About

Arpan Desai is a Services Engineer 1 at Verimatrix, with over 5 years of relevant experience in networking and security. He is an Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Student at The State University of New York at New Paltz, where he specialized in Networking and Security. Arpan has a strong academic background in computer networking, cloud computing, cybersecurity, network security, software-defined networks, and various communication technologies. He possesses excellent technical skills in networking protocols, network security, internet technologies, virtualization, cloud technologies, orchestration technology, networking tools, ITSM tools, agile management, code management, and analytics platforms. Arpan is certified in CCNA and AWS Solutions Architect. At Verimatrix, Arpan is responsible for deploying a Linux-based server for various platforms such as IPTV, internet TV on AWS Fargate cluster using Amazon Elastic Container service. He implements application health monitoring using Icinga by creating regular application health checks to proactively improve service resilience. Arpan also integrates a centralized on-call alerting and incident response using Opegenie with Icinga application health monitoring systems to detect an issue before they become full-fledged outages. Arpan has previously worked as a Network Engineer at RSI Security, where he maintained and administered computer networks and related computing environments, including systems software, applications software, hardware, and configurations. He also has experience in configuring Cisco Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Access points, and IP Phones as part of an IT Expansion project. Arpan has also worked as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at SUNY New Paltz, where he graded assignments, assisted with course preparation, conducted lab sessions, and tutored students. Arpan holds an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from The State University of New York, a B.Tech. in Electronic and Communications Engineering Technology from Charotar University of Science and Technology, and a Diploma in Electronics and Communications Engineering from V.P.M.P. Polytechnic, Gandhinagar. Arpan is proficient in AWS, Ansible, infra, ECS, Docker, Elastic Search, Salesforce, Mobile, and is a Senior Software Engineer. He can be reached via email at arpandesai2694@gmail.com or contact@arpandesai.com.