Farhan Shaikh
Network Design Architect - SD-WAN (Cisco/Viptela, SilverPeak/Aruba, CloudGenix/Prisma, Cato), Cloud (Azure ExpressRoute, AWS Direct Connect, GCP Interconnect), LAN (Switching, WiFi) and WAN (Routing, MPLS, SR)
- Role
- Technical Architect at NTT DATA
- Location
- Mumbai, MH, IN
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
Experience
Technical Architect
Jun 2023 — Present · Mumbai, IN
Collaborated with customers and sales teams during the bidding phase, delivering compelling responses to RFI, RFQ, and RFS to secure strategic deals.• Led technical workshops to present solution architecture and product capabilities, enhancing customer confidence and accelerating decision-making.• Engineered SD-WAN POCs (Cisco, Aruba, Palo Alto) in partnership with product engineering to align with complex customer design requirements.• Developed standardized templates for customer design, implementation, and pilot site migration, streamlining onboarding and delivery timelines.• Drove cross-functional design discussions with Platform, Architecture, Implementation, and Operations teams to ensure alignment and consensus.• Ensured all solution designs met defined service resilience, sustainability, and recovery time objectives, enhancing operational reliability.
Education
Seventh Day Adventist Higher Secondary School
SSC
Maharashtra College of Arts Science and Commerce 246 A Bellasis Road Byculla Mumbai 400 008
HSC
2001 — 2003
M.H. Saboo Siddik College Of Engineering
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering
2003 — 2007
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