I spent most of my career being the person a bank calls when a hundred thousand devices need to connect securely across thirty countries — and nothing is allowed to break.

At JPMorgan Chase I owned global wireless architecture and engineering: a 48-node Cisco ISE ecosystem authenticating 100,000+ devices, zero-trust access modernization deployed as the firm-wide reference architecture, and the automation framework that took manual provisioning effort down by more than half.

At Wells Fargo I lead an AI-enabled infrastructure and solutioning team. We built a RAG-based incident resolution platform across 10,000+ endpoints, a three-tier AI operations model, and the governance framework — human-in-the-loop checkpoints, traceability, data-sensitivity handling — that let all of it pass regulatory muster.

The through-line is the same as it always was: make critical infrastructure boring, predictable, and fast to recover. AI just changed the tooling.

Zero-Trust Guest Wi-Fi with Entra ID & CWA on Cisco ISE

Re-architected guest wireless as a zero-trust service: Central Web Authentication on Cisco ISE federated to Microsoft Entra ID for identity. Visitors sign in once with their own corporate credentials and are placed onto a policy-segmented network — no shared passwords, no captive-portal friction.

The result is seamless, secure authentication with fast cross-site roaming and a markedly better connectivity experience — driving a high adoption rate and a guest journey senior management recognised as a benchmark.

Self-Healing Network with Security-Drift Automation

Building a self-healing network that continuously watches for deviation from an approved security baseline. Agents detect configuration and security drift automatically, correlate it against policy, and propose the corrective action — closing the gap between “something changed” and “it’s back in compliance.”

Critically, a human stays in the loop: agents prepare and stage the remediation, but an engineer authorises execution — keeping autonomous operations auditable and safe inside a regulated environment.

Wells Fargo

JPMorgan Chase

Enterprise network engineering

Network AI, explained with generative video.

Siddhardha is a very talented, quick learner and his problem-solving approach is commendable. His expertise spans next-generation network architecture, complex security frameworks, and advanced deployments, making him a trusted advisor for strategic growth and transformation. His thought leadership on integrating cutting-edge technologies and predictive network analytics has set industry benchmarks for modern IT operations.

I have had the privilege of collaborating closely with Siddhardha at Wells Fargo, AT&T and Tech Mahindra, and I am consistently impressed by his deep expertise and passion in infra-automation and artificial intelligence. He demonstrates exceptional technical skills combined with a strategic vision that drives innovative solutions. His ability to architect and implement complex automation frameworks has significantly improved operational efficiencies and accelerated the digital transformation initiatives we worked on together.

Siddhardha is very detail-oriented and consistently produced great results for the company. He brings rigour and clarity to complex infrastructure problems and is a dependable partner on any engineering initiative.