Sathish R
Network Development Senior Engineer at Dell Networking
Greater Chennai Area India
Summary
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Top SchoolSathish R is a Network Development Senior Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building high-performance forwarding software for embedded and real-time networking platforms. He has driven Layer 3 FIB and data‑plane features across Broadcom, PMC‑Sierra and Marvell chipsets and shipped production software on Dell switches including S4810/S6000/Z9500. Comfortable across Embedded Linux, NetBSD and QNX, he blends chipset-level expertise with system design—leading projects and mentoring teams to deliver robust networking features like L2 switching, ACLs, MLAG and data center overlays. An active contributor to the Open Compute Project’s SAI, he added neighbor/egress controls and gtest unit coverage, showing a pragmatic open‑source approach to switch abstraction. Based in Chennai, he pairs deep platform integration experience with a knack for translating standards-driven requirements into hardware-offloaded implementations.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronics and Communication at Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli, India.
Github Skills (15)
unit-testing10
c-language10
abstraction10
abstract10
abstraction-layer10
cprogramming-language10
unit-test10
networking9
apidoc9
api9
access-control-list8
acl8
access-control8
sys7
embedded7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
opencomputeproject/SAI
Jun 2015 - Sep 2018
Switch Abstraction Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 12 commits, 12 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Sathish contributed extensively to the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) project, focusing on enhancing its functionality. They added new neighbor attributes, including one to control host route programming, and introduced an egress block list feature for port isolation. Additionally, the user implemented gtest-based unit tests for SAI L3 API modules and made several updates and adjustments to the header files and test code, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's architecture.
switchabstraction
SathishKumarTR-Dell/OCP-Networking-Project-Community-Contributions
Sep 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:5 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 9 days
machinesocpnetworkingalpha-betacommittee
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