Shirish Suryawanshi

Shirish Suryawanshi has a diverse work experience spanning multiple companies. Shirish currently holds the position of Associate Director - Solutions Architecture at Robin.io, a Rakuten Symphony Company, where they specialize in Telco, Cloud, and Cloud Orchestration. In this role, they work with executive stakeholders and telecom service providers, driving customer POCs, solution designs, and technical implementations for cloud native platforms. Shirish also designs and implements cloud orchestration products for global customers.

Before joining Robin.io, Shirish worked as a Solutions Architect at Ericsson, focusing on Telco Cloud, Kubernetes, and Edge. Prior to that, they were a Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, where they dealt with Telco cloud, NFVi, and Packet Core. In this role, they played a key role in Openstack-based private cloud deployments and multi-vendor network element deployments for Telco NFV Nodes.

Earlier in their career, Shirish held the position of Senior Solution Integrator at Ericsson, where they were responsible for consulting, system integration, network planning, and troubleshooting for 2G/3G/4G networks. Shirish also gained hands-on experience with Ericsson and Juniper network elements during this time. Additionally, they worked as a Packet Core Engineer at NSN - Nokia Solutions and Networks, where they played a significant role in the launch of LTE services for Airtel and the deployment of the Circuit Core network for Uninor in Maharashtra, India.

Overall, Shirish Suryawanshi has a strong background in telecommunications, cloud computing, and network deployments.

Shirish Suryawanshi completed their Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) in Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering from Shri Guru Gobind Singhji Institute of Engineering and Technology between 2005 and 2009. Additionally, they have obtained several certifications throughout their career, including being a Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS) from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in January 2023. Shirish also holds certifications such as AWS certified Solution Architect - Associate from Amazon Web Services (AWS) in October 2020, Certified Kubernetes Administrator from CNCF in January 2020, Cisco Certified Network Professional Routing and Switching (CCNP-RS) from Cisco in November 2019, CCNA - Routing and Switching from Cisco in February 2019, RHCSA - Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 from Red Hat in June 2018, and Ericsson Certified Packet Core Expert (SGSN-MME, EPG, SAPC Professional) from Ericsson in March 2016.