Network Engineer

Pranav Pawar

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EDUCATION:

Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX May 2024 Master of Science in Telecommunication and Network Engineering CGPA: 3.9 University of Mumbai Mumbai, India July 2022

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics and Telecommunication SKILLS:

• Networking Essentials: ARP, OSI Model, TCP/IP, UDP, Troubleshooting Network, VLAN, STP, IPv4, SSH

• Networking Services: DHCP, DNS, HTTP/HTTPS, Telnet, SSH, NAT/PAT

• Routing Protocols: OSPF, BGP

• Networking Tools: GNS3, PuTTY, Wireshark, Cisco Packet Tracer, VMWare Workstation, Oracle VM VirtualBox

• Cloud Technologies: EC2, S3, IAM, VPC, Route53, Code Commit, Code Build, Code Deploy, Code Pipeline

• Operating Systems and Languages: Cisco IOS, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat Enterprise in Linux), Python

• Troubleshooting Tools: Wireshark, iftop, iostat

• Linux Operating System: file permission, netstat, nslookup, dig, tracert, vim, ifconfig EXPERIENCE:

KGS Technology Group: Network Engineer Remote July. 25 -Present

• Designed and implemented complex network infrastructures, including Inter-VLAN routing with Layer 3 switches, OSPF troubleshooting, and BGP configurations with extended access-list filtering, ensuring optimized connectivity and routing efficiency

• Monitored and troubleshot network devices, enabling seamless communication across Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks and maintaining high-performance, secure client network environments

• Coordinated and resolved network issues across multiple teams, ensuring smooth operations, minimal downtime, and reliable service delivery for clients

Cox School of Business: Technical Support Assistant Dallas Oct. 22-May. 24

• Diagnosed and resolved software and network issues using Linux, ensuring uptime across systems

• Utilized Linux command-line tools and SSH protocols to securely access, monitor, and maintain email server operations, including transferring backups from the professor's server to the school server to ensure data integrity and redundancy

• Configured routing protocols in Linux environment, optimizing network performance and decreasing latency by 15% to improve connectivity across the organization

PROJECTS:

Advanced Network Design: Aug. 22-Dec. 22

• Created a topology of 8 routers using OSPF routing protocol to establish neighbor relationships, verified key parameters for synchronization, implemented flood reduction with the DO NOT AGE option, and configured MD5 authentication to secure communications

• Configured and verified BGP sessions by assigning foreign Loopback addresses for eBGP peering between non-directly connected neighbors; debugged IDLE states using disable-connected-check, and implemented next-hop-self to route advertisement between non-adjacent iBGP peers

• Performed configuration of advance switching concept like STP to reduce downtime by 20% on 5 Cisco switches

• Deployed switching protocols like VLAN, inter-VLAN on network segments Linux Essentials: Jan. 23-May. 23

• Built an Ansible playbook to automate configuration and management of a classroom-sized Linux-based network, ensuring consistency across devices by increasing workflow efficiency by 25%

• Configured network settings on CentOS using VirtualBox by installing a virtual NIC, including IP addressing and DNS setup, and gained hands-on experience with network troubleshooting and monitoring tools such as ping, tcpdump, netstat, and ifconfig to check the latency, delay and network unreachability

• Managed file permissions and ownership thus, ensuring the integrity of the file system Advanced Cloud Computing & DevOps using AWS: Jan. 24-May. 24

• Implemented and deployed EC2 instances based on Linux AMI, enabled security rules using IAM and security groups, establishing peer to peer connectivity in VPC as well as made the instance highly available and fault tolerant using ELB, Auto Scaling and Route53

• Developed and deployed pipeline using AWS services like Code Pipeline, Code Commit, Code Build and Code Deploy for deploying an application

TRAINING AND CERTIFICATIONS:

• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) (CSCO14271656)

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