# Gangadhar Vegesana

> Pricipal Engineer at Extreme Networks

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/gangadhar

Expertise in building Kubernetes based cloud platform applications, building Kubernetes operators (controllers), designing data streaming pipelines at scale, both cloud and on-prem micro services based network management application development, managed Kubernetes clusters.

Specialties: Golang, Go, Kubernetes,, Kafka, Jenkins, Data center technologies - VXLAN, Layer-2 Forwarding, VLAN, STP/RSTP/MSTP, LACP, Multi-chassis Trunking (MCT), Ethernet Technologies, TRILL, Ethernet Fabrics, Layer-3 Protocols - BGP, EVPN, IP Fabrics, Python.

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ Extreme Networks
Jan 2021 – Present
Kubernetes based Platform application development, Jenkins, Git, Docker CI CD pipelines, OpenApi, Kafka, Rest, Golang, Telemetry applications
streaming pipelines (numaflow) at scale, Cloud Monitoring tools, Cloud Network Virtualization And Orchestration

### Software Engineer @ Diamanti
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Jose
● Hybrid Cloud, Multi Cloud management software, Kubernetes managed docker container workloads ,
Network offload, Golang, Operator Sdk Controllers, Rest API, Custom Resource definitions.
● Developed a new controller using operator SDK for performing upgrades on cloud.
● Modified Rancher based System upgrade controller for performing upgrades on on-prem nodes

### Software Engineer @ SnapRoute, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, California
● Worked on Cloud Native Network Operating System.
● Microservice Based Networking Solution using Kubernetes/Docker in the Networking domain for White Box
Switches.
● Developed new interface manager micro service for handling infrastructure on switches
● Primary Language : GoLang/GO.

### Sr Staff Software Engineer @ Brocade
Jan 2008 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
●  Worked on Auto Remediation platforms for devops, Event Driven Automation @ Stackstorm (Open source
automation platform).
● Worked on integration of Data Streaming Telemetry service with BWC Controller for Tunnel / Interface
statistics for Auto Loop Detection and Correction using GRPC (Google Remote Procedure Call) with Google
Protocol Buffer format.
● Worked on Layer 2 Platform forwarding for BGP EVPN based solutions for L3 CLOS , MCT.
● Developed L2 Control plane forwarding solutions for TRILL and VxLAN based Fabrics
● VxLAN-L2 Data Plane forwarding functionality – VMware NSX and Brocade Fabric Switching Integrated
solution for VDX product line
● vLAG/MCT - LAG across any number of switches in the fabric
● Automatic Migration of Port Profiles (AMPP) – VMware vCenter integration with Ethernet Fabrics.

### Senior Software Engineer @ IBM
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
OpenStack Architecture, Neutron Network Development, SDN (Software Defined Networking) Controller, OpenVSwitch, OpenFlow, OpenStack Neutron, Cloud Virtualization Solutions, Enterprise messaging - RABBITMQ / AMQP, IPTables/Netfilters, VAGRANT, OVN (Open Virtual Network)
Openstack MetaData service, PYTHON

### Software Engineer @ Nortel
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008
MSTP/RSTP/STP, Dot1x, IGMP snooping, LACP


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
Acharya Nagarjuna University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vgraju
- Portfolio: https://huggingface.co/spaces/vegesana/carrer_conversation

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Last updated: 2026-04-12