sachinraja - Rajagopal Sivaramakrishnan, India

BACKGROUND
During his networking career Rajagopal Sivaramakrishnan has worked for an Internet service provider (ISP), an outsourcing firm, and now with Wipro, a Cisco Gold Partner in India. “As a technical consultant with Wipro, I meet with the customer before implementation to fully understand their needs for switching, security, IP telephony, wireless, and routing, and make recommendations,” he says. “It’s a pre-sales function.”



Q. How long have you been in the networking industry and why did you get involved in it?
A. I’ve been in the networking industry for nearly six years. It’s funny, but I had no intentions of working in networking when I graduated college. At that time, software was the hot industry. Fortunately, after college I got an offer from Sify Limited (Chennai), the largest Indian ISP, to work as a network engineer. Accepting the job was the best decision I ever made. If I’d stayed in software, right now I would be doing coding, which is not nearly as exciting.

I worked with Sify for two-and-one-half years. I was fortunate to begin my career working with one of the most complicated, largest networks in India because it gave me such good experience and exposure to such a variety of technologies: WANs, LANs, firewalls, IP telephony, wireless, and caching, to name a few. SIFY was the first company in India to implement MPLS, and I was part of that team.

While at Sify I studied for my CCIE® in Routing and Switching. I didn’t pass the first time but never gave up. The happiest moment of my life came when I completed my CCIE in February 2004. I have to thank NetPro, because the answers in the forum helped me prepare.

Due to personal reasons I had to leave Sify, and so I looked for a job that would give me more technical exposure. Just four days after I passed my CCIE exam I got an offer from Kuwaiti Danish Computer Company (KDCC), a Cisco Certified Silver Partner. A few days after that I landed in Kuwait to manage a project for the Central Bank of Kuwait. Working for a bank network gives you great experience in routing, switching, and security. My favorite project with KDCC was a security consulting and implementation project involving SSL VPN, which was new at the time, as well as intrusion detection and intrusion prevention systems.

Around six months ago I joined Wipro, and am currently providing consulting services for large companies in southern India. If you’re an Indian company interested in expanding your network, identifying and correcting flaws, or expanding to a new facility, you come to Wipro. I talk to the customer’s technical people and advise them on the design from both technical and business points of view.




Copy by shsong21(Network specialist : CCNA,CCDA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE)

A guy from India who is a network engineering genius...why am I not surprised?

It'd be great to work along side of him, though; could learn a lot.

If only I could pronounce is name! "Excuse me, Mr. ...S-Siv-Sivar-a-mak..."

I will call this way ;
"Hey~~~~ man ? "
"What are you doing now ? "

Good idea!

Yes, India is definitely on the rise when it comes to Software and Networking. I have dealt with a lot of software programmers from India. They have always been first rate! China, India, and South Korea are definitely countries to invest in for the next 30 years.

Mike

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