Apr 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Helped kickstart Ansible Lightspeed with wastonx code assistant initiative to infuse AI capabilities in Ansible which enabled converting natural language prompt to Ansible code. As an architect worked on designing and integrating components from Ansible developer tools and the AI service. Worked with product managers to define requirements, collaborate with team members to ensure the requirements are implementing with good quality. Collaborated with technical marketing managers to promote and evangelise it at various industry conference and events.

Aug 2018 – Mar 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Team Lead and founding member for Ansible devtools team responsible for defining the Ansible developer experience and building newer tools to enable Ansible content creators write better tool faster.
• Previously worked as Team lead for Ansible Content (Network) team and played a pivotal role in building up the network team from group up. Design and implemented multiple software features and plugins ecosystem within Ansible which is widely used by partners/community networking vendors.

May 2016 – Jul 2018 · 2 yrs 2 mos

• Worked extensively on the Network management plane on multiple network oses to enhance manageability and programmability. Good experience automating network endpoints running IOS, JUNOS, EOS, NXOS
• Good understanding of network os concepts and management technologies like Yang, Netconf, Restconf
• Developed a CPython from scratch to provide python extensions for libssh library (https://github.com/ansible/pylibssh)
• Well versed in Python and C programming languages.