Vikrant Balyan
Principal Engineer at Cisco
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVikrant Balyan is a Principal Engineer based in Bengaluru with over 17 years designing and delivering distributed enterprise software and 12+ years focused on management, monitoring, and orchestration platforms. At Cisco he progressed from software engineer to technical lead and now principal, driving cloud-native transformation—microservices on Kubernetes, serverless patterns, and model-driven policy management—while integrating legacy systems as cloud-native services. He combines hands‑on backend and DevOps skills (notably contributions to the contiv/netplugin container networking project and netctl CLI enhancements) with experience building SDKs, Terraform/Ansible modules and code generators. Vikrant is pragmatic about release delivery using Agile practices and is known for fixing subtle networking issues (packet tagging) and adding unit tests to harden distributed systems.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Kendriya Vidyalaya SangathanBE, Instrumentation and Control Engineering, BE, Instrumentation and Control Engineering at Anna University Chennai
Github Skills (10)
unit-testing10
docker10
go10
containerization10
networking10
dockers10
cli9
etcd7
kubernetes6
kubernetes-pods6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
contiv/netplugin
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Container networking for various use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:38 commits, 16 PRs, 52 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Vikrant primarily contributed to the backend aspects of the container networking project, focusing on network configuration and management. They implemented fixes related to packet tagging, particularly addressing out-of-range tag issues through code modifications. Additionally, they added unit tests to validate the changes and ensure correct behavior. The user also worked on the netctl CLI, enhancing its functionality with new commands and options related to rule management.
casesuse-casescontainer-networkingnetwork-automationnetworking
vvb/openapi-generator
Mar 2020 - Jul 2024
OpenAPI Generator allows generation of API client libraries (SDK generation), server stubs, documentation and configuration automatically given an OpenAPI Spec (v2, v3)
Contributions:24 pushes, 9 branches in 4 years 5 months
api-clientapisdk-generationopenapi-specopenapi-codegen
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