Summary
Mahesh Poojary is a Senior Technical Specialist with 10+ years designing and delivering carrier-grade networking and orchestration solutions across SDN, ONAP, 5G, EMS/NMS and AAA domains. He has led features and integrations for multi-vendor, multi-layer orchestration (HMDO) and production ONAP projects, driving end-to-end work from requirements and design to coding and testing. Mahesh’s hands-on expertise spans Java/Spring boot, NETCONF/YANG, TAPI, PCEP/PCE, RabbitMQ, Kubernetes and cloud-native tooling, with substantial experience in optical and MPLS traffic engineering. He has contributed to the ONOS open-source project by implementing PCEP protocol handling and PCEP-LS TEReport support, showing depth in core protocol and unit-test work on a prominent SDN platform. Based in Bengaluru, he combines telecom-grade systems thinking with practical engineering—often bridging device-level netconf interactions and higher-level topology/service automation. His career thread shows a rare mix of protocol-level implementation and orchestration-layer system design, useful for operators migrating to programmable, multi-vendor networks.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Mangalore University
English