Eswaran Baskaran
Software at Nexthop AI
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEswaran Baskaran is a pragmatic software leader with 6 years of recent focused experience and a two-decade engineering pedigree across networking and cloud infrastructure. He has held engineering and management roles at AWS, Arista, and Cisco, delivering platform software for high-performance switches, routing systems, and cloud data startups. Comfortable shifting between hands-on development and people leadership, he has driven bringup, traffic-policy, and control-plane protection projects that power carrier-grade networks. Now based in the San Francisco Bay Area and working at Nexthop AI, he blends low-level systems expertise with cloud-native product execution. Eswaran’s background in ECE (MS, University of Maryland) underpins a practical approach to solving large-scale systems problems, and his stated drive—“getting big stuff done”—reflects a bias for measurable outcomes. He’s as at home optimizing switch fabrics as he is scaling distributed services for emerging AI infrastructure.
5 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
TNPLMS, ECE, MS, ECE at University of MarylandBachelor of Engineering (BE), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) at PSG College of Technology
Github Skills (9)
armv610
abstraction10
virtual-network10
sonic10
networking10
sdn10
switch10
binary-image9
state-management7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
eswaranb/SONiC
Aug 2020 - May 2021
Landing page for Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) - http://azure.github.io/SONiC/
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
networkingsonicazure
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Jul 2020 - Dec 2024
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Contributions:20 reviews, 24 comments in 4 years 6 months
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
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