Shad Ansari
Senior Software Engineer at Independent Consultant
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolShad Ansari is a senior software engineer based in San Jose with over 15 years building production services and systems across networking and embedded domains, and a decade of recent hands-on experience reflected in roles from Intel to the Open Networking Foundation. He specializes in back-end and firmware architecture for telecom and cloud-edge systems, contributing to open-source projects like opencord/voltha where he implemented packet-in/out, protobuf integrations, and vendor-flexible ONU adapters. Known for bridging standards-driven networking work with pragmatic engineering, he has led cross-functional teams at HPE, NXP/Freescale and startups while consulting independently. At Taara and as an independent consultant he continues to focus on scalable, production-grade networking software, blending deep protocol knowledge with a track record of shipping complex integrations. An Osmania University computer science graduate, he combines long-term telecom expertise with a knack for fixing brittle CI/build issues and making vendor interop practical.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at Osmania University
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Github Skills (6)
python10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc9
dhcp9
networking8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
opencord/voltha
Aug 2017 - May 2019
Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:150 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Shad's commits primarily focus on developing and enhancing the Edgecore ASFVOLT16 adapter, which is part of the Virtual OLT Hardware Abstraction project. Their work includes the initial implementation of packet-in/packet-out functionalities, adding protobuf messages, and modifying core adapter logic to handle DHCP flow. The user also addressed a syntax error impacting Jenkins builds and introduced changes to allow multiple vendor IDs for the ONU adapter.
hardware-abstractionhardwareabstractionolt
OpenOLT/openolt
Apr 2018 - Jul 2019
Contributions:61 commits, 81 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 3 months
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