# Mithun Harkara

> Software Engineer at Pensando Systems

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mithunharkara

Senior software engineer with 14+ years experience in design and development of data plane and control plane software for embedded systems. In depth knowledge of data forwarding, networking concepts, L2 switching, L3 Routing, Ethernet, TCP/IP, distributed processing architectures. Experienced in kubernetes and micro services architecture. Excellent analytical and debugging skills with strong written and oral communication skills. 

•	Technical Expertise: 
•	Programming Languages: C, Go, Python
•	Networking: L2 Technologies, PPP, TCP/IP, IPv6, UDP, BGP, MPLS, LAG, Unix Socket programming
•	Tools: gdb, Git,  IXIA, Spirent, wireshark, Coverity, Perforce, Subversion, Bugzilla, Jira

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Pensando Systems
Jan 2019 – Present

### Software Engineer @ SnapRoute, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineer @ Juniper Networks
Jan 2010 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale
As a Member of the Packet Forwarding Engine team architected, designed, and developed various L2 and L3 forwarding and routing features on the data plane for the QFX/QFabric family of Datacenter products.

### Software Engineer @ Cubic Networks
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Santa Clara
Quality of Service (QoS) for IPv6: Enhance the Tellans 88xx software to support QoS for IPv6. 

Responsibilities included MIB design, CLI support and configuration of IPv6 Classifier Access Lists to classify ingress traffic in to priority queues, and QoS constructs to support strict and weighted QoS for the egress traffic, with redundancy support.

### Senior Engineer @ RGB Networks
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010
Job responsibilities included design, development, debugging and testing features in C for a large distributed video processing architecture on a real time embedded operating system , for the VMG (Video Multi processing Gateway) line of products.

### Sr.Engineer @ Tellabs
Jan 2005 – Jan 2008
Designed and developed control plane features for the 88xx multi-service routers on embedded operating system. Implemented features such as Bridge Control Protocol, Multilink PPP, Service mirroring, Frame check sequence retention.


## Education
### MS in Electrical and Computer engineering
University of Arizona

### BE in Electronics and Communications
Osmania University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mithun-harkara

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Last updated: 2026-04-11