Nikhil Bhatia
Staff Software Engineer at Aricent
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikhil Bhatia is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Jose with 8+ years of professional experience building high-performance, large-scale networking and system management products. He specializes in C/C++ on Linux and has deep protocol expertise across TCP/IP, GTP, IPSec/IKE, DMVPN/FlexVPN, and core routing protocols like OSPF and EIGRP. Nikhil has hands-on experience modifying the Linux TCP/IPv4 stack for throughput optimization and developing on Linux netfilter hooks, YANG/Confd/YumaPRO, and RESTCONF/NETCONF integrations. His background spans engineering roles at Cisco, Aricent, Sonus, and currently Zscaler, where he contributes architecture and production-quality code as an individual contributor. Comfortable with multi-threading, IPC, and varied toolchains (docker, git, gdb, valgrind, tcpdump, wireshark), he pairs deep systems knowledge with a pragmatic focus on shipping to spec and schedule. Colleagues describe him as responsible, approachable, and perpetually curious—constantly learning new technologies to solve hard networking problems.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
St Marks Janak PuriRamjas School Pusa RoadBachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Amity School of Engg and TechGithub contributions (3)
nbhatia911/grpc.redis.project
Aug 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:39 commits, 43 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 1 month
nbhatia911/buildroot_raspberrypi3
Jul 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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