Praveen Raja
Staff Software Engineer at Celestica
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
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Top SchoolPraveen Raja is a Staff Software Engineer based in Chennai with over a decade of embedded and networking software experience and three years in senior roles focused on system-level engineering. He has a strong track record in C, L2/L3 protocols, and both Linux application and kernel development, contributing to product teams at VVDN, Extreme Networks, Cisco, and currently Celestica. Praveen specializes in bridging firmware and Linux-based networking stacks to deliver robust, production-grade features for communications equipment. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic design choices that balance performance, maintainability, and interoperability across protocol layers. Though his public GitHub activity is minimal, his career progression reflects hands-on ownership of complex embedded systems and protocol implementations. Trained in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Anna University, he brings hardware-aware software insight to networking software challenges.
3 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Anna University, Chennai
English, Tamil
Github Skills (12)
armv610
virtual-network10
sonic10
networking10
switch10
sdn10
binary-image9
redis-database9
state-management9
cli7
redis6
database6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
praveenraja1/sonic-buildimage
Sep 2022 - Apr 2023
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Contributions:2 PRs, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
installablesonicbinary-imageimage-build
praveenraja1/sonic-utilities-vxlan
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Command line utilities for the SONiC project
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 days
command-line-utilitiessoniccli
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