Nikhil Bansal
Principal Group Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Bansal is a Principal Group Engineering Manager based in Bengaluru with over a decade of experience building high-performance networking and distributed systems across companies including Microsoft, Juniper, Cohesity, and Cisco. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Linux and FreeBSD kernel and user-space development, L2/L3 networking (notably BGP/MVPN in SDN), and machine learning model application to solve real-world problems. A pragmatic engineer-manager, he emphasizes code readability, field-debuggability, and full project lifecycle ownership from design through production troubleshooting. He has contributed to the widely used Contrail controller—improving socket handling, YAML config parsing, and operational telemetry—and holds six conference publications plus a patent. An IIT-Delhi alumnus with an MS from UC Irvine, he marries rigorous academic grounding with practiced operational instincts, evidenced by early top-50 IIT-JEE performance. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who converts complex protocol and kernel work into stable, manageable products.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi)University of California, Irvine
Github Skills (7)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
python9
configuration-management8
yaml8
tcp7
ip7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/contrail-controller
Nov 2015 - Jul 2020
Contrail Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:230 commits in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil focused on improving the Contrail Controller, specifically by resolving issues related to network socket handling and configuration management. Their work involved fixing bugs related to error logging in TCP sessions and enhancing the parsing of YAML configuration files to improve flexibility. Furthermore, the user made changes to move certain statistics collection and reporting to more efficient locations. These enhancements reflect a focus on improving the system's stability and management capabilities.
controlleropencontrail-core-projectopencontrail
Juniper/contrail-specs
Dec 2016 - Jan 2020
Repository for docs and specs
Contributions:10 commits in 3 years 1 month
specs
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