Aditya Chugh Amar

Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Dell Networking (Data Center & Enterprise Products)

Aditya Chugh Amar is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer at Dell Networking, specializing in software design, development, and testing with a focus on Linux networking, security, and infrastructure. He has hands-on expertise in virtualization, Kubernetes, Docker, LXC, Linux Containers, and c

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dell, hewlett packard, cisco, broadcom, sperry rail inc., world wide packets, huawei, network programs

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2014 - Present
dell
Senior Principal Software Development Engineer
SONiC (Software for Open Networking in the Cloud), OS10 - Open Platform Software, Linux Virtualization, Docker, Kubernetes (k8s), Linux Containers, POC Engineering, Python. Kubernetes Network Plugins CNI (Container Network Interface) Plugins - Flannel & Calico Container Networking Drivers - MACVLAN, IPVLAN etc. Network monitoring (tcpdump and friends...), Scalability and Performance Testing/Analysis Kubernetes Monitoring, Logging & Alerting - fluentd, Prometheus, Grafana DevOps, CI / CD pipeline Innovation team - conceptualize and develop multiple POCs for prospective customers on newer technologies like Containers, Kubernetes etc. Technical Lead for Container/Docker initiatives in OS10. Creating & managing immutable hybrid cloud infrastructure: Containers, VMs, micro-VMs, Bare-metal & AWS Championed SCRUM / Agile development & Automation Represent Dell Networking at industry venues like Open Source Summit (OSS), North America, Open Networking Summit (ONS), DockerCon, KubeCon etc.
2009 - 2013
hewlett packard
Systems / Software Engineer V (thru TippingPoint acquisition)
- Came to Hewlett-Packard as part of the TippingPoint acquisition (leading Network Security startup in Austin, TX) - Stacking / High Availability solution for next-generation IPS (Intrusion Prevention System) - Broadcom SDK (switch development kit) for Trident / StrataXGS switches; HiGig/HiGig2 protocols - Scalability and Performance Testing - Automating Unit-testing - Championed Agile Methodologies (Scrum)
2005 - 2009
cisco
Senior Software Engineer
- Cisco's core IOS High Availability (HA) team - Team Lead for Line Card Redundancy: 1:N (Warm) and 1:1 (Hot) Redundancy; also worked on developing ISSU (In-service Software Upgrade) - Routing / Switching on the GSR ( Gigabit Switching Router ) platform. - IPv4 security ACL (Access Control Lists) on GSR platform (12000 series); scalability and performance - Test-harness based on SESUT for automating unit-tests; exceeded our goal of > 80% code-coverage. - IOS-DUET working group member - represented my Business Unit in company wide initiatives
2004 - 2005
broadcom
Staff Software Engineer
- Device-driver software for Broadcom's single-port, quad-port and octal Gigabit Ethernet PHYs as part of the SDK (switch development kit) for the Strata XGS switch family on Linux and VxWorks - MPLS, Layer 2/ Layer 3 APIs for the SDK - Enhancing cable-diagnostics code
2003 - 2004
sperry rail inc.
Lead Embedded Software Engineer
- One man army for all things Embedded at Sperry - Designed, Implemented & Tested the embedded data-acquisition system on VxWorks RTOS for Sperry's next-generation Rail Flaw Detection solution - Worked closely with Hardware engineers for board bring-up & Windows/Front-end engineers for integration w/ the Control & Display unit - Incorporated GPS information with the Ultrasonic data stream - Primary point of contact with Wind River Systems ( for all VxWorks/Tornado related issues) - Introduced numerous good Software Engineering practices during my tenure - C on RTOS (VxWorks) & some Assembly
2001 - 2003
world wide packets
Embedded Software Engineer
- Designed, implemented and tested LACP (Link Aggregation Control Protocol – IEEE802.3ad ) as part of the Core Switch Architecture and Protocols team. - Conceptualized and developed a Test Harness for Automated Testing of the LE-OS switching software - Agile Methodologies (Scrum)
2000 - 2001
huawei
Software Engineer
- Design and implementation of the Routing sub-system for Ne80, the Gigabit Switching Router (GSR) from Huawei - MPLS control protocol - LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) and fault tolerance mechanisms (LDP-FT) - TCP Hot Standby: To minimize the negative effects of “routing flaps” and transient routing loops in the network core caused due to the “down/up” transition of a BGP routing entity
1999 - 2000
network programs
Member Technical Staff
- Modified Linux kernel networking code to add Diff-Serv support for IP-QoS product called “NetPacer” - Tested the provisioning software for FETEX 150 (Fujitsu’s ATM switch)