Deepa Dhurka
Software Engineering Manager at Juniper Networks
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolDeepa Dhurka is a software engineering manager and seasoned networking technologist with 13 years of experience driving firmware, control-plane and cloud IaaS software for datacenter switches, multi-service routers and large-scale OpenStack deployments. She blends deep protocol-level expertise (VRRP, BFD, L2/L3, OAM) and SDN/overlay networking with hands-on operational impact—at PayPal she helped raise VM reachability from ~60% to 99.9% in multiple AZs. A pragmatic architect and owner, Deepa has led ISSU and other high-visibility projects end-to-end, resolving critical customer escalations and shipping robust features at scale. She pairs enterprise experience at Juniper, Cisco and Ericsson with entrepreneurial grit from founding a consumer food startup, bringing product-minded engineering and rapid feedback loops to technical teams. An active FLOSS enthusiast, she developed and presented OpenFlow-related work at major conferences, including a Linux Conf AU talk singled out as a conference highlight. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she focuses on building trusting, collaborative teams that deliver measurable reliability and customer value.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
MS Electrical Engineering (Computer Networks), MS Electrical Engineering (Computer Networks) at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communications, Bachelor of Engineering Electronics and Communications at Manipal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (17)
cocoa-touch6
xcode6
cocoa6
interface-builder6
connections4
openflow3
emacs-lisp2
machine-learning2
python2
emacs2
proximity-sensor1
proximity1
raspberry-pi1
home-automation1
gpio1
Github contributions (5)
CodeChix-OpenSource/OFconnect
May 2013 - Apr 2017
Contributions:102 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 4 years
shared-libraryconnectionsopenflow
deepadhurka/emacs
May 2016 - Apr 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
emacsconfiguration-filesemacs-configurationemacs-lisp
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