Rakesh Gunasekharan

Connectivity Platforms lead. End-to-End System Integration As a Connectivity Platforms lead, orchestrating new product development intake for labs, replicating production OSS Ecosystem for Broadband ISP. Aligning with blueprints. Ensuring the lab configurations match the production accurately. Configs on Nokia OLT, CMTS, NOKIA BNG, RADIUS-LDAP, Auto Configuration Server, BBF TR-069, Cisco Network Registrar, Servers, VM, WiFi, RF & Fiber Gateway, Router, and Switches are taken care of.

Networking, Storage, Servers, Virtualization and Hyper converged Infrastructure. I began my career with Network L2/L3 Protocol testing and later expanded my skill set to include Servers and Virtualization. Tested L2 and L3 Network Protocols on high-end Edge Routers such as C6500, 7600, 6848, and Switches like 2960, 3750. Conducted functional tests with ESXi (VMware), Hyper-V (Microsoft), and AHV (Nutanix, KVM Based) Hypervisors along with Nutanix OS on server hardware.