Rahul Kumar Singh

Summary

Senior Network Engineer at Microsoft building network automation and AI tooling for Azure ExpressRoute — the global private backbone connecting enterprises to Azure. Nearly a decade across the same product, shipping production-grade AI agents, MCP-based diagnostic tooling, and telemetry intelligence platforms that turn institutional ops knowledge into autonomous systems.

Experience

• Senior Network Engineer II — Network Automation & AI

  Jan 2026 — Present

  Microsoft · Azure ExpressRoute

  Network automation and AI engineering for Azure ExpressRoute — Microsoft's global private connectivity service linking enterprises to Azure datacenters. Continuing to ship AI-native operational tooling, autonomous diagnostic agents, and MCP-based platforms that turn 30–90 min investigations into 1–3 min.

• Senior Network Engineer / AI Platform Engineer

  Jul 2018 — Jan 2026

  LTIMindtree · Client: Microsoft Azure ExpressRoute

  Operated Microsoft's global Azure ExpressRoute WAN — hundreds of routers, BGP/routing diagnostics, MACsec, accelerated forwarding, and customer onboarding. Architected an AI-native operational intelligence platform: a 100K+ LoC full-stack system with GPT-5 + Claude Opus agents and 200+ MCP tools across 19 telemetry clusters — collapsing 30–90 min investigations into 1–3 min.

• Infrastructure Management Engineer

  Mar 2017 — Jun 2018

  LTIMindtree · Client: Microsoft

  Built monitoring and alerting automation for Microsoft infrastructure environments. Wrote PowerShell automation, ASP.NET dashboards, and operational APIs that materially reduced manual monitoring effort.

Skills

• AI & Intelligent SystemsGPT-5 · Claude Opus · MCP (Model Context Protocol) · AI Agent Architecture · Tool Routing & Execution · Prompt Engineering · RAG / Retrieval Systems · Conversational AI
• LanguagesPython · TypeScript · JavaScript · PowerShell · SQL · YAML · C++
• FrontendReact 18 · TypeScript · Chakra UI · Redux · Chart.js · XYFlow · Reaviz
• BackendFastAPI · Async Python · Pydantic · Redis · JWT Auth · Serverless Functions · Docker · REST APIs
• Network & CloudEnterprise WAN · BGP Routing · Cisco ASR · Juniper MX/PTX · MACsec · DNS · DHCP · NAT · Network Automation
• Cloud & InfraHyperscale Cloud Platforms · Cloud Identity (SSO/OIDC) · Serverless Functions · Container Registries · App Insights / Telemetry · OpenTelemetry · Docker
• Data & AnalyticsDatabase Clusters · Query Optimization · Cross-Cluster Analytics · Operational Analytics · Risk Intelligence · Redis Caching
• ToolsVS Code · Cursor · Wireshark · SecureCRT · Putty · Git · GitHub Actions

Recognition

• UNSTOPPABLE Award — Extraordinary contributions to team operations
• On the Spot Award — Operational efficiency and delivery
• Best Performer of the Year — Impactful automation initiatives

Education

B.Tech — Computer Science Engineering

Bhubaneswar Engineering College