Varun Khanna

Engineering Manager at Red Hat with 16+ years of work experience including several lead roles. Team player actively seeking to share expertise to help others gain skills in an unfamiliar technology. Worked in several areas including CNF, NFV, SDN, Telco space, OpenShift, OpenStack, VMware datacenter, integration, solution development & testing, and technical support. Quick learner, highly skilled in cloud technologies, building, integrating and testing of high complexity end-to-end solutions that include both virtual and physical components, within service providers and enterprise domains. Experienced with customer demos, POCs, providing training/support to partners or customers or to internal teams and documenting solution guides and tech papers. Skills summary: - Cloud and Virtualization: OpenShift, OpenStack, Kubevirt, Ansible, KVM, VMware, Ceph, NFV, CNF, SDN, SRIOV, DPDK, PCI passthrough, node tuning, NUMA alignment, EPA, OVS, GRE, VXLAN, VLAN, DVR, OVN - Programming/OS: Python, bash, unix, linux, MAC, windows - Mobility (3GPP): 5G, 4G, 3G - Wireless (Wi-Fi): ePDG, WLAN, BYOD, MDM - VoLTE/IMS: I/P/S-CSCF, E-CSCF, ABG, SBC, TAS, RCS, RMS/SMS, MRF, MGW - Networking: Linux bridging, bonding, OVS, ARP, STP/ RSTP, SPAN/RSPAN, data/voice VLANs, VTP, port channel, LACP, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP, BGP, HSRP, MPLS, IPv6, firewall, access-lists, NAT, DSN64, NAT64, VPN, PPPoE, AAA, ACS, filtering, inspection, QoS - Devices: Cisco UCS platform, Dell servers and switches, HPE servers, EMC/NetApp storage, Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Nexus switches, Cisco firewalls, Cisco prime access registrar (CPAR), Cisco packet core, Cisco Policy Suite (CPS), Cisco prime network registrar (CPNR), Cisco call manager, Juniper switches and firewall, IXIA, Spirent, wireshark, tcpdump