Vamsi Gadireddy

About Vamsi Gadireddy

Extensive experience as a Network Architect/Consultant primarily designing, implementing and administering enterprise & service provider networks.*Currently working as Sr. Network Engineer in Azure @ Microsoft.*Experienced in designing and deploying Webscale networks for public & private clouds.*Extensive experience in handling multi vendor networks (Cisco, Juniper, Arista) and worked on solutions for enterprises moving towards SDN (controller based networking).*Working on automation projects using Python.*Experienced in architecting and deploying Cisco UCS infrastructure for Virtualized datacenters.*Architected a large enterprise wireless deployment spanning about 60 different cities & 2 large campus sites from initial design till implementation.*Involved in installation & administration of Cable, DSL & Dial-up ISPs*Experienced in managing & troubleshooting complex networks, performance tuning and capacity planning of large enterprise networks.*Certifications • JNCIS - ENT• CCNP ( Certified Network Professional )• CCDP ( Cisco Certified Design Professional ) • CCS 1 ( Cisco Security Specialist )• Cisco IP Telephony Support Specialist• RCSP (Riverbed Certified Solutions Professional) Specialties: • Routers: Cisco 720x /38xx/37xx /36xx/26xx/25xx, uBR7246VXR, Juniper MX960• Data Center platforms: Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, 2k, UCS, Arista 7x50• Switches: Catalyst 65xx/400x/35xx• Access Servers: Cisco AS 5800/5300/5200• Wireless Access Points: Cisco12xx, Aruba 124/105 • Firewalls & IDS: Cisco PIX 535/525, Juniper SSG• Load Balancers: Cisco ACE 4710/ACE CSM, Citrix Netscaler 10k/8k, F5 8900• Cache: Net Cache1105 (Network Appliance)• NMS: NetQOS, VitalNet, CiscoWorks, Riverbed CMC, SAN Fabric Manager• WAN optimizer: Riverbed 6050/5010• SAN S/W: Cisco MDS

Experience

1. Sr Network Engineer, Azure

   Microsoft

   Mar 2013 — Present

   Worked on Critical customer migrations in Office 365 peering (Cisco to Juniper)*Designed multiple customer peering setup match our Edge Network capabilities and scale*Migrated various customers from VPN & private connectivity to Microsoft Enterprise Edge*Co-authored the QualityChecks framework used on the entire Buildout pipeline*Manage the Converged Buildout pipeline for Azure, AP, PF, Exchange *Performed 3 highly critical platform migrations at Dublin, Chicago & San Antonio including multiple enterprise customers with minimum downtime.*Working on supporting Office 365 networking solutions in Microsoft Data Centers.*Provided technical leadership from India for Sharepoint deployments across the globe.*Experienced in Python scripting and contributed to various automation initiatives including auto-config generation for migrations, pre/post script validations after critical migrations*Presented sessions on new data center architectures, hypervisor networking & controller based architectures at Techfest.*Received an award for delivering the critical edge stamps with quality and well ahead of the deadline.*Experienced in supporting various network architectures powering different properties in Microsoft data centers.*Deployed Microsoft Azure datacenters in Shanghai.*Received a Site-up award for contributing towards successfully migrating 30 customers off and old platform with no unexpected downtime.

Education

• Swamidoss

  10th Standard

  1991 — 1992

• Sri Venkateswara University

  Bachelor of Technology (B-Tech), Electronics & Communications

  1994 — 1998

• Georgia Institute of Technology

  Master of Science - MS, Computer Science

Skills

• Firewalls
• Cisco Certified
• Cisco Nexus
• Sip
• Communication Skills
• 5k
• Routing
• Wan
• Cisco Security
• Information Security
• Catalyst Switches
• Mpls
• Load Balancing
• F5 Bigip
• Bgp
• Security
• Netqos
• Pix
• Cisco Technologies
• Snmp
• Open Minded
• Wireless Access
• Storage Area Networks
• Ospf
• Routers
• Riverbed
• Nms
• Ipsec
• Troubleshooting
• Network Administration
• Juniper
• Switches
• System Deployment
• Itil
• Managed Services
• Qos
• Dns
• Eigrp
• Ccnp
• Cisco Routers