Manny Taheri
Senior Software Engineer at Nokia
Gardner, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolManny Taheri is a Senior Software Engineer and seasoned SQA professional with over 20 years of experience testing and hardening networking systems across IPv4/IPv6, Ethernet, TCP/IP, routing and broadband technologies. He has driven functional, performance and scale testing at industry leaders including Cisco and Nokia, led multi-platform IPv6 projects completed ahead of schedule, and built widely reused TCL automation libraries that saved time and costs. Comfortable in Unix/Linux datacenter environments and cloud contexts, he has hands-on experience with virtualization, VMware, IXIA/Smartbit test gear, and CI tooling like Jenkins, Git and Rally. More recently he contributed to the SONiC open-source testing ecosystem, improving VoQ and multi-ASIC test coverage and migrating infra to sonic-db-cli. Based in Gardner, MA, Manny blends deep protocol-level expertise with pragmatic automation to make complex networking features reliable in production. Colleagues rely on him for rigorous test design, quick troubleshooting, and cross-cultural collaboration on large-scale platform deliveries.
5 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Lowel
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
sonic10
pytest10
python10
test-automation10
back-end-development9
bgp9
docker8
cicd8
dockers8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
sonic-net/sonic-mgmt
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer & Back-end Developer
Test Automation Engineer & Back-end DeveloperContributions:42 reviews, 33 commits, 66 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Manny primarily contributed to the automated testing framework and back-end components within the SONiC configuration management examples. They fixed bugs in existing tests, specifically related to SFP and VoQ functionality, ensuring accurate data retrieval and comparison. Furthermore, the user added and modified test cases for disruptive events, IP interface handling, and BGP neighbor recovery within the VoQ test plan, enhancing the system's reliability. They also updated testing infrastructure by migrating from `redis-cli` to `sonic-db-cli` and incorporated changes to support multi-ASIC platforms.
configuration-managementsonic
mannytaheri/sonic-mgmt
Jul 2021 - Jun 2026
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Contributions:174 pushes, 59 branches in 5 years
configuration-managementansibleconfigurationsonic
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