Anand Mehra
Technical Leader at Cisco
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnand Mehra is a technical leader based in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade-plus track record building infrastructure and backend systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Cisco. He brings hands-on expertise in DevOps and backend engineering, demonstrated by contributions to the SONiC open-source project where he improved multi‑ASIC support, systemd integration, memory handling, and build/test automation for network OS images. Anand progressed from individual contributor roles to technical leadership across telecom and networking companies, blending deep product-level coding with operational reliability priorities. He is comfortable navigating complex embedded and distributed environments and translating low-level fixes into scalable build and deployment improvements. Colleagues rely on him to stabilize tricky platform issues while driving incremental automation that prevents regressions. His electronics and communications background gives him a practical systems perspective that informs both design and debugging at the intersection of hardware and software.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
AISSC, PCM, AISSC, PCM at Adarsh public SchoolB.Tech, Electronics and Communications, B.Tech, Electronics and Communications at Kurukshetra University
Github Skills (9)
c1710
c1110
sonic10
build-automation10
bash9
python8
dockers7
docker7
github4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
May 2021 - Sep 2022
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Backend Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Backend EngineerContributions:63 reviews, 13 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Anand primarily focused on improving the systemd-sonic-generator, addressing multi-asic configurations, and enhancing the build process. Their contributions include fixing memory allocation issues, increasing limits for ASIC instances, and adding build unit test support. They also worked on integrating new services and plugins related to topology configuration and shutdown routines, alongside fixes to configuration and data management files and processes.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
anamehra/sonic-mgmt
Jun 2022 - Jan 2025
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Contributions:26 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 7 months
configuration-managementansibleconfigurationsonic
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