Somu Jayaraman
Tracy,CA
Summary
Senior Technical Solutions Architect for Strategic Accounts at Cisco Systems, primarily focused on solving complex business problems, Solution architect using Cisco Products, technologies, and solutions. Understanding the customer requirements and business goals and fully comprehend the current state and design a technical and business project journey to the future state design. Building Architecture roadmaps that span multiple technology domains and architectures and being a Trusted Technical expert to create, deliver and educate on a solution. Expertise: SD-WAN, Multi-cloud Networking, Data Center Technologies -VXLAN, ESI multi-homing, Fabric path, OTV, and Network Insights, DCNM, Micro-services,LAN Switching (L2) Technologies, OSPF, BGP, MPLS
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Senior Technical Solutions Architect
Cisco Systems
12.2019 - Current
- Solution architect using Cisco Products, technologies, and solutions
- Understanding the customer requirements and business goals and fully comprehend the current state and design a technical and business project journey to the future state design
- Building Architecture roadmaps that span multiple technology domains and architectures and being a Trusted Technical expert to create, deliver and educate on a solution.
Senior Software Engineer - Product Quality
Cisco Systems
04.2018 - 12.2019
- Feature testing and validation on different platforms and making sure the feature is indeed hardened and working at its fullest before shipping it to customers
- Presented various Solution testing POCs for customers which had increased customer adoption of Nexus platforms.
Senior Engineer, Technical services - DataCenter Switching (TAC)
Cisco Systems
06.2014 - 04.2018
- Troubleshooting high critical network issues in some of the world's most sophisticated data centers which involves Data Center Technologies such as Fabricpath, OTV, VPC and VXLAN
- Expert in Tracing the path of the packet in hardware on Cutting Edge Datacenter switches like Nexus 9000, Nexus 3000, Nexus 7000 and Nexus 6000.
Education
B.E - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
India05.2008
Skills
- CCIE Datacenter
- CCIP
- CCNP
- Presentation Skills
- Objection handling Skills
- Competitive Intelligence
Accomplishments
Partner enablement - Proud Co-author of SDWAN design series - https://tinyurl.com/2c7wunsr
Certification
- CCIE Datacenter
- Cisco Certified DevNet Associate
- VCP5- DCV
- RHCE
Timeline
Senior Technical Solutions Architect
Cisco Systems
12.2019 - Current
Senior Software Engineer - Product Quality
Cisco Systems
04.2018 - 12.2019
Senior Engineer, Technical services - DataCenter Switching (TAC)
Cisco Systems
06.2014 - 04.2018
- CCIE Datacenter
- Cisco Certified DevNet Associate
- VCP5- DCV
- RHCE
B.E - Electronics & Communication Engineering
SRM Valliammai Engineering College
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