Pushkar Bhatkoti's blog………..

0. BACKGROUND

The blogger holds Double CCIE and Double Masters Degree. He is also a strong supporter of open source community. He has an interest in porting Linux kernel and writing device drivers for AMD/i86 boards. He has been using Linux as his primary desktop for the last 6 years. In free time (when he’s not playing tennis or bush walking), he loves to port Linux kernel on different boards.

For living, I am an IT Technical Consultant based in Sydney, Australia. I am expert in various domains in IT and Telecommunications.

1. MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS:V-BLOCK based Teleco Cloud – design and implementation

• A few large IPTEL distributed clusters – 8K to 12K handsets.
• Architectured 37 nodes Hadoop cluster for parallel data processing using mapReduce.
• A few large scale GetVPN deployment

• Personal OpenFlow project – Successfully ported custom tiny kernel using BuildRoot on ARM board and now doing some custom development in userspace (porting Quaga, sFLOW ipFlow and other networking protocols). This is what keeps him busy when I have nothing to do.

2. ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• 2006-2007 – Charles Stuart University, Australia
  Master Degree in Networking and System Administration (with Distinction, GPA 6/7)
• 2000-2001 – CCS University, India
  Master degree in Statistics/Micro Economics

3. TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:

• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) – Security #21569
• Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) – Voice #21569
• Cisco Data Centre Unified Computing Support Specialist (DCUCI)
• Alvarion Certified WIMAX Engineer (ACWE) – 802.16d and 802.16E
• Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) – Solaris 8.0
• Check Point Certified Security Administrator (CCSA) – Checkpoint 3x
• Cisco Secure PIX Firewall Advance (CSPFA)
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
• Cisco Certified Design Associate (CCDA)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
• Microsoft Certified System Engineer (MCSE) – NT 4.0
• ITIL v3 certified (Foundation)
• Diploma course in Computer Software programming (1 year)

4. COURSES AND TECHNICAL SEMINARS

• Attended Cisco-Live Melbourne 2012.
• Attended Cisco UCS training on “DCUCI” course – 2 days in 2010.
• Attended VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM) course – 2 days in 2010.
• Attended Cisco Networkers 2009 in Brisbane.
• Attended VMware High Availability (HA & FT) course – 3 days in 2010.
• Attended Hands on Workshop on Cisco WAAS solution – 1 week in 2007.
• Attended Expand WAN Accelerator training – 2 days in 2006.
• Attended Radware Load Balancer (Link-Proof/Defence-Pro) training – 3 days in 2006.
• Attended RAD products hands on workshop in Vietnam – 1 week in 2005.
• Attended MPLS Advance Switching Course from Geneva Switzerland – 2 weeks in 2003.
• Attended Linux world 2003, New Delhi India – 3 days in 2003.

 5. TECHNOLOGY SKILL MATRIX:

AREA OF SKILL	SCALE	SKILL LEVEL	REMARKS
Security	10	8	IPSEC, DMVPN, Get-VPN, EZVPN, IPS, IDS, HIDS, NIDS and compliance (PCI, ISO27xxx) Anti-virus, SIEM, end-point security & dot1x Pen Testing and SAN security.
IPTEL / Voice/Contact Centre	10	9	CUCM up to Version 8.6(2a), Unity, GW/GK, Asterisk, Presence, Microsoft Lync, Tele Presence, and Telco grade class 5 Soft-switch.
Routing & Switching	10	7	800 series to ASR1xxx & 29xx to Nexus 7K.
Cloud Computing (XaaS)	10	7	V-BLOCK
Storage & SAN	10	7	EMC & Cisco/Brocade
Windows & *NIX	10	7	Very strong in *.NIX, shell scripting.
Virtualization	10	7	VMware, XEN and some HiperV experience
Digital Media System & CMS	10	8	Cisco Kit – DMM and DMPs
WAN Optimization and Load Balancer	10	8	F5, Cisco and Brocade Load Balancers, iRULE. Expand, Riverbed & Cisco WaaS
Traditional Switching SDH/PDH/CWDM/DWDM	10	8	Primary, Secondary and tertiary Multiplexing over CWDM/DWDM.
WIMAX, WIFI & Backhaul radio	10	7	Alvarion WIMAX kit, Ceregon and Cisco WIFI

 6. THINGS THAT I DON”T LIKE:

Manually rolling up the hose after it has been used for a wash White listing mail server from RBL list. Cooking (well, love eating though ) Domestic talking on Christmas/Boxing day party.

7. MILESTONES:

• Passed  CCIE Voice Lab exam in 2008
• Passed CCIE Security Lab exam in 2011

8. CONTACT INFORMATION
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