Harsha Akkipeddi

Work History

Bain Capital

Boston, MA

3 2022 - Current

Oversaw company's entire network and related policies covering use, maintenance and infrastructure.
Spearheaded and led major network installation and upgrade projects.
Performed advanced engineering in configuration, management and deployment of AWS cloud environments and their integration with existing On-prem environments.
Installed and configured network security solutions such as VPNs, Firewalls and intrusion detections and mitigation tools.
Refreshed network architecture by deploying SDWAN at Data Center and remote locations which achieved more than 25% performance gain.
Improved and updated security policies using Aruba ClearPass for wired and wireless connections.
Re-engineered routing architectures (BGP/OSPF) with sub-second failover and simplified routing.

The TJX Companies (Cognizant)

Boston, MA

08.2019 - 03.2022

Led the network and security services which includes Routing & Switching, Firewalls, VPN, Wireless and Load-balancing.
Datacenter network management, operations and upgrades which include Cisco Nexus 9k switches as spine and ASR routers for WAN & Internet circuits.
Perform advanced problem identification, performance monitoring and capacity planning functions for all Cloud and on-premise infrastructure.
Azure cloud administration including ExpressRoute, Secure cloud interconnect, Application gateway and Virtual Networks.
Network automation and scripting using Netbrain and Ansible Tower.
Global DNS & DHCP service management using clustered Bluecat services.
Disaster Recovery design, replication and recovery testing every quarter to ensure seamless failover.

State Auto Insurance (Cognizant)

Columbus, OH

11.2016 - 08.2019

Provided operational support to Network and Security teams.
Routing implementation and changes across locations using BGP, EIGRP and OSPF protocols on Cisco ISR, ASR, Nexus devices.
AWS suite Administration and deployment of auto-scaling instances using Lambda and Cloud formation templates.
Creation of new security rules and regular old policy cleanup on Firewall/URL filtering blades - Checkpoint, ASA and Sophos firewalls.
Remote site management using MPLS, DMVPN, P2P and DIA connections and migrating them to SD-WAN architecture.
Deployment of Meraki and traditional Cisco Access points along with WLAN and authentication management.

9th Networks

Columbus, OH

06.2016 - 11.2016

VLAN management, Segmentation and design per industry standards and requirements.
Design, implementation and maintenance of PCI Infrastructure and assisting in security audits per PCI standards.
DHCP reservations, DNS A,NS record updates/creations and RADIUS authentications.
802.1x authentication setup using TACACS+ and limited access to domain users on certified endpoints.
Backup and restore device configurations from and to solarwinds and SFTP servers.

LAS UIC

Chicago, IL

01.2015 - 05.2016

Worked for the IT support team to service 26 departments of UIC.
Provisioning L2 and L3 Vlans with appropriate helper addresses and creation of DHCP scopes.
Policy-map and ACL management for Inter-Vlan and multi-site communications.
QoS configuration for various multi-media services.
IP address management and static assignments.