Amit Dadlani

Serve as senior escalation lead for complex production incidents, driving root-cause investigation and systemic fixes while maintaining 99.99% uptime. Worked with SONiC-based hosts and contributed to GPU/HPC networking for AI workloads.

Built and led a team of 15 network and software engineers across North America and EMEA, covering Dropbox's Production and Corporate network environments. Established operational governance including KPIs, SLAs, and Ansible automation playbooks.

Built and led a network engineering team supporting Dropbox's backbone and data center initiatives, owning hiring, performance management, and day-to-day work direction.

Served as global backbone capacity lead engineer, developing standardized network deployment processes. Partnered with optical networking team to transition to self-built global optical network and led deployment of Classic and Express Backbone.

Served as trusted technical advisor and senior escalation point for enterprise and financial services clients, handling customer-facing debugging and mission-critical troubleshooting. Designed and deployed MP-BGP EVPN/VXLAN overlay fabrics.

Led Level 3 network operations and automation initiatives for global production infrastructure, including firewall operations, load balancer management, and wireless access point deployment.

Led NPI qualification and EDVT/MDVT/ODVT testing for ASR9000/CRS carrier-class routing platforms, including optics qualification and Layer 1-3 troubleshooting. Automated test scripting cut manual effort by 70%.

Led enterprise network deployment and testing strategy across Cisco, Juniper, and Arista platforms, and managed an offshore engineering team.

Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from the University of Rajasthan.

Master of Science in Telecommunications and Computer Networking from Rochester Institute of Technology.