- Lead and mentor a team of 12 networking and software professionals to automate all aspects of optical device lifecycle in AWS network, covering provisioning, change management and decommissioning. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver scalable and reliable networking solutions, ensuring optimal performance and security for AWS services.- Remove bottlenecks to productivity through collaboration, process improvement and automation. Drive technical excellence by setting high standards for design reviews, coding practices, and architectural decisions.- Set clear and challenging vision for the team, thus fostering a culture of innovation and continuous learning, encouraging team members to explore new solutions to known problems as well as uncover hidden problems.- Interface with customers to understand their pain points and requirements, provide technical guidance, and ensure successful project deliveries.

- Architect audit tools and dashboards to visualize the network data discrepancies using AWS services such as S3, API Gateway, DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, SQS, Quicksight .- Develop automation to fully automate the provisioning of optical devices.- Design and develop automation to deploy configuration and software changes to thousands of optical devices in production network with zero manual intervention.

• Worked on qualification of Layer-1 encryption for vendor equipment and integrating it with the automation systems to perform automatic encryption key rotation, alarming and remediation tools.• Defined a universal data model of various link types to describe the network topology across various networking layers. Worked with software teams to consume the link data model for optical links in automation systems. Defined logic to ingest the LLDP based neighbour information for optical devices into inventory management systems and created audits to keep the databases up to date.• Responsible for automating device operations for optical devices using Python.• Member of the network operations oncall rotation responsible for maintaining optical network. Perform thorough investigations into any network outages, dive deep to identify their root causes and devise effective solutions to prevent their recurrence.

> Design optical networks based on Cisco’s DWDM platform and check the optical feasibility of the network taking linear and nonlinear effects into account using Cisco optical network design tool (Cisco Transport Planner - CTP). This includes networks based on coherent technology and flex ROADMs.> Design and validation of networks for long haul, metro and Web-OTT customers.> Assist the Sales team with optical aspects of RFP/ RFI responses.> Network debugging and handling customer escalations.> Provide customer Use-cases to build/enhance features in the network design tool.> OTN over DWDM planning tool: Development of algorithm to integrate OTN and DWDM planning by establishing an XML based communication between existing tools. > Design OTN-over-DWDM networks involving multilayer optimization with a goal to minimize the number of optical transponders using OTN aggregation and switching capabilities.> Delivered technical training on optical network to multiple teams across the business units.> Development of Python and excel based tools for Sales support. > Development and testing of optical algorithms for planning tool and WSON control plane : Includes algorithms for coherent transponders, Flex ROADMs. > Development of Python based scripts for automation and testing of optical algorithms in WSON control plane. > Translation of Lab results and specs into optical algorithms to be implemented in planning tool and WSON.