Ganesh Nalawade
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Durham, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolGanesh Nalawade is a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat with 12 years of experience driving large-scale, vendor-agnostic network automation and developer tooling. He helped found Ansible’s network automation strategy—authoring the “Network as Code” paradigm—and architected Ansible Lightspeed to integrate LLMs into production-grade automation, work presented at IEEE/ACM ASE 2024 and DAC 2023. Ganesh has built and scaled multiple strategic engineering teams and platforms used by Fortune 500 companies to manage millions of network devices globally. Deeply technical across Python, C, NETCONF/YANG and SSH integrations, he also authored a widely adopted pylibssh CPython extension and contributor code to core Ansible and ansible-runner projects. Based in Durham, NC, he combines systems-level engineering with product-led architectural leadership and active community advocacy at major industry conferences.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
VLSI and Embedded Systems, VLSI and Embedded Systems at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad
Github Skills (21)
unit-testing10
python10
testing10
command-line-interface10
containerization10
ncclient10
command-line10
ansible10
xml10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
netconf10
cli10
dockers9
pytest9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ansible/ansible
Nov 2016 - Jun 2022
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 506 commits, 1190 PRs in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ganesh primarily contributed to the Ansible configuration management for network devices. Their work involved the development of network modules, including the `junos_config`, `junos_command`, and `junos_l2_interface` modules. They also contributed to the improvement of the underlying libraries for these modules. The user's commits encompassed bug fixes and feature enhancements related to network automation tasks, showing a focus on ensuring correct configuration and operation of network devices.
ansibleautomationnetwork-configurationsshpython
ansible/ansible-runner
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
A tool and python library that helps when interfacing with Ansible directly or as part of another system whether that be through a container image interface, as a standalone tool, or as a Python module that can be imported. The goal is to provide a stable and consistent interface abstraction to Ansible.
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 51 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Ganesh significantly enhanced the `ansible/ansible-runner` tool by implementing interfaces for running Ansible commands and generic commands within local and container environments. Their contributions include adding functionality for plugin documentation and listing plugins. Furthermore, they introduced a subprocess runner mode for handling long-running commands. The user also added support to pass output file and export options to the get_inventory interface, along with various other fixes and improvements.
ansiblecontainer-imagepythonpython-modules
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