Responsibilities:

• Working on the cloud virtualization architecture team within the network technology group at Charter. Responsibilities include planning, design, implementation, and optimization of virtual and containerized systems.
• Lead development of Red Hat OpenShift based Edge data center platform to host container network functions.
• Built an ArgoCD GitOps pipeline to automate the management of OpenShift infrastructure and application lifecycles.
• Create design specifications, system builds, configuration guides and related documentation.
• Contribute to strategic architecture and roadmap development; provide tiered support across organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Worked on developing the data center network architecture and network application delivery solutions at Charter. Responsibilities include configuring lab environments and test/develop new solutions for the data center.
• Worked on development of containers as a service platform to deploy scalable Kubernetes clusters on vSphere and AWS.
• Incorporate test and build pipelines for a full stack deployment with infrastructure, Kubernetes and application charts.
• Evaluate, test, and optimize all components of NFV including NFVI, VIM and NFVO for edge and data center use cases.
• Certified use of packet acceleration technologies and SmartNICs for OpenStack and NFV cloud.
• Developed ansible playbooks to automate provisioning and management of Red Hat OpenStack clouds.
• Worked on installation, configuration, administration, and troubleshooting of OpenStack and Ceph.
• Developed test cases and performed certification testing of data center switching platforms.
• Worked on redesign, build and management of the lab consisting of 70+ racks of infrastructure from the ground up including network, compute, storage, virtualization and shared services.