Vaibhav Dixit
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVaibhav Dixit is a Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft with eight years of experience building and operating cloud networking software, particularly the open-source SONiC Linux-based OS for data center networking. He blends hands-on DevOps and backend engineering with leadership, having driven hitless upgrades, build automation, and reliability work across SONiC (including test suites, DB migration, fast-reboot handling and service scripts). Prior roles at Comcast and Samsung show deep expertise in network automation, protocol-heavy systems, and low-level Wi‑Fi driver development, while graduate research added security and SDN rigor. Vaibhav is an active open-source contributor known for practical fixes and test-driven improvements in high-impact repos, emphasizing maintainability and operational robustness. He’s comfortable across the stack—from kernel and device drivers to CI/CD and distributed systems—and often surfaces non-obvious reliability wins (e.g., warm-reboot test coverage and database integrity checks) that reduce customer outages.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at Arizona State UniversityBachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Information Technology at Vellore Institute of Technology
English, Hindi
Github Skills (35)
git10
docker10
c-language10
sonic10
pytest10
python10
scripting10
bash10
dockers10
cicd10
automation10
script10
sh10
database-management10
automated-tests10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-utilities
Aug 2020 - Dec 2022
Command line utilities for the SONiC project
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:178 reviews, 44 commits, 101 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Vaibhav primarily contributed to the SONiC project's command-line utilities. They fixed string formatting issues in the installer, which improved error message clarity. They also implemented database migration tasks, copying missing configurations from the INIT_CFG to the config_db. Furthermore, they added a database integrity check script to the setup process and addressed issues related to database versioning and Loopback interface handling during upgrades.
command-line-utilitiessoniccli
sonic-net/sonic-mgmt
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Role in this project:Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:526 reviews, 171 commits, 311 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Vaibhav primarily contributed to the test suite within the `sonic-mgmt` repository, focusing on the creation and enhancement of pytest test cases for platform testing, particularly related to continuous warm reboot functionality. They developed a new test case for continuous warm reboots and extended existing tests with continuous I/O integration, thereby expanding the scope of the automated tests. The user also made improvements in test completeness, by adding features like test completeness checks. The user also refactored existing tests to reuse helper methods and added additional checks and parameters.
configuration-managementansibleconfigurationsonic
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