Kiran Kotari
Software Consulting Engineering Technical Leader at Open Source
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolKiran Kotari is a seasoned software consulting engineering technical leader with 11 years of industry experience, currently driving DevOps and consulting initiatives at Cisco from Cary, NC. He specializes in network automation and NFV technologies such as Cisco NSO, YANG, and NETCONF, and has hands-on experience building function packs, netsim tooling, and operational integrations for service providers. A pragmatic full-stack engineer, he pairs Python-heavy automation and DevOps skills with product ownership experience, having led feature and delivery roadmaps inside Cisco. Kiran is an active open-source contributor—his work on pyenv-win and multiple networking tools demonstrates a knack for cross-platform tooling and practical utilities that developers actually use. He also holds postgraduate training in data science and machine learning from the University of Chicago, bringing data-driven thinking to automation and product decisions. Colleagues would note his rare blend of network domain depth, open-source craftsmanship, and a habit of turning operational pain points into reusable tools.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering, B.Tech Computer Science & Engineering at Geethanjali Institute of Science and TechnologyPostgraduate Program Data Science and Machine Learning, Postgraduate Program Data Science and Machine Learning at University of Chicago
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pyenv-win/pyenv-win
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
pyenv for Windows. pyenv is a simple python version management tool. It lets you easily switch between multiple versions of Python. It's simple, unobtrusive, and follows the UNIX tradition of single-purpose tools that do one thing well.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:24 releases, 121 reviews, 400 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Kiran's contributions primarily focused on modifying the `pyenv-win` tool, a Python version management tool for Windows. The changes include initial template creation, incorporating functionality from `rbenv-win`, and adapting the core scripts for `pyenv`. The commits involve modifications to batch files and VBScript files that handle core functions like installation and command execution. Furthermore, the user implemented features like the `--help` command, the rehash command, and the which and whence commands within the context of the `pyenv-win` and made updates to test scripts.
python-version-managementunixpythonunobtrusivepyenv-win
kirankotari/ncs-netsim2
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
ncs-netsim2 is a wrapper of ncs-netsim tool with added features.
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 56 pushes in 9 months
ncsnetsimwrapper
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