Allen Abishek
Castelldefels
Summary
- Currently working as a Researcher in CTTC in SDN/NFV Network Service Orchestration and Automation.
- Passionate about developing novel technologies, architectures (including Network Digital Twins) in AI-enabled Network Services for End-to-End communications of Telecommunications systems for Automated Network Operations, Configurations, optimization.
- Interested in developing smart network services in telco-cloud architecture.
- Interested in developing Closed Loop Automation platform computer architectures with AI Operations and integrate Network Digital Twins to optimize AI-enabled Network Operations before deploying policies on actual network.
- Interested in exploring convergence of Closed Loop Automation with Zero Touch Network and Service Management to enhance performance of Autonomous Networks.
- Deeply passionate about Communication Networks and Distributed Computing Systems (like developing a distributed security application for network monitoring, anomaly detection, attack mitigation, etc..)
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Researcher
Centre Technologic de Telecommunicacions de Catalunya
02.2024 - Current
- Working on the development of an AI-enabled Closed Loop Automation Platform for network orchestration of security policies and services.
- Developed a software component called 'Traffic-Sniffer' to analyze network traffic and provide contextual information.
- Worked with Teraflow SDN Controller (TFS) in order to automate the enforcement of security policies into network topology.
- Hands-on experience in troubleshooting and fixing errors of microservices (e.g: NBI) in the TFS controller. Performed Github changes to fix bugs and errors of TFS controller.
- Working on the development of a secure, automated, zero-touch system for secure communication between the physical network and the network digital twin.
- working on open-source contributions for the libraries of network emulation tools optical mininet and containerlab libraries for secure connectivity services.
- Published 2 conference papers.
Private 5G and Network Engineer
Netcon Technologies
06.2022 - 12.2023
- Use Cisco DNAC for Automation, remote management, monitoring, centralized access, operations of Underlay/legacy networks
- Practice with Cisco SD-WAN on dcloud, hands-on experience in vManage, vBond
- Create DTLS connection, deploy vSmart Controller, Onboard LAN sites via vEdge Router
- Troubleshooting of cisco devices such as switches, router, firewall, end devices, vlans, etc in the Enterprise Network
- Working on development of Private 5G Minimum Viable Product for Industry 4.0
- Worked on development of cloud native automated private 5G virtualized infrastructure using open-source gNB and Core network software stack and integrating open-source network orchestrator ETSI-MANO in the AWS cloud, onboarded OAI-CN to ETSI OSM.
Applications Engineer
Semtech Canada Corp
Burlington
07.2021 - 09.2021
- Conducted VCSEL characterization using dangling fibers, and OBR analysis of modules using back-scatter analysis, etc
- Worked on development of firmware for Photonic IC using Embedded C programming for Linux Environment
- Coordinated shipping of Photonic ICs between Semtech Canada and Semtech UK
Education
Ph.D. - Computer Architecture
Universitat Polytecnica De Catalunya
Vilanova I La Geltru06-2028
Advanced Post-Graduate Program - 5G Technologies with Cloud and AI
Indian Institute of Science
02.2024
Advanced Certification Program - Cloud Computing and Devops
Indian Institute of Technology
05.2023
Master of Engineering - Engineering Physics
McMaster University
Hamilton, Canada01.2021
Bachelor of Science - Physics (Honors)
University of Windsor
Windsor, Canada01.2018
Skills
- Enterprise Networking
- Software Defined Networking - TFS, RYU, Cisco DNAC, Cisco Meraki
- Worked on building a cloud native SDN controller called Chiefnet
- Worked on building a firewall microservice using open-source firewall software 'opn-sense' for the SDN controller
- Worked on Load-Balancing of microservices in kubernetes cluster/SDN Controller
- Automated Network Service Orchestration
- Deployment of 5G network on AWS
- OAI, Open5GS, UERANSIM
- OSM (automated instantiation of network services)
- Network Automation using Python (Netmiko and Paramiko libraries)
- Ansible Playbook
- Loosely Coupled Micro-service architectures
- Cloud, Devops Tools (docker, kubernetes, jenkins, ansible, terraform, chef)
- API Development (Flask Framework, Bottle, gRPC) for communication services
- Distributed Computing
- Cloud Networking
PROJECTS
- Working on creating a secure environement called IDS for secure communication between components (SDN controller, Network Digital Twin, Cloud, etc..) in the data space, thus ensuring privacy and security of user plane data.
- Perform system integration of a 5G system using open-source OAI software stack and create a cloud native architecture around it in AWS.
- Working on developing automation of adding End-users to 5GS using Ansible and Jenkins and automated deployment (build and release) of Private 5G network infrastructure using Jenkins and terraform.
- Developed a Closed Loop Automation Platform integrated with UPF component to enhance security by automatic malicious packets detection and automated enforcement of security policies to mitigate attacks on the Core Network.
- Working on 5G-Unico Project 5G-Across and 6G-Success, 6G-Cobalt.
RESEARCH PUBLICATIONS
- Network Extensions to support Robust, Secured and Efficient connectivity services for V2X scenario.
- Applying Digital Twins to Optical Networks with Cloud-Native SDN controllers and Generative AI.
- Working on the paper 'Optical Network Digital Twins with Trusted Information Exchange'
- Working on the paper 'Closed Loop Automation Platform for Intelligent Network Security Operations'
Certification
- AWS Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Cisco: CCNA
- Udemy: Digital Signal Processing using Python, 5G Technologies: Architecture and Protocols, 5G Wireless Technology.
- MATLAB: Wireless Communications On Ramp
- Telecoma Global: 5G RAN Hardware and Implementation.
Affiliations
- Attended ETSI TFS Hackfest #3
- Participated in OSM Training Seminar hosted by IMDEA Networks Institute
- Will attend the ETSI sns4sns conference and hackfest in TFS, Openslice and OpenCAPIF.
- Volunteered in Network of the Future Conference hosted by CTTC in October 2024.
- Volunteered in 5G Unico Teleco-Renta booth at the Mobile World Congress in Fira Gran Via in February 2024.
Volunteer Experience
- Participated numerous times in 'Serve the Streets', a charity organized by the Catholic Students Association in Windsor., 01/01/16, 04/01/18
- Worked as part of the Physics Club as Treasurer and helped in budgeting activities and expenditures of the Physics Club at the University of Windsor., 09/01/17, 04/01/18
Timeline
Researcher
Centre Technologic de Telecommunicacions de Catalunya
02.2024 - Current
Private 5G and Network Engineer
Netcon Technologies
06.2022 - 12.2023
Applications Engineer
Semtech Canada Corp
07.2021 - 09.2021
- AWS Certifications: AWS Cloud Practitioner
- Cisco: CCNA
- Udemy: Digital Signal Processing using Python, 5G Technologies: Architecture and Protocols, 5G Wireless Technology.
- MATLAB: Wireless Communications On Ramp
- Telecoma Global: 5G RAN Hardware and Implementation.
Ph.D. - Computer Architecture
Universitat Polytecnica De Catalunya
Advanced Post-Graduate Program - 5G Technologies with Cloud and AI
Indian Institute of Science
Advanced Certification Program - Cloud Computing and Devops
Indian Institute of Technology
Master of Engineering - Engineering Physics
McMaster University
Bachelor of Science - Physics (Honors)
University of Windsor
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