About Me

I am a Functional Expert with 22+ years of experience in designing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting end-to-end network, cloud, and security infrastructures across SMB, Campuses, Enterprise and Service-Provider environments.

My core technical competencies include IPv4/IPv6, BGP/RPKI, MPLS/Segment Routing, SD-WAN, Routing security, multi-cloud networking (AWS, Azure, and GCP), and Network Automation. I have extensive expertise in automation and programmability using Python, YANG, NETCONF/RESTCONF, SALT, and Ansible, enabling scalable, efficient, and policy-driven network operations.

I have provided expert-level technical support, architecture guidance, consulting, and strategic solutions for complex enterprise and service-provider networks, covering network architecture, routing and switching, cloud infrastructure, security, automation, and operational transformation.

I am also an active contributor to the global Internet and networking community, with extensive engagement in international forums and organizations including IETF, ICANN, ISOC, APNIC, SANOG, INNOG, APRICOT, WSIS, APrIGF, and IGF. These engagements have provided opportunities to collaborate with global industry experts, contribute to Internet standards and best practices, and remain at the forefront of Internet infrastructure, Routing Security, Internet governance, cybersecurity, and emerging technologies.

Current Areas of Focus

• Routing Security & Internet Resilience — RPKI (RFC 8210), ROA, ASPA, BGP Security, MANRS (https://manrs.org/)

• Network Automation & Programmability — Python, NETCONF/YANG, RESTCONF, gNMI, GRPC, Ansible, SALT

• AI Security & AI Penetration Testing

• Cloud & Multi-Cloud Security

• AI Infrastructure & Data Center Networking

• IPv6 Migrations, Transitions and Security

• DNS/DNSSEC

Fellowships / Contributions:

• Internet Society - MANRS (2021) Fellow

• ICANN 57 Fellow (https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/hyderabad57-attendees-2016-11-23-en)

• inSIG 2017

• Internet Society Fellow Collaborative Leader Program - Global iNet 2012

• Internet Society Fellow IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) 90

• IETF Mentee & Member of Draft Review Team. v6 Ops Working Group Mentored by Late. Fred Baker (former. IETF Chair)

  (https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-templin-v6ops-pdhost-05#section-10)

• APNIC (Asia Pacific Network Information Center) Fellowship Mentor 2022 (IPv6)

  (https://www.apnic.net/community/fellowship/fs-2022/mentors/)

Technical Affiliations:

• Program Committee (PC) Member, South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) [30,31,32,33,36,37]

• Program Committee (PC) Member, Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT 2019)

• Program Committee (PC) Member, Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT 2018)

• Jury, IPv6 Hackathon, Asia Pacific Regional Conference on Operational Technologies (APRICOT 2018)

• Program Committee (PC) Member, Indian Networks Operators Group (INNOG) 1,2

• Program Committee & Fellowship Committee for APrIGF 2018 (APrIGF 2018 Committees)

• Multi-Stakeholder Steering Group (MSG) of APrIGF (2013 ~ 2018)