Likitha Mallampalli
Scarborough,ME
Summary
Network Engineer | 10+ years of experience | SMB & Enterprise Sales Engineering | Cybersecurity | Fortinet NSE4 Certified | AWS | Azure | SD-WAN | Bridging Technical solutions with Business Value |
Overview
2027
2027
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Network Sales Engineer
Fortinet
2023 - Current
- Direct SMB Sales contributions assisted in realization of 6.7 Million in sales and profits.
- Technical pre-sales role focused on supporting SMB and Enterprise sales teams by designing security solutions, conducting product demos, and managing Proof of Concepts (POCs).
- Work closely with sales teams to drive new business, handling RFPs/RFIs, and performing technical presentations.
- Security Expertise: Strong knowledge of Cloud (AWS, Azure) , networking fundamentals (OSI model, routing, switching) and cybersecurity (firewalls, VPN, SD-WAN, threat management). Network infrastructure, security technologies, and enterprise environments
- Pre-Sales Activities: Deliver technical demonstrations, design security architectures, and manage lab setups for POCs.
- Collaboration: A influencer to translate customer technical requirements into business goals, frequently interacting with partners
- Fortinet Product Competency: Fortigate, FortiSASE, Secure SD-WAN, FortiClient EMS, Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), FortiAP, FortiSwitch, FortiNAC, FortiDLP, FortiManager, fortiAnalyzer, Soc-as-a-service, FortiCNAPP, FortiSIEM
Principle IT Network Engineer
Microsoft + Nuance Communications
2021 - 2023
- Worked on architecture, design, and implementation of cloud-based solutions with AZURE Cloud Networking.
- Implemented and supported solutions that focus on overall health performance, operations and security. Hands-on experience with Palo-Alto Network Cloud Solutions Panorama. Arista Switching, F5 Load Balancing.
- Collaborated with clients and stakeholders to translate technical requirements into solutions or new product offerings for cloud environment. Worked with Session Border Controllers (SBCs), TelcoBridges and Telephony requirements with AI integration understanding call routing SIP sessions across the world.
- Created and updated many technical documentation on Confluence
- Familiar with security frameworks such as ISO27001, SOCII, PCI-DSS, and HIPAA
Network Engineer
PELOTON COMMUNICATIONS INC
2019 - 2021
- Build Peloton network from ground-up. Responsible for the architecture of the enterprise network and cloud networks with stack switching, VPN, SD-WAN, Aruba APs.
- Building Meraki Cloud site-to-site VPN peers with AWS across the world.
- Worked on Warehouse Management Services project with network readiness checks, site survey and migration.
- Monitoring day-to-day network performance, troubleshoot network problems, outages, participate in scheduled upgrades and worked towards network optimization.
- Routing and switching configuration of IP Voice services.
- Implementing hybrid network connectivity with third party infrastructure providers to design and deploy an enterprise level network solutions for both On- Prem and Cloud applications.
Network Engineer
Comcast
2018 - 2020
- Viper Operations IP Video Team - Responsible for the infrastructure and core routing design of all Converged Regional Area networks (CRANs) for Multicast routing used for Video, Voice and Data streaming over IP network for National Data Centers (Spine and Leaf Architecture), Regional Data Centers (U-ring Architecture) and Syndicate Networks
- Supported for real time network analysis, testing and operations of Cisco router and switches, Arista , F5 load balancers, Palo-Alto firewalls
- EAS and DAI architecture used for propagating assets and content delivery.
- Providing production support to a service provider, writing SMOPs, designing, deploying, and troubleshooting hardware and performing capacity management functions in an SP environment.
- Created an IP Ticketing System that reduced network triage time from 48 hours to an hour of time approximately.
ACCESS PROVISIONING ENGINEER
CALIX
2017 - 2018
- Provisioned VLANs, inter-vlan routing, DSLAM and core calix devices for new turnips related to century link’s CAF2 deployment, SLV, vectoring and Voice deployments
- Used validated network inputs to successfully provision required POTs, Data and Video Services on newly deployed Calix E3-48, E3-48C, E7-2 and C7 equipments
- Used python and Ansible scripts to collect inventory
- Provided engineering network designs and provisioned core network components including ALU 7750, Ciena 5140, Redback SE100/SE800/SMS1800/SMS10K and Fujitsu 9500
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Andhra University College of Engineering
Visakhapatnam, INDIAMaster of Science - Telecommunications Network Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology
Newark, NJ2017
Certification
- Fortinet NSE 4 Certified
- SD-WAN (ENSDWI 300-415)
- AZ - 700 Microsoft Azure Network Engineer
- Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions (ECMS)
- PAN 210 - Palo Alto Certification
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- CCNA
Timeline
Network Sales Engineer
Fortinet
2023 - Current
Principle IT Network Engineer
Microsoft + Nuance Communications
2021 - 2023
Network Engineer
PELOTON COMMUNICATIONS INC
2019 - 2021
Network Engineer
Comcast
2018 - 2020
ACCESS PROVISIONING ENGINEER
CALIX
2017 - 2018
Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Andhra University College of Engineering
Master of Science - Telecommunications Network Engineering
New Jersey Institute of Technology