Sangita Maity
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSangita Maity is a Staff Software Engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building reliable, production-grade infrastructure and CLI tooling at LinkedIn. She has advanced from intern to staff engineer at LinkedIn, demonstrating deep domain expertise in networking and platform software. Her open-source contributions to SONiC—adding and testing CLI commands, improving Docker builds, and hardening platform interfaces—show practical full-stack and DevOps fluency across Python, testing, and build systems. Sangita pairs hands-on debugging (memory-leak fixes, platform.json support) with improvements to developer and test workflows, enabling scalable virtual switch and SNMP/LLDP integrations. She holds a master’s degree from the University of Colorado Boulder and brings a pragmatic, cross-layer engineering mindset to complex distributed systems. Colleagues rely on her ability to translate hardware-platform quirks into robust software abstractions and repeatable build/test processes.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Mission Girls' High SchoolMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at University of Colorado BoulderBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at West Bengal University of Technology
English, Hindi, Bengali
Github Skills (25)
json10
snmp10
docker10
system-configuration10
sonic10
python10
debian10
snmpd10
command-line-interface10
dockers10
networking10
command-line10
configurations10
devops10
cli10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-platform-common
Mar 2019 - Sep 2020
Python packages which provide a common interface to platform-specific hardware peripherals in SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 6 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Sangita primarily contributed to the `sonic-platform-common` repository by making changes related to updating the SNMP docker environment to a "stretch build." Their commits involved modifying Python code within several modules, likely to address compatibility issues during the upgrade. They added support for platform configuration via 'platform.json' and fixed errors related to port configuration. These changes indicate a focus on maintaining and improving the underlying platform's functionality.
pythonplatform-specificpython-packagesperipheralshardware
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Software Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Software EngineerContributions:19 reviews, 14 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Sangita primarily focused on improving and upgrading Docker images for various SONiC services, specifically upgrading the SNMP and LLDP dockers to the stretch build. They also made changes to the build process by adding dependencies and updating the platform common package. Furthermore, the user made significant contributions to the VS (Virtual Switch) setup, including adding dependencies for testing DPB (Dynamic Port Breakout) functionality and creating a platform.json for the VS docker, alongside implementing breakout CLI tests, setting initial breakout modes, and fixing memory leaks within SNMPD.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
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