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Kushal Nepali

Kushal Nepali

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Technical Solutions Engineer at Arista Networks

  • Education

    • Gandaki Boarding School

      2007 - 2009
      SLC First

    • Tribhuvan Vishwavidalaya

      2010 - 2012
      Engineer's Degree Electronins and Telecommunication First Division

      Diploma in Engineering (I.E./Overseer)

    • Performance Education

      2020 - 2021
      Professional Year - Australian Computer Society Information Technology

      The ACS (IT) Professional Year is a Department of Home Affairs initiative which is designed for international graduates with an Australian IT degree just like you. Developed by the Australian Computer Society, the ACS Professional Year program provides IT graduates with a guided pathway from university to employment in Australia.

    • London Metropolitan University

      2013 - 2016
      Bachelor’s Degree Computer Networking and IT Securities Upper-second class honours with 63.59%

      Activities and Societies: 3 Academic Excellence Awards. I gained all of my network and server administration skills from this degree. The course also included may cyber security subjects which did hone my knowledge and skills in the field. However, I was more interested in networks which led to my final project which involved public free which could be funded by sponsors and advertisers.

    • Charles Sturt University

      2017 - 2019
      Master in Information Technology Computer Networking & Cloud Computing 5.42

      Activities and Societies: 1 Academic Achievment Awards Wrote a review based research paper on emerging technologies for IOT• Includes other interdependent technology such as 5G for URLLC• Energy saving solutions for WSN data gathering including use of mobile vehicles• Cloud platforms for analysis of massive IoT data

  • Experience

    • Doko Beats Pvt. Ltd

      Jun 2014 - Jan 2016
      Entrepreneur

      • Uncovered the entertainment industry trends and structure in Nepal• Drafted the functional and nonfunctional requirements for the web app

    • Speck Fourteen Private Limited

      Aug 2014 - Nov 2016
      Entrepreneur

      • Researched on the local bus service in Pokhara• Collated the committee on drafting a contract• Analysed, procured and deployed 20 commercial screens for advertisements inside the bus• Curated the contents and advertisement routinely

    • Pokhara Green Mart Private Limited

      Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
      Co-Founder/IT and Facilities

      • Reviewed and drafted the project proposal for waste management to the local municipality for Pokhara Green Mart

    • Nucleus Corp

      Jul 2016 - Oct 2017
      Co-Founder/ Consultant

      • Recommended the business plan for shared office space• Designed the interiors• Eliminated the office operating cost from the revenue generated

    • Whizz Works

      Aug 2016 - Jan 2017
      Studio Production Manager

      • Coordinated contracts and clients; worked on more than 10 video and music projects• Provided assistance to the production team with lighting, shooting and recording• Passed the requirements from clients to the team and kept them on track money and time wise

    • UCG - United Communication Group

      Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
      Surveyor

      • Surveyed the existing wired connection to the building for telephone and internet.• Surveyed the internal distribution of the line for different units.• Proposed a new layout for construction.• One of my major projects involved surveying the distribution network for the of city of Wagga Wagga and Goulburn.

    • Downer

      Mar 2018 - Nov 2019
      Trade Assistant

      • Surveyed the existing wired connection to the building for telephone and internet.• Surveyed the internal distribution of the line for different units.• Proposed a new layout for construction.

    • 1stGroup Ltd

      Mar 2020 - May 2020
      Customer Support Officer

      • Setup, trained and activated more than 50 Myhealth 1st accounts for practitioners.• Initiated training booking and followup via email plugin which integrated with salesforce; improved activation by 15%.• Provided training to more than 20 practitioners for new telehealth service.• Reported software issues to developers with Jira and Confluence.

    • Arista Networks

      Feb 2021 - now

      • Troubleshot and resolved network issues for customers in Data Centre and Campus & WiFi network deployments remotely either through zoom or by email, meeting service level agreements (SLAs)• Recreated multiple issues seen on customer environment in lab to better understand the issue and provide root cause analysis (RCA) and solution if not workarounds.• Provided top-level technical support for hardware troubleshooting• Provided support for Cloud Vision Portal (on-premise deployment) which includes installation, upgrades, troubleshooting and guiding customers on using CVP.• Developed expertise in a wide variety of networking technologies, including BGP, OSPF, VXLAN-EVPN, MLAG, LACP, CVP, DOT1x, AAA, DHCP, PoE etc• Actively engaged in discussions with wider TAC team regarding cases and networking technologies• Worked with the development team in Arista to identify and file bugs in Arista products and services• Provided training sessions to Arista TAC team on topics such such as Arista Cloud Vision CUE and recently released AGNI• Created multiple configuration related Knowledge Base articles related to AGNI Show less • Developed deeper understanding of protocols, topologies and troubleshooting:~Datacenter technologies (including CLoS networks, VxLAN, 2-and-3 tier architectures)~L3 protocols (including BGP and LU, OSPF, IS-IS, multicast, Segment Routing Extensions)~L2 protocols (including Spanning Tree Protocols, VLANs, LAG, MLAG) ~Industry standard ASIC architectures• Stayed on top of the Internship program and being proactive in delivering all the assignments including assigned customer issues and projects.• Worked with other interns and technical solutions engineers to troubleshoot and diagnose software defects and validate fixes to those defects.• Participated in project meetings and presenting status of projects and assignments.• Set up networking equipment in the lab to support test and recreation efforts. Show less

      • Technical Solutions Engineer

        Jul 2021 - now

      • Technical Solutions Engineer

        Feb 2021 - Jul 2021

  • Licenses & Certifications

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Discipline Support Leader

      Issued by Charles Sturt University on Jul 2019
      Charles Sturt UniversityAssociated with Kushal Nepali

    • Data Entry

      Issued by Genese Soft on Sept 2014
      Genese SoftAssociated with Kushal Nepali