Mohandesi Zia Gostar

I am a passionate engineer with 9+ years of experience in the Telecom industry. I have a diverse background in the fields of datacenter networking, compute, storage, virtualization and containerization technologies. I pride myself in being current with industry trends and new methodologies to ensure my work is optimal. I approach my day with a positive attitude, perseverance and professionalism, all while being able to remain calm when faced with challenges. Experience with installation, configuration and operation of network devices such as Cisco, Arista, Juniper and Cumulus. AWS, OpenStack, KVM, VMware, Ceph, SDN Packet Acceleration SR-IOV, DPDK, VPP, NUMA, OVS Offload, SmartNICs Using as the main language for professional development. Capable of writing scalable, testable, and maintainable programs. Docker, Kubernetes (OpenShift, Rancher), Helm, Portworx Tooling Ansible, Terraform, Git, ArgoCD, Vault, Artifactory, Prometheus, Grafana, Morpheus, Ixia Equipped with Linux system administration experience including configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance. Charter Communications is a leading broadband connectivity company and cable operator serving more than 32 million customers in 41 states through its Spectrum brand. May 2022 - Present Responsibilities: Part of the Private Cloud Engineering team within the Enterprise Infrastructure Group, responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and operating virtualized and containerized telco cloud systems. Led development and implementation of Red Hat OpenShift-based platforms supporting enterprise and VNF/CNF workloads across multiple distributed data centers, including edge locations. Developed Ansible automation for bare-metal OpenShift cluster deployment, including node provisioning, day-0/day-1 configuration, operator installation, and cluster and platform upgrades. Delivered KubeVirt-based virtualization, running KVM virtual machines natively on Kubernetes alongside containerized workloads for mixed legacy