Mastering Advanced Juniper Data Centers

Aninda Chatterjee holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Information Science. His networking career started at AT&T, troubleshooting Layer 1 circuit issues (T1/DS3 circuits--anyone remember those?), eventually transitioning to customer support at Cisco TAC, specializing in Layer 2 technologies such as spanning tree. After his stint at Cisco TAC, he has held several roles across different organizations, with functions including escalation support for enterprise and data center engineering, designing, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise and data center networks, technical marketing for Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA), and technical marketing for Juniper Networks data center business unit, while also focusing on multi-vendor interoperability in data centers.

In his current role as a principal network engineer at Nokia, Aninda specializes in the design and deployment of data center networks with EVPN VXLAN, while also focusing on the high demand of networking infrastructure for high-performance computing and AI/ML clusters. He also leads the validated designs workstream, ideating, building and testing validated designs for general-purpose data centers and AI infrastructure at Nokia.

Aninda actively writes on his personal blog, www.theasciiconstruct.com and teaches at www.networkfoundry.tech.