Oonnikannan Vijayakumar

About Oonnikannan Vijayakumar

I have always been fascinated by how a simple binary world can be used to create path-breaking technology. My choice of career is my passion and not something I am doing as a compromise to earn my living. The world of network technology is a challenging field which requires seeing the big picture as well as being detail oriented. 10+ years of solution provider experience during which I have worked as a technical solutions engineer, technical marketing engineer, technical post-sales & pre-sales engineer facing real-time customer challenges and requirements by designing, implementing & troubleshooting multi vendor based data and wireless technology solutions. Areas of interest are Systems Engineering, Deployments, IT Consulting and Escalation Management. Specialties: CISCO CERTIFICATIONS 1. Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) 2. Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) 3. Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP) 4. Cisco Advanced RnS Solutions and Sales Specialist 5. Cisco Express Foundation Field Specialist 6. Cisco Certified Security Professional (CCSP) 7. Cisco ASA Specialist 8. Cisco IPS Specialist AWS CERTIFICATIONS 1. AWS Cloud Practitioner HP CERTIFICATIONS 1. HP Master Accredited Systems Engineer (HP MASE) 2. HP Accredited Solutions Expert (HP ASE) 3. HP Accredited Integration Specialist (HP AIS) MOXA CERTIFICATION MOXA Application & Solution Certification (MASC) TRAINING ATTENDED 1. OpenStack Bootcamp at Cisco, San Jose 2. Bluecoat - BCCWAN, BCCPP 3. EC-Council Certification - CEH TRADE SHOW PARTICIPATIONS Mobile World Congress Broadband World Forum Cable-Tec Expo (SCTE) ANGA COM Cisco Connect GITEX

Experience

1. Technical Solutions Engineer

   Casa Systems, Inc

   Jun 2017 — Present · Andover, MA

   Worked on Casa\'s containerized 5GC, EPC on multiple different cloud platforms such as Red Hat Openshift (single-node and multi-node flavors), Google Cloud Platform GKE/GDCE and AWS EKS/EKS-A. • Worked on Casa’s virtualized wireless (EPC, SeGW, HeNB-GW, AGF, ePDG, WAG) and wireline (vBNG, MSR-PE) products. • Pre and post-sales on-site/remote engagements including PoCs, lab, field trials and post-sales deployments. • Execute test cases as per test plan, assist development team in troubleshooting and defect resolution. • Validate software releases for customer workloads. • Work with System Engineering on Requirements Review, Definition and Test plan reviews. • Provide new release feature training to customers and field engineers. • Provide support to the regional sales team by participating in technical/non-technical meetings with customers to understand and design solutions as per client requirements. • Involved in Casa product demonstration at various trade show events. • TCP/IP protocols, LTE, Wi-Fi, Telco, 3GPP standards. • Load testing using SR-IOV, PT, OVS-DPDK models. • Engage with software teams on customer escalations for deep dive troubleshooting. • Operating Systems - Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), Cisco IOS, Casa OS • NFV & Cloud Technologies: QEMU-KVM, OpenStack, OpenShift, GCP, AWS, VMWare, Linux Containers, Docker, Kubernetes • Scripting Languages: Python, Shell • Networking Protocols: TCP/IP, UDP, OSPF, BGP, VRF, VLAN, STP, HSRP, VRRP, DNS, DHCP, NTP, NAT, RADIUS, MPLS, ARP, IPSec, VxLAN, GRE, IPv6, 3GPP Protocols • Contribute towards SE-TAC team training knowledge base and help the respective teams to come up with documentations such as technical guides, best practices documents, configuration and installation content for internal, external use.

Education

• North Carolina State University

  Master of Science (MS), Computer Networking

  2013 — 2015

• Christ Nagar School

  Matriculation

  2000 — 2001

• St Thomas Central School

  Pre-University, Science Stream

  2001 — 2006

• University of Kerala

  B.Tech, Information Technology

  2006 — 2010

• International Indian School, Dammam

  Matriculation

  1993 — 2000