloud infrastructure.· Telecom use cases in ONAP and ORAN and productization of deployments as well as cross community interfacing.· End to end POC with AT&T for deployment of the ODL platform· Worked with Verizon for ODL infrastructure and connecting to various network routers for automated service assurance and configuration.· Integrated Lumina’s SDN controller into ONAP for device discovery and configuration.· New Product development in monitoring cross community nodes.

Embedded Software, Board Support Packages, MIPS, IP Networking, VoIP, CPE devices, Video and Voice over packet, Device Drivers, VxWorks, Linux internals.

Real Time Systems Group - Board support packages Data Acquisition systems