# Kishore Aramalla

> Staff Software Engineer at VMware

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

•	Over 16 years of full cycle development experience in design, development and testing of embedded software for high-end routers and switches. 
•	A challenging position as a Software Engineer and the possibility of career advancement.

Specialties: 
•	Layer 2         		        : VLAN, Q-in-Q, PBB, xSTP,LAG, VXLAN
•	Layer 3                             : RIP, BGP, PIM, IGMP, MLD, TCP/IP, UDP, ARP, NAT, GRE
•	VPN                                 : L3VPN, VPLS, EVPN, MVPN, MPLS, LDP, MLDP
•	Operating Systems	       : Linux, KVM
•	Programming Languages       : C and C++
•	Tools/Utilities                         : CVS, GIT, Perforce, Gdb, GNU Make, SNMPc, IXIA, N2X, STC, Spirent

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ VMware
Jan 2018 – Present | palo alto, ca

### Principal Software Engineer @ Calix
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Architect, design and develop Multicast Routing on Calix disaggrgated Router.
Implemented Multicast control and Forwarding data plane  based Broadcom Tomahawk ASIC

### Staff Software Engineer @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | sunnyvale, CA
•	Designed and developing MC-LAG support for OVSDB on Juniper QFX series of switches
•	EVPN as the internal fabric for a port extender distributed switch and demoed the prototype

### Senior Technical Lead @ Ericsson
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015 | Bangalore, India
Designed MLDP P2MP general infrastructure to support EVPN BUM traffic and MVPN
Designed MLDP based MVPN in-band signaling
Defined the user stories for MLDP and MPVN per agile methodologies, so that coding and functional testing can go hand-in-hand

Designed and developed Multicast RIB for IPv6
Designed and developed Forwarding Abstraction layer  for IPv6 Multicast
Designed and developed Multicast forwarding on Simulator 
Worked on SSR 8000 family router

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ericsson
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012 | San Jose, CA, USA
Helping with the development of Ericsson Fiber to the Node AMP Software
• Developing DHCP based the node discovery software module for Fiber to the node AMP software.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Matisse Networks
Jan 2004 – Jan 2009
•	Designed and Implemented Dedicated Native LAN service, a point to point loss-less frame delivery service 
•	Worked on double vlan tagging, mostly sustenance
•	Designed and implemented PIM snooping (PIM-SM only)
•	Worked on IGMP snooping, mostly bug fixing and sustenance
•	Designed and implemented the configuration save and restore frame work for line card hot swapping
•	Extended Link Aggregation module to load balance traffic based on port selection criterion and also worked on some issues with link Aggregation
•	Re designed and implemented the configuration file management
•	Re designed and implemented the data structures and APIs to scale the no. of VLANs supported from 100 to 4094
•	Designed and implemented global configuration consistency checker, ensure the coherency of configuration domain wide
•	Designed and implemented VCM frame work for inter-node configuration of global configuration

### Senior Software Engineer @ MindTree
Jan 2003 – Jan 2004
Worked with client, Cisco systems, through the design and development of some keys features of multicast switching for Catalyst 6500
•	Designed and implemented consistency checker for multicast tables between the switch CPU and HW
•	Porting of PIM snooping from IOS to CatOS.
•	Designed and developed high-availability of multicast switching
•	At MindTree, Helped train engineers in Routing and Internet Protocol stack.

### Software Engineer @ Aricent
Jan 2000 – Jan 2003
Helped in the design and development efforts of IPv6 and Routing protocols.

•	Automated TCP/IPv6 dual stack system testing
•	Designed and developed IPv6 transition mechanisms, IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling
•	Extended the capabilities of RIPv2 protocol
•	Worked on Future Soft TCP/IP stack, mostly bug fixing and maintenance
•	Developed proprietary software tools to automate IPv6 protocol stack with minimum resources


## Education
### BE in Computer Science
Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/kishore-aramalla

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Last updated: 2026-04-12