Akshay Babrekar
Senior Technical Support Engineer at Palo Alto Networks
Plano, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolAkshay Babrekar is a Senior Technical Support Engineer with 8 years of hands-on experience designing, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise network architectures across routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs and load balancers. Currently at Palo Alto Networks after leading network operations and on-call support at Conduent, he brings deep expertise in BGP, OSPF, MPLS and practical experience stabilizing L3 private IP MPLS carrier networks. He combines strong troubleshooting instincts with automation skills—authoring Python scripts for device backups, subnet calculations, and firewall mapping—to accelerate incident resolution and standardize configurations. Akshay’s background includes SDN research at NJIT where he worked with OpenFlow and controller frameworks, showing an ability to bridge academic networking concepts with production systems. Comfortable in high-pressure, 24x7 environments, he regularly coordinates cross-functional teams and vendors to restore critical services quickly. Based in Plano, Texas, he prioritizes customer satisfaction and operational resilience while continuously improving tooling and processes behind the scenes.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Computer Science, High School Computer Science at Shri Shivaji Science College Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering(COMPUTER NETWORKING), Master’s Degree Electrical Engineering(COMPUTER NETWORKING) at New Jersey Institute of TechnologyEngineer’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Engineer’s Degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Thakur College Of Engineering and TechnologyHigh School Mathematics and Computer Science, High School Mathematics and Computer Science at Dnyanmata high school
English, Hindi, MarathiGithub contributions (1)
akki9892/SDN-openflow
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:44 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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