About

Shaunak S Kumar is a highly motivated and dedicated Consulting Engineer at Cisco Professional Services with over 12 years of experience in enterprise networking. With a CCNA, CCNP, CCDA, and CCIE R&S 39951 certification, he has a great hands-on experience in various life cycles of the network, from RFP to planning, designing, implementation, and then operations post-deployment. He has a keen eye for achieving results that are aligned with business requirements and is always in search of opportunities to learn, perform, and better himself. Shaunak has industry-wide exposure as a result of the various customers he has interacted with and the roles that he has fulfilled. He is a key stakeholder in account-based activities like monthly tech workshops, business reviews with the customer's senior management team, customer advocacy, and advisory. He has great customer handling and presentation skills with eloquence and pays attention to minute details. Shaunak has experience in team building initiatives and mentoring new talent. He also has an eye for hiring the right talent and evaluating the applicants for relevancy. He specializes in enterprise networking, including BGP, OSPF, TCP/IP, Routing, Switching, Cisco SDA Solution, MPLS L3VPN, MPLS L2VPN, and SP Techs. Currently, Shaunak is working at Cisco as a Network Consulting Engineer. He provides planning, designing, implementation, operation, and optimization services to Cisco Advanced Services Customers around Cisco’s cloud solutions, thus enabling business outcomes and IT transformation. He works closely with the project manager on the engagement to ensure compliance with set processes, weekly progress and status checks, ongoing communications, and meetings with the customers. He ensures smooth closure of engagements using a relationship with the customer to guide them to the next steps and help them understand the services portfolio and value of Cisco services. Shaunak has previously worked with Cisco as a Customer Support Engineer and with Juniper Networks as a CFTS Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Panjab University.