Bhanu Viswanath
Senior Technical Support Specialist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Greater Bengaluru Area India
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Top SchoolBhanu Viswanath is an infrastructure-focused Senior Technical Support Specialist with 9 years of experience designing, tuning, and troubleshooting VMware vSphere and NSX environments for large enterprises. He combines deep hands-on expertise in virtualization, network overlays, and storage integration with strong RCA skills—regularly reproducing issues in lab environments and producing actionable bug reports for engineering. At Broadcom and CGI he handled complex kernel and performance problems, cluster-level failures, and L2/L3 networking including BGP/OSPF and VXLAN/Geneve, and now supports HPE customers at a senior level. An active contributor to the Open Compute Project’s SAI repository, he’s extended switch APIs for advanced features like PTP timestamping and BFD offload, demonstrating low-level systems and back-end development chops beyond typical support roles. Based in Bengaluru with an ECE degree, he blends practical operational rigor with protocol-level coding experience to resolve hard-to-reproduce infrastructure faults.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Kalpataru Institute of Technology, TIPTUR
Github Skills (11)
c1710
abstract10
abstraction10
c1110
abstraction-layer10
api-design9
networking9
ptp7
acl7
access-control-list7
telemetry6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opencomputeproject/SAI
Aug 2016 - Feb 2021
Switch Abstraction Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 16 commits, 35 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bhanu primarily contributed to the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) project, focusing on extending the API to support new features and improve existing ones. Their work involved adding new attributes to various SAI objects, such as switch, port, and BFD session objects, to enable functionalities like link training control, BFD offload, and PTP timestamping. The user also enhanced the API with support for features like aggregate reporting for TAM events and matching INT packets. Furthermore, the user refactored the code to accommodate larger buffer sizes.
switchabstraction
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