Sandip Shah
Senior Director And Software Architect at Arista Networks
Paris, Ile-de-France, United States
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Top SchoolSandip Shah is a seasoned software architect and technology leader with 13+ years delivering large-scale networking and observability platforms, currently leading a 40+ engineer global team at Arista to build AI-driven, multi-vendor AIOps for self-diagnostics and self-heal network operations. He has held senior technical leadership roles at VMware, Big Switch, and Juniper, spanning SaaS and on-prem analytics, data-plane engineering, and monitoring fabrics that reduce MTTR through reactive to prescriptive workflows. A hands-on engineer at heart, Sandip contributes to low-level open-source C projects such as nanomsg and Criterion, with a track record of improving memory safety, test infrastructure, and smart-pointer ergonomics—skills that inform his systems-level designs. Based in Paris and educated in Mumbai and Kentucky, he blends rigorous low-level programming expertise with strategic product architecture to operationalize AI for networking at scale.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of KentuckyBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Mumbai
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
c-language10
windows10
memory-management10
testing10
test-framework10
build-system10
smart-pointers10
c-programming10
c1110
c1710
cprogramming-language10
test-automation10
network-programming9
unix-socket8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
Snaipe/Criterion
Jan 2015 - Oct 2022
A cross-platform C and C++ unit testing framework for the 21st century
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:34 releases, 25 reviews, 1373 commits in 7 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Sandip primarily contributed to Criterion, a cross-platform C and C++ unit testing framework, by implementing new assertion APIs, notably adding support for comparing values with epsilon, strings, and arrays. They focused on extending the framework's testing capabilities by adding support for testing exceptions and implementing a more flexible test data generation approach. Their contributions also encompassed bug fixes and refactoring, showcasing a focus on improving the reliability and user experience of the testing framework.
cpptesting-frameworktestingunit-testing-frameworkc-plus-plus
Snaipe/libcsptr
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Smart pointers for the (GNU) C programming language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 144 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sandip primarily contributed to the development of smart pointers for C programming. Their work involved implementing smart pointer functionality, adding a build system, and improving error handling. They also refactored the code to separate shared pointer metadata from unique pointers, potentially to reduce allocation size. The user's commits reflect a focus on memory management and low-level programming techniques.
c-programmingc-programming-languagegnupointerspointer
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