Ankur Tandon
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnkur Tandon is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Juniper Networks with over a decade of experience building and leading teams that deliver automated fabric management and network control plane software. He specializes in C, C++ and Python development for data center fabrics, EVPN-VXLAN automation, and underlay/overlay orchestration, and has progressed through hands-on engineering roles from packet forwarding engines to product-level fabric management. At Juniper he drives Contrail Fabric capabilities—Day 0-to-Day 2 automation, telemetry, hitless upgrades and multitenant, multivendor operations—while maintaining a strong focus on network automation and configuration management. His open-source contributions to the well-known Juniper/contrail-controller repo include substantive Ansible work around VNC modules, Junos templates, multicast and BGP peering, reflecting a blend of backend, DevOps and testing discipline. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs deep protocol-level expertise with pragmatic leadership that turns complex networking requirements into production-ready, automatable solutions.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics, B.Tech, Electrical and Electronics at Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra
Github Skills (13)
bgp10
configuration-manager10
configuration-management10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
configurations10
system-configuration10
devops10
python10
networking10
ansible10
yaml9
jinjava9
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
Juniper/contrail-controller
Feb 2018 - Jul 2020
Contrail Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:180 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ankur primarily focused on the development and modification of Ansible playbooks within the Contrail Controller repository. Their contributions involved implementing changes to the VNC module for improved functionality and adding new configuration options. Additionally, the user made changes to Junos configuration templates and implemented updates related to overlay network configurations, suggesting a strong focus on network automation and configuration management within the context of the Contrail project. These changes also involved the introduction and maintenance of features like multicast routing and BGP peering configurations. The user also demonstrated involvement with unit testing and bug fixing within the Ansible modules.
controlleropencontrail-core-projectopencontrail
tungstenfabric/tf-api-client
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 commits in 1 day
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