Noa Spanier
Sr. Manager, Networking SW at NVIDIA
Kfar Giladi, North District, Israel
Summary
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Top SchoolNoa Spanier is a senior networking software leader with 20+ years of embedded and systems engineering experience and six years in management roles driving releases and product quality for networking platforms. Currently Sr. Manager for Networking SW at NVIDIA, she leads release management and cross-functional delivery, having previously overseen MLNX_OFED releases, Linux upstream driver submissions, and distribution integrations at Mellanox. Her hands-on background spans real-time embedded media systems to build and DevOps work on SONiC, where she contributed test automation, platform firmware updates, and platform-specific build improvements for Mellanox hardware. She combines deep technical fluency with program-level coordination, ensuring upstream open-source alignment and enterprise distribution readiness. Based in northern Israel and trained in computer science with recent formal project management studies at Technion, she is as comfortable refactoring pytest suites as negotiating release timelines across global teams. An underrated strength is her ability to translate low-level driver and firmware changes into predictable, auditable release processes that reduce downstream integration friction.
6 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Project Management, Project Management at Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
Github Skills (23)
mellanox10
sonic10
pytest10
python10
firmware10
configuration-management10
build-system10
makefile10
sdk10
in-app-updates10
updater10
live-update10
appupdate10
test-automation10
dockers9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Dec 2019 - Mar 2022
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 26 commits, 74 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Noa primarily contributed to the build and configuration of SONiC images, specifically focusing on Mellanox hardware. Their work involved updating firmware and SDK versions for Mellanox devices, modifying build scripts, and adapting platform-specific configurations. The user also addressed bug fixes related to the sonic-config-engine and incorporated new features like the "always_enabled" field for CoPP configurations. Furthermore, the user was responsible for updating Mellanox platform, adding new platforms and SKUs and updating buffer configurations.
binary-imagesonic
sonic-net/sonic-mgmt
Mar 2020 - Jan 2021
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 13 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Noa primarily contributes to the test suite for the SONiC management project, focusing on adding and modifying test cases. Their work includes implementing tests for the "show techsupport" command, including setup configurations such as ACL and mirroring. They also refactored existing tests to use pytest and integrated with the project's testing infrastructure.
configuration-managementsonic
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