About

Sandeep Surendher is a Network Software Engineer at Cisco with over 4 years of relevant experience. He specializes in Openstack VIM (OSP 13 Queens), Cisco Virtual Infrastructure Manager (CVIM 3.4.4), and has worked with VMware Vsphere VIM. Sandeep has also set up and worked with Cisco ESC (VNF Manager) and Cisco NSO (Orchestrator), and has a good understanding of 4G LTE CUPS architecture and MANO architecture. He is also Cisco security green belt certified. In terms of core networking, Sandeep is proficient in BGP, OSPF, RIP, Route Redistribution, IRB (Wireless), STP, VTP, VLAN, and WAN Design. He is well-versed in protocols such as ARP, TCP/IP, SNMP, DHCP, DNS, ACL, NAT, VLSM, HSRP, VRRP, MPLS, Tunneling, LDP, RSVP, GRE, DMVPN, IPSEC, IPv6, VRF, MetroEthernet, OpenFlow, and NETCONF. Sandeep has worked with vendors such as Cisco, Juniper, Arista, and HP. Sandeep is also skilled in programming languages such as Python and Bash, and automation tools/libraries such as Ansible, Puppet, jinja templates, Netmiko, and Boto3. He has experience working with SDN controllers such as Floodlight, OpenDaylight, Ryu, and ONOS, and networking/software tools such as GNS3, Mininet, Wireshark, VirtualBox, Scapy, Packet Tracer, Matlab, Nmap, and Tcpdump. Sandeep is proficient in Linux (CentOS) and has worked with DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, IPtables, awk, sed, grep, user; File; Directory creation and Permissions, Logical Volume Manager, Bash scripting, and Cron tab. Sandeep's past experience includes working as a Project Trainee at DRDO, where he completed a Robotics Branch project on Remote data transmission using Video Codecs, and as a CCNA R&S Trainer (Part-time) at NetworkGeek - Broadcasting Ideas. He has also interned at Indian Railways, where he developed the front-end design for their website using Java-script. Sandeep holds a Master's degree in Network Engineering (Interdisciplinary Telecom Program) from the University of Colorado Boulder, a Bachelor's