About

Rahul Goyal is a Senior Technical Lead at HCL Technologies with over 9 years of experience in the telecom industry specializing in Cloud Native 4G/5G Packet Core, vEPC Testing, and Automation. He is skilled in 2G, 3G, 4G (LTE), 5G Packet Core and Testing, LTE system integration on Cisco, Nokia, Samsung, VNL Product, and has functional knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub, Jenkins. Rahul has strong knowledge of 4G (vEPC-MME), 5G-NGC(AMF), and its elements. He is proficient in protocols such as NAS, S1-AP, NGAP, GTPv2, PFCP, HTTP 2.0, DIAMETER, SCTP, TCP/IP, UDP, and tools like Wireshark, lattice, pats, Grafana (cloud monitoring), Putty, WinSCP. He is also skilled in programming languages and automation using Cucumber scripting and operating systems such as Windows and Linux. With experience in use cases such as LTE/5G, Mobility, and working in a Cloud Native Environment, Rahul has a vast knowledge of technology and product, specifically 5G Packet Core - AMF and 4G LTE - eNB, vEPC, MME, UMTS - WCDMA, RNC, NodeB, and GSM - BTS, BSC. In his current role at HCL, Rahul is responsible for leading technical teams and delivering projects related to 4G/5G Packet Core, AMF, Kubernetes, Automation, CI/CD. His key competencies and skills include strong knowledge of 4G/5G Packet Core and its elements, protocols, tools, programming languages, operating systems, and functional knowledge of Cloud Infrastructure Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitHub, Jenkins. Rahul has previously worked at Vihaan as a Senior Engineer, where he was responsible for Packet Core Testing, RAN Integration, Remote Technical Support, Configuration Management, fault management, Network System Integration, and Network deployment 2G(GSM), 3G(WCDMA), and 4G(LTE) on Nokia, Samsung, VNL Product support. He has also worked at Samsung as a System Integration Engineer, where he provided advanced system-level technical support and troubleshooting Samsung eNodeB LTE HW/SW