Ashwin Arunkumar
IP Architect at Nokia
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAshwin Arunkumar is an IP Architect based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of focused experience designing and automating complex IP and data center networks. His career spans technical and consulting roles at Nokia, HPE, Juniper, and Dell, with deep hands-on expertise in segment routing, telemetry, SRLinux, SONiC, and large-scale production environments for hyperscalers. He has a strong background in service provider routing and switching across MX, PTX, EX, and QFX platforms and holds JNCIE-SP certification from his advanced JTAC work. Known for bridging field engineering with product and pre-sales consulting, he excels at translating operational requirements into deployable, automated network solutions. Ashwin pairs a computer engineering foundation with a master's in software development, bringing both software-first thinking and operational rigor to network architecture. Less obvious: he has repeatedly moved between deep technical support and strategic customer-facing roles, giving him rare fluency in both troubleshooting at packet-scale and shaping product direction.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Anna University ChennaiKendriya Vidyalaya SangathanMaster's degree Software Development | Computer Science, Master's degree Software Development | Computer Science at Boston University
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Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ashwinak/myProjects
Aug 2020 - Mar 2023
Contributions:22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
ashwinak/gnmic
Jun 2023 - Mar 2025
gnmic a gnmi CLI client and collector
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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