Omer Ansari (knail1)

Background / Bio

Omer is the Technical Director  of Cloud Engineering @ Cisco. He is responsible for Engineering at Cisco Cloud Services in support of Cisco's large scale production SaaS assets as well as key federation partners worldwide. He has overseen SDN solutions built by integrating best of breed Cisco technologies with Opensource platforms such as Openstack, next-gen XaaS revenue-generating features such as MPLS Private Link (WAN Automation), Analytics-based Load Balancer as-a-Service, VPN as-a-Service, ACI integration into Openstack, provisioned IOPS based storage to name a few. In his spare time, Omer loves to swim. 

Areas of expertise

• • Extensive SP grade Cloud Data Center design and engineering
  • Consulting experience around DC networking design and operations with many SP and ENT
  • Engineering leadership focus on end to end Data Center technologies (Compute, Storage, Network, Network Services (LBaaS, VPNaaS), Firewalls and security
  • Data Analytics – for self healing, optimization, operational insights in DCs

Events 

• • ONS July, 2016
  • ODL Sep 24, 2016