Gagan Ellath
SONiC Software Design Engineer at NVIDIA
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGagan Ellath is a SONiC Software Design Engineer at NVIDIA with two years of professional experience building network OS automation and platform integration. He brings hands-on expertise in SONiC build infrastructure—contributing to the widely used sonic-buildimage project by adding packages, install scripts, and DPU traffic-forwarding utilities—alongside practical DevOps and containerization work such as mounting dbus sockets for platform monitors. His background spans embedded and automotive communication protocols from Bosch and research in adversarial learning at USC, giving him a blend of systems, networking, and ML-aware thinking. Based in Redmond, he pairs a USC MS in Computer Engineering with a pragmatic approach to shipping reliable, production-grade network software.
2 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Technology, EEE, Bachelor of Technology, EEE at Nitte Meenakshi Institute of Technology
Github Skills (16)
sh10
automation10
bash10
docker10
automations10
script10
shell10
sonic10
build-system10
dockers10
scripting10
linux9
net8
network8
networking8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 39 PRs, 78 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Gagan primarily focused on building and maintaining the build infrastructure for SONiC images. Their contributions include adding new packages (minicom), scripts for image installation, and configuration files for the Mellanox platform. They also implemented a DPU management traffic forwarding script and debug print messages in the bfb installer. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating the debug dump utility and mounting the dbus socket within the platform monitor Docker container.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
gpunathilell/sonic-buildimage
Jan 2024 - Mar 2025
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Contributions:75 reviews, 57 PRs, 168 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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