At present heading the development and operations for Transport infrastructure and services automation in Telia group. Also leading from the front in the journey of digital transformation and driving the organizational change towards more agile and ingrained devops. Responsibilities include developing common service models, standardized APIs across multiple domains like OSS and Cloud for resource life cycle management, service fullfilment and service assurance. Scope covers both fixed and mobile services (B2C, B2B and B2O). Current key responsibilities include development of an automated service deployment solution for 5G Mobile backhaul and migration of legacy transport services to a fully automated orchestration platform.
Additional responsibilities include having the system ownership for key network infrastructure services like IP address management and Domain Name Service.

Previously Chief Architect and Expert in Multi-service Transport networks in Ericsson. Lead development of mid to long term target Transport network architectures for 5G ready networks. Responsibilities included innovations in network slicing, cross domain control and orchestration and programmability aspect for the 5G ready transport networks. The role encompassed taking up strategic customer engagements with lead tier 1 customers.
I am a Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (Emeritus), CCIE #13883 (JNCIP as well) with approximately 20 years of experience in architectures and solutions development, design and implementation for a variety of Telecom operators like Telia Company, Vodafone Global, Deutsche Telecom, Celtel Africa, Zain Africa, Etisalat UAE, Bougyues Telecom France, BSNL India, Airtel India, Warid Pakistan, Telenor Denmark, Sweden & Norway, PTC Poland, STC Saudi, Mobily Saudi, Telecom Egypt, China Mobile,E-PLUS Germany etc.