Shashi Prakash

Software Engineer

Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India4 yrs 7 mos experience

AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

Expert in SONiC-based network infrastructure.
Developed AI-driven self-healing systems for networking.
Strong background in Linux-based network operating systems.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in AI-driven automation and system reliability.

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Skills

Core Skills

Network Infrastructure DesignSoftware InfrastructureC++BgpLinux KernelQuality Of Service (qos)EtlCloud Applications

Other Skills

Open-Source DevelopmentData Center NetworkingSoftware DesignTeam BuildingBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)Model Context Protocol (MCP)LangGraphPyEZGlobal Load Balancing (GLB)Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)UnixLangraphLarge Language Models (LLM)GenAIVirtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)

About

Software Engineer focused on platform and system software for SONiC-based network infrastructure, with prior experience building high-performance L2/L3 networking features for large-scale data center fabrics on Juniper’s EVO platform. Background spans control and data plane development, Linux-based network operating systems, hardware-software integration, and work close to Broadcom ASICs, HSDK layers, and system internals. Experience includes routing and fabric technologies such as BGP, OSPF, and EVPN-VXLAN, with a strong focus on building reliable, debuggable, and production-ready network software. Current work is centered more deeply on platform engineering in SONiC environments, including system integration, platform reliability, troubleshooting workflows, and operational tooling that improves signal during failures and reduces time to resolution. Technical interests lie at the boundary of kernel and userspace behavior, switch software architecture, platform services, observability, and health inspection. A growing area of focus is the use of AI in networking automation and triage, especially in building systems that assist with fault isolation, structured data collection, reasoning over device state, and accelerating network operations through intelligent tooling. Interested in SONiC internals, platform software, Linux networking, AI-assisted network automation, and building robust infrastructure systems for modern data center networks. Github: https://github.com/sspeedy99

Experience

4 yrs 7 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 5 mos

Average Tenure

4 mos

Current Experience

Cloudflare

Software Engineer

Jan 2026 – Present · 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Working in the NetOS team, building and evolving SONiC for Cloudflare’s global edge and core network. Responsible for developing core network operating system features across control and data plane. Focused on reliability, scalability, and operational excellence in large-scale production networks.

Open-Source DevelopmentData Center NetworkingNetwork Infrastructure DesignSoftware InfrastructureSoftware Design

Juniper networks

Software Engineer 3

Aug 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 4 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · On-site

Built an agentic AI–driven self-healing configuration-validation system for Juniper QFX spine–leaf fabrics using a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, LangGraph orchestration, and parallel async PyEZ execution with cutting validation cycles by 95% (8h → 20m), processing 297K+ packets with zero drops, and achieving 100% BGP ECMP convergence accuracy. Developed a proprietary MCP client with connection pooling and request multiplexing to enable distributed, agentic automation with full topology awareness (spine/ToR), auto apply-groups deployment, and on-demand PFE/BCMShell diagnostics.
Developed a Global Load Balancing (GLB) mechanism atop ECMP in 3-clos leaf-spine architecture to address limitations of traditional RTAG7 hashing. GLB dynamically selects optimal paths based on real-time link quality (both local and remote), improving congestion control and acting as a failover mechanism during remote link failures.
Demonstrated 99% improvement in route convergence time at data center scale (~100K routes), drastically reducing blackholing and traffic drops compared to standard BGP ECMP.

C++Team BuildingBorder Gateway Protocol (BGP)Model Context Protocol (MCP)LangGraphPyEZ+2

Tejas networks

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2024 – Aug 2024 · 1 mo · Hybrid

Software InfrastructureSoftware Design

Software Engineer

Sep 2022 – Jul 2024 · 1 yr 10 mos · Hybrid

● Working as a software engineer in TejNeOS team. Responsible for developing Real time operating system for Tejas's high performance, fiber optics network devices.
● Working on traffic class of service in egress/ingress QoS.
● Worked on Brodcomm's packet processor such as Qumran and Jericho.
● Worked on Induction of SFP, SFP+, QSFP28 and CFP2 transceivers for Tejas's TJ14001 and TJ14001-U
OLT platform.
● Worked on L2 interface design, PTN ports, virtual devices, linux drivers for HAL devices.

Linux KernelQuality of Service (QoS)

Informatica

2 roles

Associate Consultant

Aug 2021 – Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

● Working as an Application and Managed Services consultant in Data Quality and Data Governance projects for various clients.
● Working as an Automation developer for various automation requirements to increase operational efficiency in multiple projects.
● Designed and built automated issue tracking and insights dashboard for internal development and worked on source code security
initiatives inside the organisation.

Extract, Transform, Load (ETL)Cloud ApplicationsETL

Intern

Mar 2021 – Aug 2021 · 5 mos · Bangalore Urban, Karnataka, India

● Worked on various ETL, Data Quality and Data Governance real world use cases .
● Created an automation framework for keeping track of jobs failed in a major Data Quality project.

Unix