Navaneeth Krishnan

Software Engineer

San Jose, California, United States10 yrs 10 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in network engineering and cloud computing.
Proven track record in developing scalable network solutions.
Strong background in software engineering with diverse programming skills.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Networking and Cloud Computing specialist with strong software engineering capabilities.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringCloud ComputingNetwork Engineering

Other Skills

System software EngineeringCompute NetworkingDPDKTraffic generation frameworkNetwork Load BalancerPacket processing pipelinesNetwork Interface bringupNetwork Protocol bringupHardware Abstraction LayerBroadcom ASICsPacket forwarding infrastructureLinux kernel programmingDriver developmentPythonOpenconfig

Experience

10 yrs 10 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 5 mos

Current Experience

Apple

Software Engineer - Apple Cloud

Dec 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 5 mos · Cupertino, California, United States

System software Engineer - Compute Networking

System software EngineeringCompute NetworkingSoftware EngineeringCloud Computing

Oracle

Member Of Technical Staff

Nov 2020 – Nov 2021 · 1 yr · Santa Clara, California, United States

Involved in the development of OCI’s Flexible Network Load Balancer using DPDK.
Wrote packet processing pipelines and made use of chain replication date store, to
store Network Address Translation information.
Developed a traffic generation framework based out of DPDK, to generate stateuful
HTTP traffic. To scale test OCI’s Flexible network load balancer

DPDKTraffic generation frameworkNetwork Load BalancerPacket processing pipelinesNetwork EngineeringCloud Computing

Cisco

5 roles

Software Enginer 3 - Switch Forwarding Infrastructure

Promoted

Apr 2020 – Nov 2020 · 7 mos

Network Interface bringup and Network Protocol bringup on Cisco's Data center 400G Line of ASIC train
1) Physical Interface Bringup
2) VLAN bringup
3) SVI Bring up
4) L2 Unicast , Multicast and Flood
5) L3 Infra for routing protocols
6) L3 SubInterfaces
7) bring up 2x200G breakout links
Define , design and implement the Hardware Abstraction Layer for 400G switches over Broadcom / Innovium / In house ASICs so that the applications on top of the Nexus OS have the same set of APIs
Implement MTU functionality for Broadcom's Jericho2 400G ASIC
Implement Inservice software upgrade for the Hardware abstraction layer for 400G Switches over broadcom/Innovium/In house ASICs, so that the switch still continue to forward packets when the Operating system is going through an upgrade
Implement Packet and Octet Counter Functionality for SVI / Vlan and Subinterfaces

Network Interface bringupNetwork Protocol bringupHardware Abstraction LayerBroadcom ASICsNetwork EngineeringSoftware Engineering

Software Engineer 2 - Switch forwarding Infrastructure

Jun 2019 – Apr 2020 · 10 mos

Develop features for Packet forwarding infrastructure on the NX-OS.
Linux kernel programming and driver development to handle incoming control plane packets and hand over to respective User space process and ASIC drivers

Packet forwarding infrastructureLinux kernel programmingDriver developmentSoftware Engineering

Software Engineer 2 - Tooling Development

Feb 2018 – Jun 2019 · 1 yr 4 mos

Insieme Networks / Data Center networking
Python, Openconfig, YANG , NetConf

PythonOpenconfigYANGNetConfSoftware Engineering

Co Op Software Developer

Sep 2017 – Dec 2017 · 3 mos

Python network automation

PythonNetwork automationNetwork Engineering

Software Engineer Internship

May 2017 – Aug 2017 · 3 mos

Development and bring up of virtualized device test beds to save costs rather than actually deploying million dollar physical test beds.
Wrote code to scale the virtualized infra test bed and integrated with internal system testing tools so that the virtualized infra can function like a physical network test bed.
Technologies Used – C,Python,Paravirtualization, VxLan, Python ,Docker, ACI

CPythonParavirtualizationVxLanDockerACI+1

Usc networking and telecommunications infrastructure services

Student Worker

Sep 2016 – Sep 2017 · 1 yr · Los Angeles Metropolitan Area

1) Network Automation using Python , for pushing network logs to network analytic tools and making predictions for efficient network operations.
2) Writing Database queries for maintaining VoIP Avaya phones on TMIS ( a telecom management software).
3) Automation of printing of Jack labels for ethernet cables

Network AutomationDatabase queriesNetwork Engineering

Cisco

4 roles

Engineer- IT Data Center Engineering

Jul 2015 – Jul 2016 · 1 yr

]Development of Layer 2 and Layer 3 applications and unit test cases for Cisco's SDN product the Application Centric Infrastructure using python and Django .
]Development of scripts for automating manual Data Center network maintenance tasks .
]Taking part in the oncall process to ensure high infrastructure availability.
]Migration of applications from a traditional network to an SDN and cloud framework using python scripts in a devops fashion

PythonDjangoSDNSoftware Engineering

Software Development Intern collaboration information technology group

Jan 2015 – Jun 2015 · 5 mos

Developing Upnp Stack
Driving innovation in cisco Voip endpoints

CUPnPSoftware Engineering

Summer Internship Network Implementation Engineering

Jun 2014 – Sep 2014 · 3 mos · Bangalore

Automating ACL management by developing a GUI

GUI developmentSoftware Engineering

Internship

Jun 2013 – Aug 2013 · 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Developed a network storage management tool for CISCO's Network Implementation team
Developed Perl Scripts for automating certain features of IPv6 enablement on Cisco's Networks

Network storage managementPerlSoftware Engineering