BalajiĀ Gurudoss
Senior Principal Engineer at Dell Technologies
Greater Chennai Area India
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Top SchoolBalaji Gurudoss is a Senior Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in Linux kernel networking, datacom routing protocols and containerized network stacks. He has deep expertise in IPv4/IPv6 unicast, BGP4/MP-BGP, multicast (PIM, IGMP, MLD snooping), IPSec/IKE and transport protocols, and contributes to SONiC routing at Dell Technologies. A long-time contributor and maintainer on the Quagga open-source routing project, he has implemented MRIB/MP-BGP features and critical stability fixes that improved real-world routing behavior. His background spans embedded router development and enterprise switch software at HCL and Brocade, giving him a practical edge in production networking. Based in Chennai, he pairs kernel-level insight with hands-on protocol engineering to bridge open-source projects and commercial networking OS development.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.Com, Commerce, B.Com, Commerce at R.K.M Vivekananda CollegeMaster of Computer Applications (MCA), Computers, Master of Computer Applications (MCA), Computers at SRM Engineering College
English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
bgp10
protocols10
routes10
c1110
pim10
network-protocol10
debugging9
ipv68
ipv48
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Quagga/quagga
Sep 2012 - Oct 2017
Quagga Tracking repository - Master is at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 1 push in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Balaji primarily contributed to the Quagga routing software project by implementing code improvements and bug fixes. The contributions include the use of an `array_size()` helper macro to improve code maintainability, and fixing an issue by not installing MBGP routes in the kernel. Other contributions include the addition of debugging options for PIM packets and a show command for dampening configurations. The user's work demonstrates a focus on enhancing the stability and functionality of the routing software.
cgitquagga
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