Venkata Kumar
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkata Kumar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bengaluru with 12 years of experience building and hardening cloud networking software. At Red Hat he drives backend development and architecture for OpenStack Neutron, focusing on L3 HA, DHCP/DNS, IPAM and router/floating IP stability and performance. He has a solid history across Cisco, Broadcom and eNovance, bringing telecom and networking-grade rigor to open-source cloud projects. Venkata’s contributions to the widely used openstack/neutron repository include bug fixes, refactors and feature work that improved resilience of critical networking agents in production deployments. He blends deep protocol-level troubleshooting with pragmatic engineering for large-scale, distributed systems. Outside of day-to-day delivery, he’s known for turning complex configuration and HA edge cases into maintainable code and tests.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Master of Computer Applications (MCA) at Pragati Mahavidyalaya PG College
Github Skills (14)
dhcp10
openstack10
c-programming10
python10
networking10
network-protocol10
high-availability10
network9
net9
ip9
command-line-interface8
command-line8
cli8
git7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Dec 2014 - Aug 2018
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:68 commits in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Venkata primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements related to OpenStack Neutron networking. Their work included validating configurations for L3 High Availability (HA), addressing issues with DHCP, and optimizing floating IP and router management. Specific changes involved modifying code related to DHCP, DNS, IPAM, and the L3 agent, focusing on enhancing the stability and functionality of the Neutron service. They also worked on refactoring and adding new features to enhance the robustness and performance of the system.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
venkataanil/files
Nov 2016 - Dec 2024
Contributions:4 PRs, 57 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 2 months
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