Shankar Dayal Pandey

Enthusiastic Network Engineer specializing in Cisco ACI and Arista data centre technologies,
with hands on expertise in leaf spine architectures, CVP/CVX management, and multi
vendor deployments at Vodafone Idea Limited. Proficient in implementing VXLAN, MLAG,
BGP, OSPF, and SDN solutions across enterprise networks, he excels in change management,
troubleshooting complex outages, and optimizing network performance for high availability
SLAs. Experienced in Arista CVP/CVX firmware upgrades via Cloud Vision Studios workflows,
including EOS image lifecycle management, zero downtime In Service Software Upgrades
ISSU on leaf spine fabrics, and automated validation for spines/leaves. Also skilled in Cisco
ACI firmware upgrades on CIMC, APIC clusters, and leaf/spine switches using APIC GUI/CLI,
upgrade bundles, and rollback procedures to ensure fabric stability. Currently based in Pune,
Maharashtra, he brings over 8 years of experience in telecom infrastructure, including Cisco aci