Kalyan Akula

Network Engineer with over seven years of experience supporting enterprise campus, WAN, data-center, wireless, security, and network-transformation environments. Hands-on expertise with Cisco Catalyst 9000, Cisco Catalyst Center/DNA Center, Cisco SD-Access, Cisco ISE, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, LISP, VXLAN, VRF, MPLS, and DMVPN across complex production networks. Experienced in assessing existing environments, developing target designs, executing Catalyst migrations, building SDA fabrics, optimizing network performance, and troubleshooting complex control-plane and data-plane issues.

Strong network automation background using Python, Ansible, REST APIs, templates, and configuration-validation workflows. Skilled in executing POCs and production pilots, presenting technical findings, collaborating with vendors and engineering teams, and producing detailed design and implementation documentation. Active CCNP and CCNA professional with strong customer-facing communication and hands-on enterprise networking depth.

At Comcast, my work sits at the intersection of traditional networking and modern cloud infrastructure. On any given week, I'm configuring ACI spine-leaf fabrics, managing Palo Alto and Fortinet firewall policies across multiple sites, troubleshooting BGP routing between on-prem and Azure, and writing Python scripts to automate the repetitive parts of network operations so my team can focus on problems that actually need human judgment which gave me exposure to very different network environments a large US media company scaling a hybrid cloud infrastructure, and an international financial institution with strict compliance and multi-site redundancy requirements. Both pushed me to be methodical about documentation, change management, and building things.

Lewis University, Romeoville, IL.