Akash Chatterjee

About Akash Chatterjee

A Network Enthusiast who loves how seemingly insignificant things connect to become a significant whole and make lives of people meaningful and worth living. Someone who believes in the potential of connecting even the smallest things. Contributing in my own way towards building a connected World; A World where no one\'s alone, where we all have each other :)Hyperscale Networking || CCNP || CCNA || DEVNET || ENCOR || SCOR || Cisco || SD WAN || Wireless || Distributed LAN || WLAN || Network Consultant

Experience

1. Cloud Network Engineer Ii

   Microsoft

   Mar 2025 — Present · Hyderabad, IN

   Primary Objective: Design, deploy and maintain hyperscale (CLOS) Data Center Networks to support AI workloads and lossless RDMA traffic on Azure.Key responsibilities: Support planned maintenances for optical circuits by coordinating with site support and service providers globally.Provide on-call support for troubleshooting issues related to device health, link utilization, packet drops, Customer reported issues, etc.Work with OEMs to troubleshoot critical issues and drive them to resolution on a timely basis.Contribute to development and continuous improvement of key automation workflows.Perform Root Cause Analysis for high impact incidents and chalk out improvement plans to avoid such issues in future.Work on designing new Network topologies and contribute to improving existing designs in Azure Data Centers.Work on updating existing config templates for Network devices.Protocols: BGP: ECMP, Standard and Extended Communities, Policy Based Routing, EVPNEncapsulation: VXLAN, NVGRE QoS: Low Latency Queuing, ECN, PFC

Education

• Academy of Technology

  Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics and Instrumentation

  2013 — 2017