Kenneth Duda
President And CTO at Arista Networks
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Duda is a veteran technology leader and co-founder who currently serves as President and CTO of Arista Networks, bringing decades of deep systems and networking expertise to data center infrastructure. He is a hands-on programmer in C++, Linux, and Python with a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford and an MS/BS from MIT, grounded in operating systems, Ethernet, IP networking, and distributed systems. Over a career spanning early roles at Granite Systems and Cisco through founding and growing Arista, he has combined technical architecture, product strategy, and team leadership to ship production-grade network OS and switching software. Known for bridging research-grade ideas and commercial execution, he pairs low-level protocol and OS knowledge with experience in pre-sales, product marketing, and support. Based in Menlo Park, he focuses on building high-performance, reliable networking platforms for large-scale data centers. A less obvious strength is his breadth across the full product lifecycle—from kernel and networking code to customer-facing go-to-market and operations.
9 years of coding experience
31 years of employment as a software developer
MS, BS, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, MS, BS, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D., Computer Science, Ph.D., Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (42)
golang9
docker8
programming-language8
internet-connection7
container7
go7
docker-registry7
harbor6
interpreter6
rockchip6
ecosystem6
dispatch5
compiler5
content-type5
daemon4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kduda/greetme
Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:3 reviews, 4 PRs, 4 pushes in 6 months
aristanetworks/dinetd
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Dynamic Internet Daemon: dispatch incoming connections to an arbitrary command
Contributions:1 review, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
dispatchdaemonincomingarbitrarytraceroute
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