Summary
Aniket Puranik is a seasoned network engineer with nine years of experience designing and operating large-scale data center, backbone, and cloud networks, now focusing on backbone and cloud infrastructure at PayPal. He has driven complex GCP migrations and hybrid connectivity using IaC, Zero Trust models, and FedRAMP-compliant IPsec solutions while collaborating closely with Google PSOs, TPMs, and network architects. Hands-on across Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Cumulus and Palo Alto platforms, he pairs deep routing expertise (BGP/OSPF/ISIS, VxLAN, MACsec) with automation skills in Python, Terraform, and Ansible to make networks more secure, scalable, and repeatable. Notably, he helped deploy Arista CloudEOS on GCE and built production-grade hybrid interconnects on aggressive timelines, showing an unusual blend of cloud-native and hardware-centric networking experience. Based in Mountain View with an MS in Networking and System Administration, he brings practical operational rigor and a knack for translating architecture into resilient, auditable implementations.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Networking and System administration, Master of Science (M.S.) Networking and System administration at Rochester Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Mumbai
English, Hindi