Kiran Shastri
Senior Technical Lead at Cisco
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKiran Shastri is a Senior Technical Lead based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 8 years of focused experience in networking, system software and orchestration. At Cisco he bridges orchestration platforms (OpenStack, Kubernetes) with high-performance dataplanes like Open vSwitch and VPP, driving both control-plane integrations and datapath implementations. His background spans VXLAN and multicast forwarding, L2/L3 protocol stacks, and embedded systems—skills honed across roles at Cisco, Brocade, Qualcomm and Intel. He combines deep protocol-level expertise with practical orchestration work, enabling cloud-native networking solutions that operate at carrier-grade scale. Notably, his career threads research on opportunistic routing and early embedded power/network optimizations into today’s software-defined networking challenges.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
B.E, Electronics Engineering, B.E, Electronics Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Arizona State University
German
Github Skills (34)
lightning10
podman10
napalm10
kubernetes10
rke10
container10
docker10
integrate10
apic10
ansible-collections10
cni10
provisioning10
rancher10
infrastructure-management10
network-automation10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
noironetworks/rke
Jun 2020 - Jun 2022
Rancher Kubernetes Engine, an extremely simple, lightning fast Kubernetes installer that works everywhere.
Contributions:172 pushes, 14 branches in 2 years
containersinstallerlightningdockerkubernetes-installer
noironetworks/netop-types
Oct 2022 - Jun 2023
Common repo for holding CKO type definitions used across control and workload clusters
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 16 pushes in 7 months
codemodclusterstype-definitionscjskubernetes
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