Rajendra A
Software Test Engineer at Arista Networks
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRajendra A is a Software Test Engineer based in San Jose with 10 years of experience focused on Software Defined Networking and network engineering. He holds an MS in Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications and combines deep protocol knowledge (BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VxLAN, IPv6) with hands-on security and tooling experience (AAA, NAT, IPS/IDS, Wireshark, Ixia, GNS3). At Arista Networks he contributes to production-grade automation, notably enhancing Ansible/Jinja2 roles for the widely used Arista AVD project to support native VLANs, super-spine topologies and point-to-point links. Comfortable with Python and C and fluent across Linux, Cisco IOS and Arista EOS, he brings strong troubleshooting, customer-facing skills and attention to detail. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex networking requirements into testable, automatable configurations that accelerate deployment and reduce operational risk.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Kumaraguru college of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Science - MS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Wichita State University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (11)
eos10
ansible-galaxy10
aris10
aries10
jinja210
runbook10
ansible10
networking9
bgp8
yaml8
python8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aristanetworks/avd
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Arista AVD: Architect Validate Deploy
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:151 reviews, 36 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Rajendra primarily contributed to the Ansible role configuration for Arista AVD (Architect Validate Deploy). Their work focused on updating and enhancing Jinja2 templates, specifically modifying the DC1_TENANTS_NETWORKS.j2 template to support various configurations and functionalities. The contributions involved adding features like native VLAN support and prefix configurations and extending the data model by introducing super spine configurations and point-to-point links.
cvpjinja2cloudvisionnetwork-automationcloudvision-portal
ankudinov/gh-actions-playground
Aug 2023 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 100 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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