Sandeep Koppa Balasubramanyam
Principal Engineer 2
Parker,CO
Summary
Results-oriented engineer coupled with training, supervisory, mentoring, and leadership skills looking to expand into new environments and technologies. Recognized for strong work ethic, quality focus, and being a team player, which compliments my first rate communication and collaboration skills to work in diverse group effectively.
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications
Work History
Principal Engineer2 (Application Platform Service)
Charter Communications, Spectrum
03.2023 - Current
- Provided end-to-end support for BSS/OSS platforms, API transactions, and system integrations.Led NBO provisioning for APS, supporting back-office apps and 5G device engineering, including HMNO 5G provisioning.
- Contributed to AWS cost management and database optimization, driving efficiency and cost savings.
- Enhanced CI/CD pipelines and supported feature releases, optimizing deployments and reducing risks.
- Automated monitoring and metrics, focusing on latency with MVNO partners.Collaborated with MVNOs and vendors for technical enhancements aligned with business needs.Integrated system resiliency features and developed operational playbooks with development teams.
- Ensured network security through patching and vulnerability management in public cloud infrastructure.Supported application performance through database optimization, scaling, and defragmentation.
- Mentored junior engineers in best practices for problem-solving, fostering professional growth and development within the team.Applied development best practices in daily tasks for efficiency and accuracy.
Principal Engineer 2 (Wireless Core Engineering)
Charter Communications LLC
05.2021 - 04.2023
- Responsible primarily for the Wireless Core automation and cloud native infrastructure and products and collaborate with other engineering organizations, product development organizations, vendors, MSO partners and standards and policy organizations
- Lead Engineer involved in testing Ericsson 5G NFVI initiative to build the 5G core platform Containerized(CNF) on Charter CAAS platform both On-Prem and AWS on certified products such as EKS/Rancher
- Technical lead for developing Strategy with Pipeline Automation, virtualization and other cloud native technologies
- Contributes and represent Charter in relevant industry and standards forums such as CNCF, SCTE, Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA), CableLabs, IEEE
- Intellectual Property creation, patent filing and promotion of such IP through the contribution to relevant standards and industry forums
Principal Engineer (Public Cloud Infrastructure)
Charter Communications LLC
07.2018 - 05.2021
- Managed Public Cloud Infrastructure that leverage the following AWS services: EC2, SecurityHub (Firewall Manager, IAM Analyser, Macie, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie), VPC, S3, Route53, Lambda, IAM, Organization, Governance, CostExplorer, Config, EKS Fargate
- Work with Secops included deploy the AWS Solution for Security Hub Automated Response and Remediation based on recommendation
- Managed and supported Public Cloud infrastructure to support multiple production Organization within Charter
- Designed, deployed and managed AWS infrastructure using standard IAAS (Ansible, Python-Boto3, Terraform) and participated in pipeline automation including deployment tools (GitRunner, Jenkins) and maintained Code repos (GitLab)
- Built end to end complete Multi Cloud Network Architecture (Aws-GCP-Onprem Integration) using Native Cloud best practise and Orchestration Using Aviatrix Central Orchestrate (Complete Automation Deployment)
- Worked and Partnered within team for Cost Allocation using tagging to organize Cost allocation, Cost explorer
- Research and POC includes but limited to Sagemaker For Other
Senior / Principal Engineer
Charter Communications LLC
05.2017 - 07.2018
- Worked in Planning and Design (CIO) for Network Orchestration using Tools such as Cisco NSO and Workflow Orchestration (Itential) for more automated approach of deploying Day0 and Day1 Config Templates, execute core architecture related to application load balancing/security/routing-switching end to end, core network design involving multiple Datacenters
- Providing mentorship to junior peers and providing guidance and drive continuous improvements initiatives and working with the leadership to enhance the process and improve the challenges and cost optimize identified weak areas and budgeting
- Attend regular Engineering working group and conference sessions and discussions and member of SCTE/IETF
Engineer3
Comcast Corporation
03.2015 - 05.2017
- Help Different Application organization internally to help them roll out deployments in Cloud Foundry (PAAS) to achieve 'One Click' Deploy and integration (SteelCloud), using BOSH methodologies
- Working on integrating the REST API's for ADC and GTM Load balancing solutions with internal Web front tool which goes through Orchestration such as Tail-f NSO for provisioning
- Experience Working with Application owners during Supporting and maintaining Web Logic Application Servers (10.x, 11.x and 12c)
- Configuring and administration of JDBC connection pools and JMS factory connections environment
- Working on a specific project in Deploying and building web analytics service offered by Google Analytics for tracking and report website traffic
Engineer 2
Comcast Corporation
02.2012 - 03.2015
- Working on Automation tools (HPNA) to write policies/rules and push them on the network devices and running scripts to pull Audit reports
- Setup global name resolution using F5 GTM (Global Traffic Manager) to hand back different IPs based on geographic location
- Plan and work on design with Network team to re-architect F5 load balancers to load-balance traffic anywhere in the company network
- Responsible for producing key performance metrics and analysis associated with the National infrastructure that includes Layer3 and Optical
Network Voice Engineer
Comcast Corporation
03.2010 - 02.2012
- Provide day-to-day network operations for transport, signaling, data and video for the National network backbone and local area issues
- Working with routers, switches, VoIP devices, Cable devices and wireless AP
- Working as an Admin for the Empirix tool for testing QoS of the network
- Working on backbone trunking issues like OC-48, OC-12, T3 & T1 for regular calls and 911 calls
- Also worked with vendors like AT&T, Qwest, Verizon, and Sprint etc
- On day to day basis as per the service level agreement on trunking, SIP & Video related issues
Network/System Administrator
Southern Illinois University
01.2009 - 02.2010
- Managed and regulated network tools and problem solving
- Daily administration of computer network and system maintenance
- Helped Senior Managers with maintenance of high standards of positive time and working
- Installed hardware and software - NICs, Hard drive, Windows XP/VISTA, Linux Red Hat(6.2)
Education
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2004 - 01.2008
MS - ECE (Major in Telecommunications)
Southern Illinois University
01.2008 - 01.2010
Skills
- Terraform
- Cloudformation
- Ansible
- Docker
- AWS
- GCP
- JSON
- REST API
- Python
- Go
- Shell
- RDS
- DYNAMO
- Postgress
- TCP/IP
- UDP
- DNS
- DHCP
- IPsec VPN
- Kill-Bots
- TLS
- AWS Security Services
- VMWare
- Cloud Foundry
- Git
- Jenkins
- Kubernetes
- Oracle
Certification
Aviatrix MultiCloud ACE, 2020
Training
- CNCF Virtual Summit, 2019, 2020, 2021
- AWS ReInvent Virtual, 2018, 2019, 2020
- AWS Summit, 2018, 2019, 2020
- F5 Security Summit, 2016
- Cisco Live, 2015
- XILINX ISE (Design and Implementation of Cache Memory), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2009
- OPNET (Network Simulator, VOIP Application), Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2009
- Certificate for Participating in IEEE Technical leadership Conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, 2009
- Special course on the latest developments in 'Digital Signal Processing', Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Madras, 2004
- Certificate of Appreciation for active participation in the 'National Level Workshop' on 'Wireless Technologies', Indian Institute of Science (IISC), Bangalore, 2007
Timeline
Principal Engineer2 (Application Platform Service)
Charter Communications, Spectrum
03.2023 - Current
Principal Engineer 2 (Wireless Core Engineering)
Charter Communications LLC
05.2021 - 04.2023
Principal Engineer (Public Cloud Infrastructure)
Charter Communications LLC
07.2018 - 05.2021
Senior / Principal Engineer
Charter Communications LLC
05.2017 - 07.2018
Engineer3
Comcast Corporation
03.2015 - 05.2017
Engineer 2
Comcast Corporation
02.2012 - 03.2015
Network Voice Engineer
Comcast Corporation
03.2010 - 02.2012
Network/System Administrator
Southern Illinois University
01.2009 - 02.2010
MS - ECE (Major in Telecommunications)
Southern Illinois University
01.2008 - 01.2010
Bachelor of Engineering - Electronics and Communications
Visvesvaraya Technological University
01.2004 - 01.2008
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