Alpesh Patel
Principal Engineer at Cisco
Cary, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlpesh Patel is a Principal Engineer with over 20 years of systems and networking experience and a decade-plus in senior platform roles, currently delivering RDMA-enabled features on SiliconOne with SONiC for storage and AI/ML deployments. He excels at solving hard problems at the intersection of OS and network stacks—building reproducible build systems, optimizing dataplanes, and enabling containerized NOS and virtual routers. Known for shrinking NOS build times from hours to minutes, he combines deep kernel, networking, and automation expertise to make complex infrastructure auditable and repeatable. His career at Cisco spans prototyping high-performance virtual routers, integrating smartNIC dataplanes, and architecting microservice connectivity at scale, reflecting a pattern of turning research prototypes into production products. Based in Cary, NC, he pairs rigorous engineering discipline with pragmatic delivery, and often surfaces subtle system-level bottlenecks before they become customer issues.
10 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of DelawareMS Engineering Management, MS Engineering Management at Santa Clara UniversityBE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
English, Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
armv610
sonic10
switch10
binary-image10
ansible10
cli9
python8
ssh7
automation6
devops6
infrastructure-as-code4
traffic2
network-configuration1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alpeshspatel/hello-world
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
alpeshspatel/sonic-mgmt
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
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