Alpesh Patel
Principal Engineer at Cisco
Cary, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolAlpesh Patel is a Principal Engineer at Cisco in Cary, NC who specializes in solving problems at the boundary of the OS and network stack, currently focused on RDMA-enabling features for SiliconOne platforms and SONiC in cloud and AI/ML deployments. He has a proven track record delivering platform software—from creating a barebones Linux NOS to designing a reproducible Debian-based SONiC build and release system that reduced NOS build times to under 20 minutes by using prebuilt artifacts and provenance verification. His experience spans dataplane/control-plane integration, container and NOS virtualization, and microservice connectivity at scale (Kubernetes + Calico + VPP). Not obvious from titles alone, he architected cgroup-based resource partitioning for virtual routers and built orchestration tooling for microservice lifecycle management, blending low-level systems performance work with reproducible engineering practices.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of DelawareMS, Engineering Management, MS, Engineering Management at Santa Clara UniversityBE, Computer Science, BE, Computer Science at The Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda
English, Gujarati, Hindi
Github Skills (17)
sonic10
switch10
binary-image10
configuration-management10
armv610
ansible10
arm6410
cli9
python8
ssh7
automation6
devops6
working-copy5
agents4
infrastructure-as-code4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
alpeshspatel/hello-world
Jun 2016 - Apr 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 10 months
alpeshspatel/sonic-mgmt
Apr 2023 - Aug 2023
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 4 months
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