Akshat Sharma
Technical Marketing Engineer (MSDC Web-OTT Service Provider) at Cisco Systems
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolAkshat Sharma is a Technical Marketing Engineer at Cisco with 11 years of experience designing and evangelizing IOS-XR solutions for web-scale and service provider networks. He blends systems-level routing expertise (multicast, BGP, MPLS, ASR9k/7600 platforms) with hands-on DevOps and programmability—Python, Linux, containers, telemetry and orchestration for MSDC/Web-OTT use cases. At Cisco he drives architecture for lean, API-first routing OSes and builds open-source tooling that operationalizes streaming telemetry (notable projects include QoSon, OpenBMP Controller, Route-Shuttle and IOS-XR config integrations). Fast at prototyping and automation, he routinely turns complex network features into reproducible DevOps demos and testing frameworks. Based in San Jose, he targets large web and carrier customers and often combines embedded device programmability with cloud-native patterns. An avid open-source contributor, he focuses on making network observability and control programmable at scale.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
I.C.S.E, I.C.S.E at Jamnabai Narsee SchoolB.Tech, Electronics, B.Tech, Electronics at University of MumbaiBachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Electronics Engineering at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI)H.S.C, Maths, Physics , Chemistry , Electronics, H.S.C, Maths, Physics , Chemistry , Electronics at D.G. Ruparel College
English, Hindi
Github Skills (61)
segment10
traceroute9
cisco-ios9
object-model9
service-layer9
streaming9
yang9
hosting9
telemetry9
docker8
docker-compose8
iso8
compass8
infrastructure8
ios8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ios-xr/pathchecker
May 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
xrdocs/avatars
Jul 2017 - Aug 2022
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.