Anish Narsian
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAnish Narsian is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with seven years of experience building low-level networking, cloud, and distributed systems software. He currently contributes to Microsoft Azure and has a background at Broadcom working on Linux drivers and platform-level debugging for storage and networking hardware. Anish is an active open-source contributor to the SONiC ecosystem, improving Fine Grained ECMP, build-image tooling, and test suites—work that spans kernel integration, routing/neighbor resolution, and IPv6/vxlan validation. He combines systems-level rigor with DevOps and QA sensibilities, enabling reliable packet flow and route stability in production-grade networking stacks. A UCSD computer science alumnus, he brings a practical focus on reliability and interoperability that surfaces in both code and test infrastructure.
7 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
Github Skills (27)
c-language10
sonic10
python10
r10
configuration-management10
test-framework10
abstraction10
packet10
abstraction-layer10
networking10
f10
abstract10
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
dockers9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-swss
Jun 2019 - Sep 2021
SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 8 commits, 7 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Anish primarily focused on enhancing the Fine Grained ECMP (FG ECMP) functionality within the SONiC Switch State Service (SwSS) for the `sonic-net/sonic-swss` repository. Their contributions included implementing changes for link oper state handling, enabling packet flow, and refining matching modes. The user also addressed intermittent timing failures and resolved issues to improve stability and reliability, particularly relating to the integration with the kernel and route resolution.
sonicswitch
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Jul 2020 - Jan 2022
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:50 reviews, 15 commits, 10 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Anish primarily contributed to the configuration and maintenance of the SONiC build image. They added functionality related to VLAN prefix lists within the FRR templates. Their work also involved cleaning up the FG_ROUTE state database table during reload operations. Furthermore, they made modifications to the minigraph parsing logic, adding support for new parameters and adjustments to fine-grained ECMP matchmode and downstream subrole parsing.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
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