Venkatraman Venkatapathy
Senior Technical Lead at Cisco
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVenkatraman Venkatapathy is a Senior Technical Lead with 8+ years building cloud-native networking and SD-WAN solutions at Cisco and Juniper, including lead contributions to Contrail/Tungsten Fabric and a patented CNI plugin enabling multiple interfaces per container. He blends deep protocol and systems knowledge (TCP/IP, NSH service chaining, YANG models) with hands-on DevOps experience—Ansible, Helm, operators and deployments on Kubernetes/OpenShift—bringing features from architecture through CI/CD to customer POCs. Venkatraman has a strong academic foundation (MS EE, USC) and a track record of resolving critical escalations and stabilizing large regression suites. Beyond code, he’s an avid outdoorsman and animal lover who applies the same curiosity from hiking and cricket to solving complex distributed networking problems.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.52, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.52 at University of Southern CaliforniaSavitribai Phule Pune University
Tamil, Hindi, English
Github Skills (13)
mesos10
cni10
kubernetes10
go10
network-interface10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
dockers9
docker9
json8
python8
cicd7
rest-api7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Juniper/contrail-controller
Jun 2018 - Mar 2019
Contrail Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Venkatraman's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Contrail CNI plugin, improving its compatibility with Kubernetes and Mesos environments. They implemented support for user-defined MTU and addressed deletion call handling. The user also fixed service IP conflicts and enabled support for multiple interfaces within containers. Furthermore, they added introspect support for the Mesos manager and fixed a bug related to ECMP endpoints in load balancers.
controlleropencontrail-core-projectopencontrail
Juniper/contrail-specs
Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Repository for docs and specs
Contributions:2 commits in 7 months
specs
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