Venkatesh Velpula
Principal System Engineer at Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkatesh Velpula is a Principal System Engineer with 17+ years of hands-on experience in networking, virtualization, NFV and SDN, currently based in Sunnyvale. He has deep test and automation expertise across OpenStack, Kubernetes, KVM and virtual routers (Vyatta, Juniper, Cisco), and is fluent in Python, Robot Framework and C for building robust test frameworks and sample SDK apps. His career progressed through technical staff and senior engineering roles at Juniper and Vyatta before joining Hewlett Packard Enterprise, reflecting strong domain continuity in carrier-grade routing and virtualized network functions. Beyond test execution, he architects test plans, debugs complex routing features (BFD, VRF, DMVPN) and automates regressions, often bridging kernel-level virtualization and controller integration. A former CCNA trainer, he brings both hands-on lab experience and mentorship skills, with a track record of translating intricate networking behaviors into reproducible automated tests.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Hyderabad
English
Github Skills (12)
cloud-foundry9
openstack8
testing8
opendev7
infrastructure7
controller6
cloud-native6
fabric4
istanbul3
openstack-heat2
packaging2
heat1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/tempest
Aug 2016 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 25 pushes, 4 branches in 7 years
vganapath/contrail-test
Jun 2017 - Jul 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
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