Ronal Kumar

Senior Network Engineer

Ron@lbl.gov

Phone: (510) 495-2299

Fax: (510) 486-6459

1 Cyclotron Road

Mailstop: 59-4010A

Berkeley, CA 94720 us

Originally from the Fiji Islands, Ronal has over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He began his career as a C++ and Python programmer, developing and enhancing applications, and managing Red Hat-based high-traffic web infrastructure. At the Fiji government’s Department of Information Technology and Computing Services, Ronal advanced to systems and network engineering, contributing to the design and implementation of, the first tier 3 data center, the e-Government portal infrastructure for core e-Applications and critical network infrastructure enhancements.

As a senior network engineer with the Bank of South Pacific, Ronal managed the design and implementation of large-scale projects’ networking milestones such as data center redesign, credit card schemes, MPLS and VPLS network, internet and SMS banking, VoIP, and secure internet-based banking terminals, to name a few.

In New Zealand, Ronal worked on significant governmental, ISP, telecom, retail, and financial sector projects, enhancing complex multi-platform infrastructures. He then transitioned to a large-scale hospital organization in Northern California with an A+ Moody’s rating, where he served as a senior enterprise network engineer. He was responsible for data center network redesigns and migrations, multi-pod SDN implementations with IPN, and critical infrastructure projects over 350 sites across the U.S.

Joining the Network Team at NERSC in 2020 during Perlmutter’s deployment, Ronal contributed to the SC community by helping deploy the first standards-based data center SDN fabric at a multi-terabit scale. Currently, he is part of the team focusing on the technology integration of network and edge and system architecture in the NERSC N10 supercomputing system.

Credentials

Ronal holds expert certifications in ITIL, NSA 4013, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, Arista, and Splunk, to name a few, and is pursuing a PhD in computer science, researching open standards data center network fabric for dynamic workflows with consensus-as-a-service.