Tejaswini Chadaga
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTejaswini Chadaga is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over 15 years of experience building and hardening network and infrastructure software across companies like Microsoft, Extreme Networks, Brocade, and Cisco. She specializes in back-end, DevOps, and test automation for networking platforms, contributing to high-impact open-source SONiC projects where she improved build images, SAI/kernel integrations, BGP and TSA support, and robust automated tests. Her work shows a pragmatic focus on reliability—fixing interface flaps during fast reboots and adding targeted test cases to prevent regressions across diverse hardware. At Microsoft she brings deep domain expertise in networking stacks while retaining the hands-on engineering instincts of a principal/staff-level contributor. Colleagues rely on her mix of systems-level troubleshooting and automation to accelerate delivery of complex network features. Beyond code, she quietly bridges hardware-software boundaries, making platform-level changes that reduce operational surprises in production environments.
5 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaBachelor of Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Github Skills (19)
sonic10
pytest10
python10
abstraction10
abstraction-layer10
networking10
bgp10
abstract10
test-automation10
testing9
linux9
configuration-management9
build-automation9
devops9
docker8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
sonic-net/sonic-buildimage
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Scripts which perform an installable binary image build for SONiC
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:103 reviews, 45 commits, 113 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tejaswini primarily contributed to the build and configuration of the SONiC build image. Their work included fixing interface flaps during fast-reboot procedures and updating SAI versions. They also implemented changes related to BGP configuration, adding support for TSA (Traffic Steering and Awareness), and for sequential IDF (Intelligent Data Forwarding) isolation, modifying BGP configuration and adding route-map adjustments. Additionally, the user updated the Broadcom SAI versions and kernel modules.
binary-imagesonic
sonic-net/sonic-mgmt
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Configuration management examples for SONiC
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:96 reviews, 13 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Tejaswini's contributions primarily involve modifying and adding test cases within the SONiC configuration management repository. Their work includes skipping test cases based on platform limitations, fixing duplicate module names, and adding new test cases related to traffic shift functionality, including those for TSA reload and load_minigraph. The changes suggest a focus on ensuring the reliability and functionality of the SONiC platform's features through automated testing.
configuration-managementsonic
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