Ashish Upadhyay
Kirkland,WA
Summary
Analytical Systems Engineer with hands-on experience in areas of system administration, implementation and support. Knowledgeable and seasoned professional recognized for outstanding maintenance and troubleshooting abilities coupled with solid experience in various application stacks. Dedicated to implementing innovative solutions to solve technical challenges. Root cause analysis of production issues and implementing a fix/patch within SLA. Troubleshooting applications hosted on premises servers running on various Linux flavors. Working with Postgres SQL and Oracle DBs to perform data analysis with a geo/local redundant environment. Skilled in deployment and integration of docker containers to run applications that can support 5G calls. Proficient in RestFul APIs, cURL to replicate production issues in the lower environments. Comprehensive knowledge of TCP/IP, OSI layer and networking fundamentals. Solid foundation of virtualization concepts and experience managing virtual machines through VSphere client. A detail oriented, hardworking individual with strong communication and problem-solving skills.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Systems Engineer I
Comtech Telecommunications Corp
02.2022 - Current
- Creating project implementation timelines, reviewing with the dev, product and Ops team
- Implementing customer requirements in PROD and lab envs (IOT,PRE)
- Install Splunk instances and forwarders in the environment
- Create dashboard, Splunk queries, kvstore, automated reports and saved searches
- Reports and searches compile data that are used to share with the Customers
- Perform On-call duties such as implementing Operational Procedures in Production env, taking care of any PROD issues from starting services to troubleshooting applications/scripts owned by my team
- Accessing databases through mysql/postgress/timesten UI or command line clients to verify “source of truth” data and perform operations or analysis based on it
- Work with Splunk dev team to implement changes and handle upgrade operations for Splunk
- Create/modify bash scripts to run reports for legacy technology which is then shared to various customers
- Use defect managing and tracking tools to open/resolve defects or Prod INCs such ITSM,JIRA,Confluence.
Policy systems Engineer
Openet-Amdocs Inc
- 01.2022
- Design detailed test plans for validation of gateway, policy and charging nodes in accordance with 3gpp standards for the 5g architecture
- Engaged in troubleshooting, monitoring, and archiving system logs, K8 pod logs for validation and certification of the network for the customer
- Perform file manipulation, extraction and make use of other Linux commands such as sed, awk, grep
- Comfortable using Linux command line and troubleshooting system related issues such as performance, network
- Collaborate with different vendor teams to set up connectivity and then validate the functionalities as part of unit testing
- Deliver customer requirements by prioritizing tasks between cross-functional teams within the agreed timeline.
Systems Engineer
Collabera-Cisco
09.2019 - 02.2020
- Install RHEL 7.0 on the server and deploy Openstack’s undercloud and overcloud on the server based on Triple-O program
- Instantiate and manage pods using Kubernetes that run applications to support customer requirements
- Integrate and test 5G network functions for user plane and control plane production traffic
- Deploy the configurations using Cisco based NSO controller on 4G CUPS and 5G network elements
- Perform config audits for GW, PCRF and add the updated configurations in the network elements
- Verify and add network configurations on Cisco ASR 5xxx leaf and spine switches.
Network and Computer Administrator
Mobile Integration workgroup – AT&T
03.2018 - 12.2018
- Run and modify shell scripts on a server that sends API to initiate the MMS and SMS traffic for testing
- Work with vendors like Cisco to debug the error logs and messages in case of error codes
- Make use of Linux based network troubleshooting commands such as netstat, traceroute and ping to debug the connectivity issues
- Setting up cronjobs to collect reports for capacity or performance testing
- The reports would contain important information to monitor KPIs such as memory, CPU usage to determine the capacity
- Used PyCharm IDE PyCharm to develop python code and perform unit testing of network functions.
Systems Engineer
Orchestra Technology - AT&T
01.2015 - 02.2018
- Test APN DNS functionality for calls on AT&T network
- Run traffic on APN DNS VMs using traffic generation tools to check for the load handling capacity of the VM
- Create and run virtualization test cases for network, storage, and compute virtualization scenarios
- Setup high availability and debug SNMP alarms in case of improper function of the VMs
- Perform unit testing of 4G PCRF for dynamic resource allocation of the default bearer of a user
- Manage Virtual Machines using vSphere Client 6.0 and execute test cases to ensure proper anti-affinity rules, virtual network traffic, VM migration, high availability.
DAS Performance Engineer
Orchestra Technology
- 12.2014
- Worked with a team of 22 experienced and skilled engineers carrying out roles such as participating in site walks of venues to verify the design parameters and key performance metric (KPI) criteria
- Collect RF data using field scanners and process it using Windcatcher tool to determine key parameters such as RSSI, RSRP
- Commissioned and system verified sites using 5 step processes for ION B/ ION-M/ION-U, Corning Mobile Access systems.
Education
Master of Engineering- Telecommunication and Computers -
George Washington University
08.2014
Master of Engineering- Telecommunication and Computers -
George Washington University
08.2014
Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics and Telecommunications -
University of Mumbai
06.2012
Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics and Telecommunications -
University of Mumbai
06.2012
Skills
- System Troubleshooting
- Root Cause Analysis
- Troubleshooting
- Virtualization
- Apache/Springboot
- Critical Thinking
- VMware
- Kubernetes
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Systems Engineer I
Comtech Telecommunications Corp
02.2022 - Current
Systems Engineer
Collabera-Cisco
09.2019 - 02.2020
Network and Computer Administrator
Mobile Integration workgroup – AT&T
03.2018 - 12.2018
Systems Engineer
Orchestra Technology - AT&T
01.2015 - 02.2018
Policy systems Engineer
Openet-Amdocs Inc
- 01.2022
DAS Performance Engineer
Orchestra Technology
- 12.2014
Master of Engineering- Telecommunication and Computers -
George Washington University
Master of Engineering- Telecommunication and Computers -
George Washington University
Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics and Telecommunications -
University of Mumbai
Bachelor of Engineering – Electronics and Telecommunications -
University of Mumbai
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