KRISHNA KUMAR GATTUPALLI

• Solution design for existing customers on advanced network monitoring for Cloud based LTE/VoLTE/5G Networks.
• Facilitated comprehensive requirements gathering sessions with customers and stakeholders, creating unified documents and use case diagrams to ensure clear project objectives and effective planning.
• Conducted review sessions to validate requirements, driving consensus, and obtaining official signoff from key stakeholders, ensuring accurate and complete project documentation.
• Lead the development and execution of RFI/RFP responses, ensuring alignment with company objectives and client requirements.
• Utilize AI/ML driven anomaly detection and agile service assurance analytics to prioritize network and service anomalies, ensuring optimal CEM (Customer Experience Management) across LTE / VoLTE (SIP) and 5G networks of the CSP`s.
• Provided Cloud-native DataOps solutions integrating to Service assurance platform which give 360-degree overview of end-to-end network analysis.
• Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.
• Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
• Recommended design changes to production systems in response to changing business process, capacity, risks and performance requirements.
• Represented Elisa Polystar at MWC (Mopbile World Congress) Las Vegas 2024 event and effectively communicating the value proposition and differentiators of the company's solutions.

• Managing all the test environments on AWS with 5G Core / ORAN network functionTest Environments
• Design the plan and manage the 5G Core NF`s AMF, SMF, UPF, PCF, NRF, UDM / ORAN IOT (Interoperability) testing platform with all the partners like Fujitsu, JMA, Samsung, Mavenir and Nokia
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including AWS cloud team, Field Deployment team, PaaS team, Private Data Center team, technical SME's for various 5G project requirements
• Worked with customers or prospective customers to develop integrated solutions and lead detailed architectural dialogues to facilitate delivery of comprehensive solution.

• Validation and Configuration of 5G Core SMF and UPF wrt to feature release and lab exit validations
• Upgrades of SMF, UPF, CEE, SMI environments
• Troubleshooting and RCA at Kubernetes POD level
• Define configuration audit process of SMF/UPF for T-Mobile lab using Cisco NSO (network service orchestrator).
• Designed tailored disaster recovery solutions to maintain uptime.
• Conducted end-user reviews for modified and new systems.

Designed and implemented multiple PoC for Telecom customers. AWS outpost solution with AWS/TechM partnership. Metaswitch 5G Metcore/Fusion core on Kubernetes container platform in TechM cloud and AWS. Automated deployment of Metacore 5G CNF and NFs on Kubernetes container platform. Hybrid cloud VoLTE use case with AWS Cloud, TechM Private Cloud, and TechM Edge cloud. Designed TechM in-house solution NetOps.ai to automate Openstack cloud, edge cloud, Network slicing, VNF automation, CI/CD life cycle, enabling telecom services, and OSS for Telecom LTE & 5G infrastructure. Developed Qwilt MEC CDN uses case with Cisco CUPS Core, Altiostar RAN, F5 FWs, and TechM OpenStack cloud. Participated in the Mobile World Congress events in LA, US, and Barcelona, Spain in 2018, 2019 to demonstrate above use cases to Telecom customers on behalf of TechM.

* Kubernetes network troubleshooting and validation to check that the Kubernetes network is created and serves the whole cluster. The service VIP and intermediary pods get IP addresses from the Kubernetes network across the cluster.

* Understanding the new technology / requirement, validating that in the AT&T test labs & demonstrating to customer. Writing the technical test documentation with procedures and caveats on the existing or the new solutions to the field engineers based on the results from internal testing or design changes validation.

• Troubleshot and maintained networking devices and infrastructure across enterprise.
• Installed firewalls and VPNs to increase and manage client network security.
• Displayed sound understanding of standard networking protocols, virtual networks and load balancing.
• Defined cloud architecture for both hybrid and non-hybrid cloud solutions.