Padmini Misra
Limited Partner at How Women Invest
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPadmini Misra is a seasoned software engineering leader with over a decade of experience architecting and managing networking software teams at industry leaders like Arista, Juniper, and Cisco. She combines deep technical expertise in routing, MPLS, multicast, BGP-based MVPNs, Docker and Kubernetes with a demonstrated ability to grow high-performing cross-functional teams and drive product impact. As Director of Engineering at Arista and a Limited Partner at How Women Invest, she blends operational leadership with active support for women founders and ecosystem change. Known for encouraging experimentation and risk-taking, she mentors engineers by aligning their strengths and career goals with business objectives. An avid cyclist and backpacker, she applies lessons from endurance and outdoor challenges—risk management, resilience and creative problem-solving—to her leadership style. Based in Fremont, CA, she brings rigorous engineering roots (BITS Pilani, Ohio State) to strategic decision-making in networking and cloud-native infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMS Computer and Information Science, MS Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (10)
go-language9
parser9
compiler6
go6
yang5
napalm5
infiniband4
tla2
parsing1
golang1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
padmini-m/goyang
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
golangyangcompilergo-languageparser
openconfig/goyang
Sep 2015 - Mar 2017
YANG parser and compiler to produce Go language objects
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 5 months
compilergo-languageparser
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