Harish Venkatraman
Principal Engineer at Infinera
Tracy, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarish Venkatraman is a Principal Engineer with over 20 years of experience designing and delivering networking products, currently shaping optical and network solutions at Infinera while consulting for Aarna Networks. He combines deep protocol expertise—VXLAN, BGP/EVPN, MPLS, LDP, RSVP—and hands-on experience with cloud-native packaging using Docker and Kubernetes to move carrier-grade features into modern open networking stacks. At Dell he built containerized networking apps for OS10 and contributed to Microsoft’s SONiC project, improving Broadcom platform support and optics/buffer handling in the widely used sonic-buildimage repository. Known for bridging hardware-specific optimization with software design, he has implemented FIB optimizations, sFlow agents, and WAN compression/protocol tuning for high-throughput environments. Comfortable in cross-functional leadership and open source communities, he brings both low-level systems craftsmanship and product-focused delivery to complex networking challenges. Based in Tracy, California, he pairs enterprise-scale engineering with practical deployment experience across carriers, enterprise WLAN, and cloud networking.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters in Computers, Computer Applications, Masters in Computers, Computer Applications at University of Madras
Github Skills (15)
configuration-management10
buffer10
buffering10
sonic10
jinja210
scripting9
dockers9
hal9
abstraction-layer9
bash9
script9
docker9
json9
cpd8
python7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Nov 2017 - Feb 2019
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / DevOps Engineer
Embedded Systems Engineer / DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 18 PRs, 51 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Harish Venkatraman primarily focused on enhancing the build and configuration processes for SONiC images. His contributions include adding support for various Broadcom switch configurations and buffer management, which involved modifying configuration files and scripts. He integrated hardware-specific settings and optimized buffer configurations. Additionally, he worked on improving optics detection within the system.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
vharish02/sonic-buildimage
Jul 2017 - Sep 2019
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Contributions:38 pushes, 18 branches in 2 years 2 months
installablesonicbinary-imageimage-build
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