Nitin Soni
Principal Software Designer at Juniper Networks
Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolNitin Soni is a Principal Software Designer with nine years of experience building high-performance networking and cloud data center systems, currently leading architecture and delivery at Juniper Networks. He has deep expertise in routing and switching technologies (BGP, EVPN, VxLAN, IRB), distributed JUNOS evolution work, and Layer 2 protocols including ARP, EOAM, CFM and LFM, plus hands-on experience with JET APIs. His background spans carrier-grade mobile packet core protocols (LTE, IMS, GPRS) from his Cisco work to cloud-native networking, Kubernetes and container-focused projects at Juniper and Cumulus. Known for designing scalable, distributed systems, he helped replace expensive vendor test gear with in-house simulation nodes that saved millions, demonstrating a pragmatic bent for operational cost reduction. Based in Ontario, Canada, he blends system-level networking depth with a passion for open-source networking stacks like FRR and a track record of shipping production-ready, distributed network OS components.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (Indian School of Mines), Dhanbad
English, Hindi
Github Skills (20)
pbr10
mpls10
networking10
nfv10
blockchain10
openflow10
bgp10
pim10
ospf10
paths9
infiniband9
verify9
cisco8
yang8
5g7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nitinsoniism/frr
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
The FRRouting Protocol Suite
Contributions:33 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 3 months
ospfmultiplexerfrroutingblockchainaio
nitinsoniism/kne
Sep 2021 - Jan 2024
Contributions:49 pushes, 16 branches in 2 years 5 months
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