Kenneth Finnegan
Senior Solutions Architect - Nvidia Infrastructure Specialist at NVIDIA
Morgan Hill, California, United States
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Top SchoolKenneth Finnegan is a Senior Solutions Architect and Nvidia Infrastructure Specialist with 20 years of multidisciplinary engineering experience spanning networking, electrical systems, embedded firmware, and large-scale GPU cluster deployments. He combines hands-on expertise from roles at Arista Networks and Lam Research with practical infrastructure work running a community internet exchange, giving him a rare perspective across data center networking, hardware design, and field deployment tooling. Kenneth contributes to open-source networking automation (notably Arista AVD) and builds deployment kits that accelerate HPC provisioning and operations. Based in Morgan Hill, CA, he pairs systems-level thinking with a habit of exploring diverse engineering topics—evidenced by personal projects and a history of building high-performance test and capture systems—to solve complex, cross-domain problems.
19 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering at University of California, DavisCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Github Skills (20)
network-configuration10
jinja210
aries10
yaml10
ansible10
ansible-galaxy10
aris10
assembly9
gcc9
python9
encryption9
recursion6
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aristanetworks/avd
Dec 2021 - Feb 2022
Arista AVD: Architect Validate Deploy
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 11 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to the Arista AVD repository by implementing features and fixing issues related to network configuration generation. Their work involved modifying Ansible templates to support new functionalities such as local user SSH key management and MAC ACL support for Ethernet and port-channel interfaces. The user also addressed issues related to interface information within the EOS designs and IPv6 ACL support for QOS policy maps.
cvpjinja2cloudvisionnetwork-automationcloudvision-portal
PhirePhly/aprx
Sep 2014 - Sep 2021
A highly configurable APRS I-gate/Digipeater Daemon
Contributions:65 commits, 8 PRs, 37 pushes in 7 years 1 month
configurablegateaprsdaemonupstream
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