Anees Shaikh
Principal Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnees Shaikh is a Principal Software Engineer at Google with over a decade of experience building control, management, and security systems for planetary-scale networks and cloud networking products. He founded the industry-led OpenConfig project and was a co-creator of the OpenDaylight SDN controller, demonstrating a long-standing commitment to vendor-neutral, open-source approaches to network management. At Google he has led teams delivering traffic management, routing security, and intent-based network modeling for the Global WAN, and earlier drove SDN product architecture and open-source strategy at IBM. Anees combines hands-on technical leadership with R&D pedigree from IBM Research, where he founded global SDN programs and successfully transferred research into products. He is often the bridge between operators, cloud providers, and standards bodies—helping accelerate real-world deployment of routing security and network automation. Based in San Jose with a PhD-level research background, he pairs deep systems expertise with a talent for building distributed engineering teams and industry consensus.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering, Ph.D. Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganBS MS Electrical Engineering, BS MS Electrical Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (52)
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openconfig/public
Sep 2015 - May 2021
Repository for publishing OpenConfig models, documentation, and other material for the community.
Contributions:18 reviews, 221 commits, 11 PRs in 5 years 8 months
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openconfig/yang
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:20 pushes, 2 tags in 8 months
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