Sumit Jaiswal
Senior Software Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolSumit Jaiswal is a Senior Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with nine years of experience building backend systems, automation, and network-focused tooling. At Red Hat/Ansible he contributes to widely used open-source projects—fixing core Ansible modules and adding IPv6 and Cisco IOS network features—demonstrating a strong mix of Python, DevOps, and integration testing skills. His background includes storage and systems work at HPE (C++, C#, Python, TDD, Jenkins) and embedded software experience from Toshiba, giving him a broad systems-to-automation perspective. Sumit thrives on challenges that push him beyond familiar tech stacks and frequently learns new languages and development techniques to solve practical problems. He is an open-source enthusiast who pairs hands-on coding with infrastructure automation to make deployments more reliable and maintainable.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech, Bachelor of Technology - BTech at Amity University Delhi
Hindi, French, English
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
network-configuration10
ansible-galaxy10
cisco-ios10
python10
networking10
ansible10
ipv69
acl9
network-automation9
debugging9
testing8
ospf8
devops7
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ansible-collections/cisco.ios
Mar 2020 - Jul 2021
Ansible Network Collection for Cisco IOS
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 releases, 49 reviews, 147 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Sumit's commits primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements to the Cisco IOS Ansible collection, particularly for the cisco.ios collection. Their work involved addressing issues related to ACLs, VLANs, and OSPF configurations. The user demonstrated skills in Python and made changes to module utils, config, and documentation files. Their commits also included fixes related to network device configuration modules.
network-automationansibleansible-collectionsiosautomation
ansible/ansible
Apr 2018 - Jul 2020
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 134 commits, 413 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily contributed to the `ansible/ansible` repository by fixing errors in the `nios.py` file and making adjustments to support the Infoblox ipv6 feature. Their contributions involved updating and modifying Python code, specifically within the `lib/ansible/plugins/lookup/nios.py`, `lib/ansible/modules/net_tools/nios/nios_network.py`, and `lib/ansible/module_utils/network/common/utils.py` files. Further work involved creating integration tests and fixing shipping errors.
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