Datacenter architecture & migration
I can plan and lead a datacenter move—from rack elevations, cabling and power distribution to airflow, client onboarding and service validation.
Ronit Shakya — I KEEP ITTOGETHER.
01 / CONNECTTHE EDGE.BGP · NPIX · Multi-ISP
Hi, human. Move your cursor.
02 / KEEP GOINGTHE CLOUD.vSphere · Huawei DCS · DR
ENGINEERED TO STAY CONNECTED
Serious systems.
A curious mind.
A curious mind.
Networks. Private clouds. People.
I bring the pieces together so business keeps moving.
A little network playground. No real traffic, just good connections.
DATACENTER ✳ NETWORKS ✳ PRIVATE CLOUD ✳ SECURITY ✳ PEOPLE ✳
THE SCOPE
Current role · Silver Lining
120+
Physical enterprise servers
30+
Enterprise clients supported
20+
Technical team members
99.9%
Uptime SLA commitment
01 / MY KIND OF PROBLEM
ALL THE PIECES.
ONE BIG PICTURE.
I work across the physical, virtual and operational layers of infrastructure—connecting technical decisions to business continuity.
Resilient network engineering
I can design redundant edge networks, configure iBGP/eBGP, integrate NPIX and upstream transit, and troubleshoot complex routing and connectivity issues.
Private cloud & business continuity
I can operate physical server fleets, manage VMware and Huawei DCS environments, plan capacity, and build replication and failover into recovery operations.
Security, observability & leadership
I can harden the perimeter, bring visibility to infrastructure, lead 24/7 NOC operations, and translate ISO requirements into everyday operating practices.
02 / SELECTED WORK
LESS THEORY.
MORE DOING.
A selection of initiatives from my work at Silver Lining. Technical descriptions are deliberately high-level to respect client confidentiality.
FACILITY TRANSFORMATION / 01
8+external client rack migrations
alongside primary DC relocation
alongside primary DC relocation
DATACENTER / MIGRATION / OPERATIONS
A new home for
mission-critical workloads.
Led the relocation and consolidation of the primary datacenter, alongside physical and logical onboarding of external enterprise client racks.
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The challenge
Bring facility engineering, enterprise workloads and client rack migrations together while protecting business continuity.
My contribution
Directed rack elevation planning, structured cabling, power distribution, cooling and airflow design, migration coordination, and post-migration stability checks.
Reported outcome
Primary facility relocated and 8+ external client rack migrations completed with zero business disruption.
NETWORK RESILIENCE / 02
BGP / REDUNDANCY / PEERING
More than one path forward.
Designed and administered dual-router edge routing with iBGP/eBGP, NPIX peering and multiple upstream IP transit providers.
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My contribution
Worked across redundant edge routing, provider integration and network capacity planning to support fault-tolerant enterprise connectivity.
Design focus
Routing resilience, traffic distribution and reduced dependence on a single upstream path. This diagram illustrates the approach without exposing production topology.
OPERATIONAL VISIBILITY / 03
METRICSTRAFFICALERTSRCA
OBSERVABILITY / NOC / TELEMETRY
Make the invisible actionable.
Built centralized monitoring and telemetry using Zabbix, Checkmk, Grafana, InfluxDB and MikroTik NetFlow.
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My contribution
Deployed monitoring, custom SNMP profiles, traffic analytics, dashboards and automated alerting to give operations teams clearer visibility.
Operational focus
Proactive incident identification, faster investigation and practical root cause analysis across physical and virtual infrastructure. Visuals are illustrative; no live client data is shown.
THE ENGINEERING BEHIND THE UPTIME
GOOD SYSTEMS.
GREAT CHEMISTRY.
Scroll through the layers that turn infrastructure into a dependable service.
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Reliability starts
before the first boot.
Rack elevations. Structured cabling. Power distribution. Controlled airflow. The physical environment is the foundation for every workload above it.
8+external client rack migrations
alongside primary datacenter relocation
alongside primary datacenter relocation
RACK ENGINEERING / POWER / COOLING
02 / THE CONNECTIONS
Critical traffic.
More than one path.
Dual-router edge designs, iBGP/eBGP, NPIX peering and multiple upstream providers. Segmentation and Palo Alto policies protect the services behind the network.
BGPredundant edge routing
with NPIX and multi-ISP transit
with NPIX and multi-ISP transit
ROUTING / SECURITY / SEGMENTATION
03 / THE WORKLOADS
Built to run.
Prepared to recover.
VMware vSphere and Huawei DCS bring compute together. Capacity planning, HA/DRS, replication and failover support both everyday operations and recovery readiness.
120+physical enterprise servers
supporting multi-tenant private cloud
supporting multi-tenant private cloud
VSPHERE / HUAWEI DCS / RECOVERY
04 / THE PEOPLE & PRACTICE
Architecture becomes
an operating service.
Actionable telemetry, clear escalation paths and a coordinated 24/7 NOC. I connect engineering with team development, SLA ownership and ISO governance.
20+technical team members
across infrastructure and NOC operations
across infrastructure and NOC operations
OBSERVABILITY / LEADERSHIP / GOVERNANCE
SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE01 / 04
ACTIVE LAYERPhysical foundationConceptual illustration · No live client data
03 / THE JOURNEY
STARTED AT SUPPORT.
KEPT BUILDING.
From frontline support to infrastructure leadership. Progressive responsibility across engineering, operations and people.
Read the full CVSilver Lining Pvt. Ltd.
Kathmandu, Nepal · Sep 2018—PresentFEB 2025 — PRESENT CURRENT
IT Manager
Lead datacenter, cloud, security and 24/7 operations. Own technical direction, team development, vendor coordination and SLA delivery.
JUL 2023 — FEB 2025
Assistant IT Manager
Led compliance initiatives across ISO 9001, ISO 27001 and ISO 20000-1; supervised firewall operations, resource optimization and complex escalations.
JUL 2020 — JUN 2023
Sr. Network & Security Administrator
Built monitoring and telemetry, strengthened perimeter security, and managed multi-VLAN networking and secure remote connectivity.
SEP 2018 — JUN 2020
Network Administrator
Managed network operations, backups, physical server provisioning and technical escalations.
EARLIER FOUNDATIONS
Vianet Communications
Jr. Network & Systems Monitoring Executive Mar—Jul 2018
Classic Tech Pvt. Ltd.
Support Coordinator Jul 2016—Jan 2018
THE WORKBENCH
Tools I work with.
VMware vSphereHuawei DCSPalo AltoMikroTikZabbixCheckmkGrafanaInfluxDBCarbonite / DoubleTakeNetFlow
Bachelor of Information Management
KCMIT · Tribhuvan University · 2016
Continuous professional development
Cisco enterprise networking, Palo Alto architecture, VMware, security principles and ITIL v4 practices.
04 / BEYOND THE INFRASTRUCTURE
BUILD. BREAK. LEARN.
WRITE IT DOWN.
GeekNP
My technical blog, where I share practical guides on servers, networking, security and self-hosting—turning hands-on learning into useful notes for other IT professionals.
Explore GeekNPSECURITY / CLOUDFLARE
Protecting Your Admin Panel with Cloudflare Zero Trust
A guide to placing an identity check in front of an admin panel with Cloudflare Access.
SELF-HOSTING / REMOTE ACCESS
Apache Guacamole: The Self-Hosted Remote Access Gateway You’ll Actually Enjoy Using
Explore browser-based access to RDP, SSH and VNC through a self-hosted gateway using Docker.
LOCAL AI / UBUNTU
Setting up Ollama with OpenWebUI on Ubuntu for a Small Office Knowledge Base
A walkthrough of local models, a web interface and document-based questions for a small-office knowledge base.
05 / LET’S TALK INFRASTRUCTURE
GOT A TRICKY ONE?
LET’S UNTANGLE IT.
Datacenter moves, resilient connectivity, private cloud or stronger IT operations—tell me what you’re building.
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