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Engineers at the center. Direct involvement, real execution.

XOOPIE is an independent technology engineering company led by practitioners who stay directly involved in architecture, deployment, and ongoing client operations.

XOOPIE Systems Engineering Team
LEADERSHIP

Lalit Bhardwaj

Founder & Technology Strategist · Xoopie Innovations Pvt Ltd

Lalit leads XOOPIE with a hands-on technology strategy and infrastructure engineering approach. With over 15 years of industry experience across enterprise IT environments, campus networks, cybersecurity, and ISP routing, his focus is on understanding how an organization actually operates and translating that reality into an appropriate, resilient technical design.

Under Lalit's leadership, XOOPIE does not operate through disconnected sales layers. Every major architecture design, firewall deployment, network migration, and recovery exercise receives direct architectural review, ensuring practical execution, clear documentation, and long-term operational sustainability.

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Core Working Principles

Human judgment around technical systems.

We believe infrastructure should be understandable, documented, and recoverable. We prefer evidence over slogans:

1.Understand first: Discover the actual topology and operational pressure.
2.Design with evidence: Ground sizing in measured traffic and workloads.
3.Implement in stages: Zero disruption with proven rollback plans.
4.Document & monitor: Provide full runbooks, diagrams, and telemetry.
5.Test & improve: Conduct scheduled restore exercises and audits.
Technical Disciplines

Our Systems Engineering Practices

XOOPIE organizes delivery around 5 focused technical practices, staffed by experienced engineers who specialize in mission-critical deployments.

Compute & StorageEngineering Practice

Infrastructure & Virtualization Practice

Architecting high-availability hypervisor clusters, shared SAN storage, and predictable enterprise compute environments.

Practice Deliverables
  • Hardware sizing, cluster design & hypervisor deployment
  • Proxmox VE & VMware vSphere high-availability configuration
  • SAN / NAS storage fabrics (iSCSI, NFS, Fibre Channel)
  • Capacity planning & workload performance optimization
Common Technologies
VMware vSphereProxmox VEDell PowerEdgeHPE ProLiantTrueNASSynology Enterprise
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Defense & SegmentationEngineering Practice

Cybersecurity & Zero Trust Practice

Building defensive perimeters, strict internal micro-segmentation, and identity-driven network access control.

Practice Deliverables
  • Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) policy design & rulebase audits
  • 802.1X Dynamic VLAN Port Access Control (NAC)
  • Internal micro-segmentation stopping lateral adversary movement
  • Endpoint threat visibility & host hardening runbooks
Common Technologies
Fortinet FortiGateFortiNACFortiAnalyzerWazuh EDRMicrosoft Defender
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Routing & SwitchingEngineering Practice

Network Engineering & Connectivity Practice

Designing resilient campus backbones, multi-homed ISP connectivity, and carrier-grade routing fabrics.

Practice Deliverables
  • BGP multi-homing & automated upstream route failover
  • Spine-leaf & core/distribution campus switching architectures
  • Secure site-to-site IPsec VPNs & SD-WAN overlays
  • High-density campus Wi-Fi planning & heatmapping
Common Technologies
Cisco Catalyst / NexusFortiSwitchMikroTik RouterOSUbiquiti UniFiBGP / OSPF / VLANs
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Monitoring & TelemetryEngineering Practice

Observability & 24/7 Operations Practice

Centralizing operational logs, automated metrics collection, and continuous infrastructure health visibility.

Practice Deliverables
  • Centralized syslog & security event ingestion clusters
  • Real-time latency, link jitter & server metric dashboards
  • Automated alert escalation & threshold tuning
  • Monthly SLA reporting & operational reviews
Common Technologies
ElasticsearchLogstashKibanaWazuhPrometheusGrafanaSNMP / Syslog
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Resilience & RecoveryEngineering Practice

Backup, Storage & Disaster Recovery Practice

Guaranteeing business continuity with immutable air-gapped backups, automated recovery tests, and clean room restores.

Practice Deliverables
  • 3-2-1-1-0 immutable backup architecture design
  • Veeam Backup & Replication deployment with Linux Hardened Repositories
  • Documented Disaster Recovery (DR) runbooks with verified RPO / RTO
  • Clean-room recovery testing for ransomware recovery readiness
Common Technologies
Veeam Backup & ReplicationLinux Hardened RepositoryCloud Object StorageBare-Metal Recovery
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How We Work

Direct Engineering Involvement

When you work with XOOPIE, you communicate directly with senior practitioners who understand networks, hypervisors, and security configurations.

NO INTERMEDIARIES

Engineer-to-Engineer

You work with engineers who log into switches, write firewall policies, and configure storage arrays. Technical questions are answered with facts.

CLEAR DOCUMENTATION

Documented Handovers

Every project concludes with comprehensive architectural diagrams, IP address schemes, VLAN schedules, and step-by-step operating runbooks.

LONG-TERM PARTNER

Operational Support

We remain available for planned changes, troubleshooting, hardware upgrades, and scheduled recovery tests as your environment grows.