Vivek Jha
Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at Cisco
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolVivek Jha is a senior software engineering manager with 12+ years leading test-tools and automation at scale, currently driving PyATS development at Cisco to standardize test frameworks across networking and server platforms. He combines hands-on backend engineering (Python, Tcl/Expect, Perl, shell) with product leadership as Scrum Master, having designed platform-agnostic device connection libraries, a plugin-based execution system, and an automated testbed provisioning and recovery suite (NGClean). His work bridges legacy and modern stacks—he built infrastructure to reuse Tcl/Expect assets inside Python—and he evangelizes Python-based test automation across large engineering organizations. Based in Bengaluru, he has deep domain expertise in testbed automation, virtualization, and HP-UX/server manageability from earlier roles at HP and Wipro. An active contributor to open-source tooling, he maintains backend work such as the nsetools library for real-time NSE data with cross-version Python support and tests. Known for resolving early project impediments and driving customer-facing adoption, he blends delivery focus with operational stewardship of critical QA infrastructure.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BE, Electronics & Communication, BE, Electronics & Communication at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityKendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan
English, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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7answers
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Github Skills (18)
python10
apidoc10
testing10
api10
json9
urllib9
data-structures8
data-structure8
data-cleaning8
financial-data7
yahoo-finance6
stock-quotes6
google-app-engine6
numpy6
yahoo-api6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vsjha18/nsetools
Dec 2014 - Feb 2020
Realtime Data From National Stock Exchange (India)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits, 24 PRs, 126 pushes in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vivek primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the nsetools library, which provides real-time data from the National Stock Exchange (India). Their work included implementing core API features for retrieving stock quotes, index quotes, top gainers, top losers, and advances/declines. The user also focused on data cleaning and response formatting, as well as ensuring Python 2 and 3 compatibility. Additionally, the user wrote tests to validate the developed APIs.
nationalrealtimeexchangestock-exchangefinancial-data
vsjha18/vsjha18.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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