Suvarna Meenakshi
Senior Software Engineer at Cisco
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSuvarna Meenakshi is a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years building and hardening large-scale network systems, now working on Silicon One SAI after contributing to Microsoft Azure Networking focused on SONiC. She combines deep Linux, Python/C expertise and production-grade DevOps experience—evident from significant contributions to the SONiC ecosystem (sonic-buildimage and sonic-mgmt) including multi‑ASIC support, KVM image integration, IPv6 TACACS, and test automation. Earlier roles at Cisco involved optimizing CPU/memory subsystems, extending SNMP/CLI features, and improving runtime security and performance for IOS‑XE. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, she bridges kernel-level debugging and cloud networking infrastructure, and has a collegiate foundation with an M.S. in Computer Science from NC State.
6 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Computer Science at Amrita School of EngineeringVidya Mandir
Github Skills (18)
docker10
sonic10
pytest10
python10
linux10
networking10
dockers10
ipv610
build-automation10
ansible10
systemd10
ansible-galaxy10
bash9
configuration-management9
yaml9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Jun 2019 - Nov 2022
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:123 reviews, 71 commits, 115 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Suvarna primarily contributed to the build and infrastructure aspects of the SONiC build image. Their work included adding support for multi-ASIC components, modifying the systemd-sonic-generator to correctly handle dependencies, and integrating new KVM images. They also addressed memory management issues by implementing kernel panic on OOM conditions and added configurations for NTP and snmp.
armv6installableimage-buildsonicbinary-image
sonic-net/sonic-mgmt
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:303 reviews, 68 commits, 162 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Suvarna primarily focused on enhancing the configuration management examples for SONiC. They added IPv6 support for TACACS, implemented and refined test cases, and made modifications to the build environment. The user addressed multi-ASIC support by updating configuration files, fixing functions, and modifying minigraph templates to ensure correct operation within the specified SONiC environment. This included the addition and maintenance of testing utilities and configurations.
configuration-managementansibleconfigurationsonic
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