Dipesh Kapadiya
Lead Architect and Engineering @RBC
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WORK HISTORY
Lead Architect and Engineering @RBC
Toronto, CA
Developed global optical architecture and technology standards for mission-critical financial workloads. • Engineered DWDM solutions across metro, regional, and backbone domains to support business growth. • Develop DCI technologies to enable high speed, low latency connections between Data Center’s, supporting applications like cloud, big data analytics, storage network and disaster recovery.• Collaborated with cross-functional teams to maintain a resilient optical ecosystem, ensuring high availability.• Drive long‑term strategy for capacity planning, modernization, and multi‑generation platform evolution.•Directed multi-region infrastructure modernization initiatives with budgets exceeding $1M to 5M annually.•Provided executive steering committee updates on capacity modeling, resiliency posture, vendor risk, and capital allocation.•P&L, cost optimization and vendor governance •Established KPI-driven vendor performance governance (MTTR, delivery SLAs, sparing models).
EDUCATION
DeVry Institute of Technology
Master's degree, Electronics and Telecommunication
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Electronics Engg., Electronics and telecommunication
SKILLS
ABOUT DIPESH KAPADIYA
Senior technology leader with 20+ years designing, architecting, and operating large-scale DWDM, fiber, and interconnection infrastructure across financial, research, and Tier‑1 carrier environments. Expert in translating business and customer requirements into scalable technical solutions, building multi‑generation roadmaps, modernizing infrastructure, and enabling innovative interconnection capabilities. Exceptionally strong at cross‑functional leadership, vendor management, lifecycle governance, and delivering reliable, high‑availability networks.Exceptional team contributor, leader, and coach who improves technical skills and confidence levels of cross-functional teams. Work consistently meeting availability.Specialties: Interconnection Architecture | Optical Transport (DWDM/OTN)| Product Lifecycle | Platform Roadmaps | Data Center & Edge Infrastructure | Fiber Strategy | Capacity Planning | Cross‑Functional Leadership | Vendor & Contract Mgmt | Network Modernization | Risk Mitigation analysisTECHNICAL/SPECIALIZED SKILLSTechnology: DWDM, ROADM, CWDM, SONET, Fiber Optics, OSP, ISP, ATM, Ethernet, Understanding of SLTE, Telecommunications and Internetworking - OSI Model, LAN/WAN, ATM, xDSL, DNS, HTTP, TCP/IP and Routing protocols ( EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IPV6, OSPFv3, MPLS), TL1, SNMP Test Equipment: EXFO, JDSU, IXIA, T-BERD (test sets for protocol simulation and verification of L0-L4 Data Plane such as OTDR, ORL, OCWR, OSA, OSI, BERT, Y.1564, Y.1731, RFC 2544) Equipment: Nokia, Ciena, Nortel, Cyan, Infinera, BTI, Cisco, Juniper, ADVA, Riverbed, Marconi Core SwitchLayer 1 knowledge, including patch panels, fiber optic connectors, optic types, and form factors (e.g, LC, SC, MTP, CFP2, QSFP, SFP+) Applications: Basic UNIX, VMware, MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, Microsoft Visio Systems: GIS CAD, IBM Tivoli Netcool Monitoring, Remedy Ticket, UNCLS, NMS, Granite Xing Standards: International Telecommunication Union (ITU-T) OTN, OIF, Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF), TIA/EIA, Telecom Common Language Information Services Codes (CLLI, CLEI, CLFI, CLCI, NC, NCI)
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