Samundra Raj Bajracharya
Email
[email protected]
Phone
9849674794
Location
Patan, Lalitpur, Nepal
https://samundrarajbajracharya.com.np
LinkedIn
linkedin.com/in/samundra-raj-bajracharya
Profile

I am an experienced IT professional with 6+ years in IT infrastructure, system administration, and DevOps. With a strong background in virtualization, cloud automation, and enterprise security, I specialize in designing, optimizing, and securing infrastructure for high availability and performance. My expertise includes managing large-scale virtualized environments, automating workflows using Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD pipelines, and implementing security measures such as SIEM and email security solutions. Passionate about solving complex technical challenges, I thrive in fast-paced environments where innovation and efficiency drive operational excellence.

Education
Masters in Information Technology, Patan Multiple Campus
2023 – present | Nepal
Bachelors in Science Computer Science and Information Technology, Academia International College
2014 – 2019
HSEB(+2), United Academy
2011 – 2013
SLC, Omega International School
2010
Professional Experience
Datahub Nepal, Sr. IT Officer
Mar 2025 – present

System Administration and Research & Development

Accessworld Tech Pvt. Ltd., Team Lead - Technical Support and R&D
Nov 2023 – Feb 2025

Technical Support

  • •Manage support pipeline and escalation to maintain SLA
  • •Supervise and train support staff
  • •Technical support for customers and internal systems

    • Research and Development

  • •Responsible for developing new tools and implementation required for organization or customers
  • •Integration between system and development teams
  • •Primarily worked on Self-managed Virtualization Platform similar to how Linode or Digital Ocean provide services integrated with VMware, Proxmox, XCP-ng
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    Accessworld Tech Pvt. Ltd., System and Security Administrator
    Aug 2021 – Nov 2023

    Cloud

  • •Provisioning, configuring and troubleshooting our cloud infrastructure
  • •Manage virtualization technology
  • •Manage backups and HA and related infrastructure

    • System Administration

  • •Manage and maintain all internal systems (DNS, Email, Ticketing, Monitoring, Web Hosting, VPS)
  • •Provide support to customers regarding Linux or Windows Server Administration

    • Enterprise Secure Email

  • •Maintain our secure email infrastructure
  • •Manage email servers and secure mail gateways
  • •Manage multiple customers and internal email services hosted across multiple platforms - Zimbra, cPanel, Axigen, etc

    • SIEM

  • •Monitoring, analyzing and reporting using SIEM tools for financial organizations and internal infrastructure
  • •Maintain SIEM infrastructure- McAfee ESM

    • Infrastructure

  • •Maintain datacenter infrastructure
  • •Provision, configure and troubleshoot servers, storage servers and necessary systems - HP, Dell, Cisco, IBM

    • Domain, DNS and SSL

  • •Manage DNS servers, records and all related systems
  • •All process related to issuing and installing SSL certificates
  • •Domain registration and managing required records for hosting, mail transfer and additional verification
    • Accessworld Tech Pvt. Ltd., NOC Support Engineer
    Jan 2019 – Aug 2021
  • •L1 Support
  • •Datacenter monitoring and reporting
  • •Datacenter Operations
  • •Network and System troubleshooting
    • Mentor Institute of Technologies, Instructor and Developer
    Feb 2018 – Jul 2022

    Instructor

  • •Graphics Designing- Branding and Brand development
  • •Web technologies
  • •PHP and Laravel

    • Developer

  • •Undertook multiple website development projects
  • •Created our own Online Learning Portal - eKuthi with self hosted Video sharing
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    ABGroup Pvt. Ltd., Web Developer and Graphics Designer
    Jun 2017 – Nov 2017
  • •Graphics designing and branding (Logos and other assets)
  • •Create mockups of websites
  • •Front end web development
    • Chromatic Games (Formerly Trendy Entertainment), Quality Assurance (Remote)
    Feb 2016 – Sep 2018
  • •Testing daily development builds
  • •Bug reporting and creating reports
    • Skills
    Programming Languages — PHP | Python | Bash | Powershell
    Virtualization — VMware | Proxmox | XCP-ng | Citrix Xen
    System Administration — Linux (Ubuntu, Centos, RHEL, Debian) | Windows Server | Email Servers (Axigen, Zimbra, Mailcow) | DNS Servers (bind, unbound, pihole, ADDS) | Monitoring Systems (cacti, nagios, LibreNMS, TiG, etc) | Web Hosting (ISPconfig, cPanel, HestiaCP, LAMP Stack, nodejs, MERN, nginx, IIS) | Ticketing Systems (Request Tracker, OSTicket) | Gitlab (Self Hosted Gitlab instances) | In-house systems hosted across multiple platforms | Communication platforms (Mattermost, Matrix) | Database Servers (mysql, mssql)
    DevOps — Docker and Containerization | Kubernetes | Gitlab CI/CD | Jenkins | Ansible | IaC (Terraform and OpenTofu) | Automating processes using Python and Bash
    Other Skills — Adobe Photoshop | Adobe Illustrator | Figma | InVision | Opensense as WAF and Load Balancer | Programming Languages: Angular, React, Ionic, C#, C
    Activities and Certifications
    Network Engineer, Aptech Computer Education Pvt. Ltd.
    2013

    Completed Network Engineer course from Aptech Computer Education Pvt. Ltd. with Windows Server 2003.

    Microsoft Student Partner, Microsoft Innovation Center
    2014 – 2015

    Selected as a Microsoft student partner for the year from my college. Spent a year at Microsoft Innovation Center, Nepal learning about new technologies and many other skills.

    Microsoft Certified Professional, MCP-ITP
    2015

    Certified as a Microsoft Technology Associate for Windows Operating System Fundaments.

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    NPNOG-5, Network Monitoring, Management and Automation
    2019

    Attended a 5-day workshop on Network Monitoring, Management and Automation. Topics included different Network Monitoring tools as well as use of Automation of technologies for large scale deployments.

    cPanel Professional Certification
    2019

    Completed CPSP and CPP certification for cPanel/WHM

    McAfee Certified Product Specialist, SIEM/ ESM
    2021

    Completed McAfee ESM Essentials Exam, Accreditation Exam and Certified Product Specialist for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

    Oracle Certified Foundations Associate, OCI Foundations Associate
    2022
    SANOG-38/NPNOG-6, Network Automation
    2022

    Attended a 4-day workshop on Network Automation. Topics included docker container, ansible with Gitlab CI-CD for automatic response to network events and provisioning devices automatically.

    VMXP- Xaas Professional, Veeam Software
    2022
    Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 1: Certified Associate, Fortinet
    2023
    Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 2: Certified Associate, Fortinet
    2023
    Fortinet Network Security Expert Level 3: Certified Associate, Fortinet
    2023
    Cloud Tech Fundamentals, Acronis
    2023
    Certified Associate on Stellar Cyber for SOC Analysts, Stellar Cyber
    2023
    Axigen Certified Engineer, Axigen Messaging
    2023
    Projects
    Aama, Final Year Project
    2018

    Mobile/ Web Application built in Angular and Ionic framework for health tracking during pregnancy.

    PAC Controller
    2021

    Created a system to control PAC(Precision Air Conditioning) in Datacenter environment based on current temperature. API built in Laravel and relays controlled using an Arduino with temperature and humidity sensors.

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    Network Traffic Analyzer
    2021

    Application built using nfdump and laravel framework to analyze netflow traffic to determine daily network bandwidth usage per IP.

    Mail Flow Tracker
    2023

    Built a system using bash and python to analyze mail server logs to determine if any email account has been compromised and tracking mail count per sender to maintain good sender reputation. Works with zimbra and axigen mail services.

    VPS Automation
    2023

    Python-based API (FastAPI, Terraform, Ansible) for automated VPS provisioning compatible with VMware and Proxmox

    Homelab
    2023 – present

    Running a homelab setup with following features all running as docker containers:

  • •Accessible from anywhere with Zero Trust using Tailscale
  • •Some services exposed to internet using Cloudflare Tunnel (Zero Trust)
  • •Fileserver using Nextcloud
  • •Gameserver for multiple games using Pufferpanel and playit.gg
  • •Self hosted Deepseek R1 using Ollama and Open-webui
  • •piHole as a DNS sink and ad blocker in home network
  • •Jellyfin media server, etc
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