Ajay Lotan Thakur's Resume

Ajay Lotan Thakur

Cloud Software Architect / Cloud Software Engineering Manager

Male

Architect

Live in Canada

Nationality India

Summary

Certifications： Public Cloud：AWS Solutions Architect Associate (SAA), AWS Certified Developer Associate (CDA), AWS AI Practitioner, AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate, GCP Cloud digital Leader. Container Orchestration: Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD). Skills: Leadership: cross-functional, Collaboration, problem solving, competative analysis, communication skills. Programming Language & Environment: Linux/Unix, Go, C, C++, Python. Container Technologies & Cloud : Docker, Dockerfile, Kubernetes ( K8s ), Cloud Computing, Cloud Technology, containerization, AWS, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, container, Helm Charts, Managed Kubernetes ( e.g. AWS EKS). DevOps, Source Versioning : CI/CD, Jenkins, Github Actions (GHA), GitHub, git, Open Source development, Development Operations (DevOps), SDLC. Networking : TCP/IP, UDP, SCTP, ICMP, 4G, 5G, Network Security, Load Balancer, ARP, DNS, DHCP, IP Routing, IP Forwarding, 4G/5G User Plane Function(UPF), NAT, DoS, Firewall. Distributed Systems: System Design, Data Structures & Algorithms, Database, Redis, MongoDB, Prometheus, Grafana, Apache Kafka, REST APIs, caching, distributed systems, grpc, NoSQL, design patterns, Machine Learning, AI/ML. Career Highlights: Honored with Intel’s “Individual Achievement Award” and multiple “Divisional Recognition Awards” for successful delivery of multiple releases of Intel's Open Edge Platform. Active Maintainer of Intel’s Open Edge Platform & Linux Foundation’s Private 5G project (Aether). Delivered multiple webinars, technical articles, and presentations to advocate for open-source adoption and community engagement.

Work experience

Cloud Software Architect
Intel Corporation（Cananda）
2022.12-Current
(3 years)
Leading the development of a cloud-native, multi-tenant Application Orchestration layer for Intel’s Open Edge Platform, deployed across AWS and on-prem environments. Designed and implemented application orchestration capabilities to manage the lifecycle of containerized and VM-based workloads, integrating infrastructure services like Harbor for Helm chart and container image storage. Enabled advanced Kubernetes cluster functionality through support for GPU, USB, and load balancer extensions. Successful Orchestration & Integration of 10+ Generative AI (Gen-AI) and Vision AI Applications on the Open Edge Platform using Application Orchestration's single touch installation. Led end-to-end software integration and secure delivery processes for the Open Edge Platform, ensuring reliable deployment across diverse environments. Acted as the primary point of contact for customer-facing teams, delivering hands-on support and debugging to resolve technical issues efficiently. Represented the team in leadership and program-level meetings, collaborating with product management to shape and drive the roadmap for Application Orchestration.
Cloud Software Architect
Intel Corporation （USA）
2022.04-2022.12
(9 months)
Leading the development of a cloud-native, multi-tenant Application Orchestration layer for Intel’s Open Edge Platform, deployed across AWS and on-prem environments. Integration of Open Source 5G (SD-Core) on Open Edge Platform.
Software Director
Open Networking Foundation (ONF)
2019.09-2022.12
(3 years)
Led the development of cloud-native 4G/5G core network User Plane & Control Plane network functions (e.g. SMF, AMF, UPF, and MME) for ONF’s Kubernetes-based Private 5G platform and development of SCTP load balancer. Designed a unified configuration and metrics interface to enhance observability and operational efficiency (gRPC, RESTApi and Kafka, Prometheus, Grafana). Implemented closed-loop control by integrating DoS detection within the User Plane Function (UPF), enabling automated barring of rogue users to enhance 5G network security and reliability. Integrated an OpenVINO-based vision AI application into the 5G Core to enable closed-loop control and dynamic QoS adjustments, improving overall network efficiency. Deployed and maintained Private 5G networks across 5+ sites using CI/CD pipelines. Central control planed deployed on Google Cloud Platform. The control plane and optionally the user plane were deployed on public cloud platforms such as Google Cloud and AWS. This work was a key contribution to the successful delivery of a $30 million DARPA-funded initiative.
Consulting Software Engineer
Affirmed Networks（India）
2016.10-2019.07
(3 years)
Delivered cloud-native 4G/5G solutions, including NB-IoT gateway and stateless 5G microservices, with a focus on Redis database orchestration for scalable session and state management. Designed & implementation of stateless SCEF for SoftBank, enabling secure API exposure. Worked across C++, Python, Kubernetes, and containerized platforms.
Technical Leader
Cisco
2009.01-2016.10
(8 years)
Led development of core EPC components for the ASR5G platform, including GTPv2, SGW, PGW, MME, Demuxmgr and GTPU. Supported Tier 1 operators globally in 4G deployments with live debugging and integration. Contributed to performance optimization and authored Statements of Compliance (SOC) to ensure standards alignment and delivery readiness.
Software Engineer
NetDevices India Private Limited
2004.07-2007.08
(3 years)
Developed Unitcast & multicast routing protocol stack (OSPF, BGP, RIP, Static Routing, PIM). Security features development - NAT, ALG, DoS, Firewall. Infrastructure modules development - routing manager, ipc stack.

Educational experience

Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Master of Telecommunications Engineering
2002.07-2004.06
(2 years)
Savitribai Phule Pune University
Bachelor of Electronics and Telecommunication
1998.08-2002.06
(4 years)

Languages

English

Proficient

Certificates

Docker Essential Training: 4 Storage and Volumes Network Virtualization: SDN Overlay Solutions C++: Move Semantics Docker Essential Training: 5 Networking Learning Go

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