Sukhdev Kapur
Senior Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSukhdev Kapur is a Senior Distinguished Engineer at Juniper Networks with nine years of experience driving architectures for 5G, Edge Cloud, and network virtualization. He specializes in cloud computing, 5G RAN management and orchestration, data center networking, and TCP/IP, and has led backend integrations for the widely used Contrail Controller—adding baremetal, LAG, and EVPN multi-homing support. Sukhdev represents Juniper in standards bodies such as the O-RAN Alliance and TM Forum and contributes to open-source efforts across Linux Foundation and LF Edge projects. Holding dual MS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Florida Tech, he blends deep protocol-level expertise with pragmatic system design. Known for bridging RAN, core, and transport domains, he delivers end-to-end network slicing and orchestration solutions that run in production at scale.
9 years of coding experience
MS, Electrical Engineering, MS, Electrical Engineering at Florida TechNational Institute of Technology
Github Skills (16)
bare-metal10
api10
openvpn10
python10
apidoc10
networking10
vpn-client10
vpn10
protonvpn10
configuration-management9
database-api8
databases8
iron8
testing8
database8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/contrail-controller
Apr 2017 - Aug 2018
Contrail Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Sukhdev primarily contributed to the backend logic and configuration aspects of the Contrail Controller. Their work focused on integrating Ironic with OpenContrail, enhancing baremetal server support, and refactoring code related to port bindings and Logical Interface management. Key tasks included adding support for LAG and multi-homing in EVPN, which is crucial for networking in a baremetal environment. These updates involved changes to API server configurations and the neutron plugin database.
controlleropencontrail-core-projectopencontrail
anuket-project/anuket-specifications
Dec 2019 - Jan 2021
Anuket specifications
Contributions:66 reviews, 18 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year
containersedge-computingnfvinfrastructuresdn
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