Komal Desai
Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolKomal Desai is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat with a 12+-year background in systems engineering, cloud and network automation, and production-grade Python development. She drives architecture and long-term maintainability for Ansible Network Content Collections, collaborating with vendors like Cisco, Arista, and Juniper while balancing upstream open-source contributions with enterprise requirements. Her experience spans building CI/CD test infrastructures (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), deploying scalable virtual network testbeds on AWS, and automating large Linux/VDI and HPC environments with Ansible and Puppet. Prior roles in financial and aerospace sectors honed her expertise in clustered storage, performance tuning, and fault diagnosis across UNIX variants and virtualization stacks. Known for mentoring peers and leading design and code reviews, she brings a pragmatic focus on scalability, backward compatibility, and usability. Outside the obvious, she uniquely bridges low-level system reliability work with higher-level network automation roadmaps, making her effective at turning vendor-specific device behavior into robust automation modules.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Technology at Gujrat Technological UniversityDiploma of Engineering Information Technology, Diploma of Engineering Information Technology at Nirma University
Github Skills (28)
nxos10
cisco-nxos10
ansible-collections10
junos-automation10
nexus10
juniper10
cisco10
factory9
cisco-ios9
ansible9
libssh9
python-bindings9
testing8
vcenter7
esxi6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
komaldesai13/cisco.nxos
Apr 2022 - Jun 2026
Ansible Network Collection for Cisco NXOS
Contributions:42 pushes, 6 branches in 4 years 2 months
netmikorouterosnetwork-automationansiblenxos
komaldesai13/zuul-config
Feb 2022 - Jun 2026
Global configuration for Software Factory Zuul instance
Contributions:7 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 4 months
software-factoryzuulfactory
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