CHRISTOPHER M. GAEWU
Accra
Summary
Network Production Engineer with 3+ years of experience operating and deploying large-scale MPLS backbone and IP core networks (1,500+ routers) in a national production environment. Strong expertise in BGP (Route Reflectors), OSPF, IS-IS, MPLS L2/L3 VPN, routing policy engineering, and traffic optimization. Experienced in incident response, root cause analysis, network monitoring, and automation using Python, Git, Linux, and infrastructure consistency practices. Passionate about building reliable, scalable, and automated network infrastructure.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
IP Datacom Engineer (Network Delivery & Maintenance)
Huawei Technologies
Accra
11.2022 - Current
- Supported and maintained MTN’s nationwide MPLS Core backbone network consisting of over 1,500 routers and 200+ IPCORE devices in a live production environment.
- Resolved 80–100 daily incident tickets related to BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS VPN, and routing policies, ensuring minimal disruption to network operations.
- Performed root cause analysis and service restoration to ensure high availability and reliability.
- Configured and maintained BGP route reflectors while validating peering for newly deployed devices to enhance network performance and reliability.
- Engineered and deployed MPLS L2 and L3 VPN services for enterprise and internet-facing connectivity.
- Implemented routing policies to optimize traffic paths based on capacity, redundancy, and availability.
- Used SolarWinds for proactive monitoring, fault detection, and performance analysis.
- Deployed Access, Aggregation, and Core routers across backbone and enterprise environments.
- Created High-Level Designs (HLDs) and Low-Level Designs (LLDs) for scalable network architecture, facilitating efficient deployment and integration of network solutions.
- Built Python automation scripts to generate configuration templates from structured LLD data, enabling bulk provisioning of 100+ devices and improving configuration consistency.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Ghana Communication Technology University
Tesano, Accra-Ghana11-2022
Skills
- MPLS
- MPLS L2/L3 VPN
- BGP (Route Reflectors)
- OSPF
- IS-IS
- Routing Policies
- Backbone & Data Center Networking
- GRE
- IP-in-IP
- TCP/IP
- VLAN
- STP
- ACLs
- ARP
- ICMP
- HTTP/HTTPS
Websites
Certification
HCIA – Routing & Switching, Huawei
Projects
- Network Automation Framework (Python), Developed automation scripts to generate router configurations from structured Excel-based LLD inputs.
- Reduced deployment time and minimized manual configuration errors across large-scale integrations. MPLS Backbone Lab (BGP + IS-IS + L3VPN), Designed and simulated an MPLS backbone with BGP route reflectors and IS-IS core routing.
- Implemented MPLS L2VPN and L3VPN services with route targets and routing policies.
- Ansible Network Automation (Lab), Developed basic Ansible playbooks to automate VLAN provisioning and BGP neighbor configuration.
- Applied inventory-based automation to enforce infrastructure consistency.
Timeline
IP Datacom Engineer (Network Delivery & Maintenance)
Huawei Technologies
11.2022 - Current
Bachelor of Science - Computer Engineering
Ghana Communication Technology University