Krishna Kotha
System Architect at Cisco
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKrishna Kotha is a System Architect based in San Jose with 9 years of hands-on experience designing, upgrading, and securing large-scale network infrastructures across enterprise and service-provider environments. He brings deep expertise in Cisco and Juniper technologies (CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA, JNCIS) and a strong background in automation—authoring Python NETCONF/RESTCONF scripts for configuration management and alerting that bridge networking and DevOps. At Cisco he progressed from Technical Marketing Engineer to System Architect, and earlier roles at Brocade and JTAC honed his testing, automation, and troubleshooting skills on diverse platforms. Comfortable across routing, switching, MPLS, BGP/OSPF, and SDN controllers, he combines protocol-level fluency with practical capacity planning and maintenance discipline. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex operational requirements into repeatable, automated workflows that reduce downtime and simplify upgrades.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Electrical Engineering, Masters, Electrical Engineering at Wichita State University
Github Skills (15)
network-automation10
netconf10
python10
rest-framework10
smtps7
smtp7
smtpd7
bash7
snmpd6
snmp6
ssh6
kubernetes-pods5
dockers5
docker5
kubernetes5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
CiscoDevNet/python_code_samples_network
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
A collection of Python Code Samples for Network Management. Includes samples to run on-box and off-box.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Krishna contributed significantly to network management automation by developing Python scripts for configuration management via NETCONF and RESTCONF. They implemented various RESTCONF functionalities, including GET, PUT, POST, PATCH, and DELETE operations, demonstrating expertise in API interaction. Moreover, the user created a script for email alerts upon interface flapping, showcasing their ability to implement network monitoring and automation solutions.
pythonrestconfnetconfsshsnmp
krishna426426/Module-1-Guestshell
Mar 2021 - Apr 2021
Contributions:40 commits, 35 pushes in 1 month
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