Srikanth Keesara
Software Engineer at Nokia
Tewksbury, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSrikanth Keesara is a seasoned software engineer and networking architect with over two decades of experience building carrier and enterprise switching platforms, currently contributing to Nokia’s networking OS. He has led delivery of widely deployed Ethernet fabric, campus core and virtualization solutions—driving replacements of legacy protocol stacks with streamlined SPB/IS-IS designs—and holds numerous patents for pragmatic innovations. Srikanth has repeatedly guided large R&D programs from concept to production, including flagship deployments at Avaya and Nortel, and brings hands-on firmware-to-system-level expertise from embedded DSP to modern network OS design. Based in Tewksbury, MA, he blends deep standards-level knowledge with team-building and mentoring skills, and is known for solving real-world connectivity problems rather than academic exercises.
6 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
M.E., Communication Engineering, M.E., Communication Engineering at Indian Institute of Science (IISc)Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Github Skills (5)
abstraction10
sonic10
networking10
switch10
binary-image9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
skeesara-nokia/SONiC
Jun 2020 - Apr 2024
Landing page for Software for Open Networking in the Cloud (SONiC) - http://azure.github.io/SONiC/
Contributions:2 PRs, 65 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 10 months
networkingsonicazure
opencomputeproject/SAI
May 2020 - Apr 2025
Switch Abstraction Interface
Contributions:5 reviews, 12 comments in 4 years 11 months
switchabstraction
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