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Suhas Dasari

Network EngineerNew York

Suhas Dasari

  • Cisco Catalyst
  • Cisco Nexus
  • Cisco Meraki
  • Cisco ISE
  • Palo Alto
  • Aruba Orchestrator
  • SolarWinds
  • IPAM
  • EcoStruxure
  • Verkada
  • Kastle

I design, build, and operate enterprise networks — IDF/MDF buildouts, multi-site LAN refreshes, OT, and day-to-day operations across Cisco, Aruba, Palo Alto, IPAM, and building systems.

On-site · Brookfield Asset ManagementOpen to enterprise network roles anywhere in the USA and INDIA
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Darkened enterprise equipment room aisle with status LEDs on network racks

Live·Equipment room

LAN refresh in progress

Access · OT · power00:00:00 ET

Currently supporting multi-site LAN refresh and OT at Brookfield Asset Management, New York.

Focus

Built for the work inside the closet, not just the diagram.

The same shape of work as a Brookfield-style technology services network seat: plant, access, OT, and operations.

  1. 01

    Multi-site LAN refresh

    Switch upgrades, IDF and MDF buildouts, Cat5e/Cat6/Cat6a planning, BOMs, rack elevations, and rack-and-stack through cutover.

    • Catalyst 9200/9300/9500
    • IDF / MDF
    • BOM & elevations
  2. 02

    OT & physical infrastructure

    Camera network integration on Verkada, EcoStruxure plant, Kastle access, cable runbooks, UPS work, and the last mile that makes a site go live.

    • Verkada
    • EcoStruxure
    • Kastle
  3. 03

    Access control & security

    Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass, and Kastle for 802.1X, MAB, TACACS+, guest, and door access — tied to Palo Alto Panorama and site-to-site IPsec.

    • ISE
    • Palo Alto
    • Kastle
  4. 04

    Operations & documentation

    SolarWinds and IPAM, Aruba Orchestrator, MSP coordination, HLD/LLD, and the day-to-day of multi-tenant sites: voice VLANs, PoE, inventory, and site surveys.

    • SolarWinds
    • IPAM
    • Aruba Orchestrator

How a site actually goes live

LAN refresh, end to end

  1. 01

    Survey

    Closets, power, cabling, inventory

  2. 02

    Design

    BOM, elevations, HLD/LLD

  3. 03

    Build

    Rack, stack, dress, power

  4. 04

    Connect

    VLANs, ISE, voice, OT

  5. 05

    Cutover

    UAT, MSP handoff, runbooks

Engagements

Sites, closets, and the networks that hold them together.

Neat IDF/MDF cabinet with short blue, yellow, white, and green Cat6 patch cords

Live·IDF / MDF

Dressed plant · access live

Short patch · mixed colors00:00:00 ET

Jun 2026 — Present · New York, NY · On-site

Enterprise network operations, OT camera deployments, and multi-site LAN refresh across Catalyst access and core, IDF/MDF buildouts, and the physical plant that sits under them.

  • LAN refresh work on Cisco Catalyst 2960, 9200, 9300, and 9500 — IDF and MDF buildouts, Cat5e/Cat6/Cat6a, BOMs, and rack elevation plans.
  • Rack-and-stack and physical deployment for network gear and OT camera systems; cabling runbooks for camera and OT integration.
  • UPS assessments, battery replacements, and power validation; root-cause on UPS load, access control, and OT connectivity.
  • Reviewed multi-tenancy, site-to-site IPsec, and ISE/NAC policy with TACACS+; ISE onboarding and JAMF endpoint testing.
  • Voice VLAN assignment, PoE validation, and IP telephony connectivity on Cisco switches.
  • Day-to-day operations with MSPs (Xalient, Yorktel): incidents, site surveys, and hardware readiness.
  • Catalyst 9200/9300/9500
  • Cisco ISE
  • IPsec
  • OT cameras
  • UPS / power
  • JAMF
  • VoIP / PoE

Fabric

The topology I keep coming back to.

Select a node. This is the shape of the environments I operate: WAN to access, ISE and Infoblox on the side, OT in its own VLAN.

Stack

Tools I actually put hands on.

  • Cisco Catalyst 9300 / 9400 / 9500
  • Cisco Nexus 9k / 7k / 5k
  • Cisco ACI
  • Cisco Meraki MS
  • Arista spine-leaf
  • BGP · OSPF · EIGRP · MPLS
  • VLAN · VXLAN · EVPN · STP
Voice-agent console and runtime security inspection screens, with a microphone in the foreground

Research

Runtime security for a voice agent.

We built Tyler, a serverless voice assistant on API Gateway, Lambda, Amazon Bedrock (Nova Lite), and ElevenLabs, with Prisma AIRS as a real-time runtime layer scanning both user prompts and model responses. Red-team evaluation on 338 adversarial prompts: 96.4% refusal versus 92.3% baseline, 294 harmful prompts blocked, and 87% fewer expensive LLM calls.

A Practical Architecture for Securing Voice and Text-Based AI Agents Using Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS: Implementation and Evaluation

May 2026 · Co-author Susmitha Gurram · DOI 10.13140/RG.2.2.17043.23844

Read the paper

Education

  • George Mason University

    M.S. Information Systems · Fairfax, VA

  • Malla Reddy Engineering College

    B.E. Mechanical Engineering · INDIA

Certifications

  • Cisco CCNA
  • Aruba Accredited SD-WAN Professional (AASP)
  • CCNP — in progress
  • AutoCAD

Contact

Looking for the next closet, campus, or multi-site refresh.

Enterprise network engineering anywhere in the USA and INDIA — LAN/WAN operations, IDF/MDF buildouts, OT integration, and access control. Currently on-site at Brookfield.

Emailsuhas.dasari194@gmail.com
Phone+1 571 604 1711
linkedin.com/in/dasarisuhas

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