Krishna Venkatraman

About Krishna Venkatraman

A proven track record of fostering Customer Success with Cloud, Data Center, SD WAN, Secure Access Service Edge (SASE), Firewall Management & Configuration Management Automation projects spanning across telecom providers, financial institutions and Banks throughout North America, South America, Europe and Australia.Adept in crafting new solutions by working with enterprises to translate business requirements into technical architecture and system design that begets strategic customer success and quick ROI.Custom Software Development & System Integration specialist with significant experience on integration of myriads of disparate customer platforms involving legacy as well a cutting edge solutions.Expertise with driving Multi cloud orchestration & Network Automation efforts spanning across various domains such as virtual private clouds, private cloud data centers etc deployed across multivendor SD WAN overlays.

Experience

1. Senior Solutions Architect

   Cisco

   Sep 2022 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Drove successful SDWAN Automation solution for Cisco Viptela SDWAN deployments spanning over multiple releases with automation use cases fulfilling multi country scaling limits for large European Enterprise customerTransformed the SDWAN Automation solution to meet the rigors of large scaling demands by establishing best practices and standards in custom software development, Internal testing and external UAT, DevOps for production deployment and successful customer adoptions.Introduced Pro-active monitoring procedures for various solution components by enabling monitoring solutions and key KPI indices.Acted as a trusted customer advisor by collaborating closely with customers and the delivery teams to address the key customer pain points in the solution by prioritizing resolution fixes across various release builds.Provided escalation support for Sev1/Sev2 issues in production with the perspective as an End-to-end Automation Architect.Translated the issues stemming from production escalations into requirements along with appropriate high-level design to meet the scale.Conceptualized and drove SASE Automation architecture using Multi-Controller Orchestration Solution by coalescing functions such as SDWAN, Cloud Security, Firewall Management, Identity Management & Cloud and Network wide Visibility.Steered adoptions of SASE Architectural components using Cisco products & Solutions for Service Providers and Enterprise customers. Incubation of platforms to facilitate successful customer journeys by driving Pilot PoCs, development of migration tools from legacy to Cisco SDWAN, Cloud & Security Architectures, Day-2 enablement tools for ongoing Internet/Cloud insights, monitoring etc.

Education

• The University of Texas at Austin – Center for Professional Education (CPE)

  Certificate, Data Analytics & Big Data

  2018 — 2019

• D A V Matriculation High School

  High School

  2001 — 2003

• The University of Texas at Dallas

  Master of Science, Computer Science

  2007 — 2009

• National Institute of Technology Silchar

  B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

  2003 — 2007

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Web Services
• Xml
• Scrum
• Eclipse
• Java
• Jsp
• Ajax
• Java Enterprise Edition
• Oracle
• Javascript
• Linux
• Servlets
• C#
• Junit
• Stored Procedures
• Tomcat
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Sharepoint
• Sdlc
• Ejb
• Saas
• Pl/Sql
• Glassfish
• Tfs
• Visual Studio
• Ant
• Build Automation
• Agile
• Requirements Analysis
• Java Web Applications
• J2ee
• Jax-Ws
• Easymock
• Sql Server 2000-2008
• Jboss
• Html
• Sql
• Jdbc
• Enterprise Architecture