Yajat Kumar
Routing IP Software Engineer 2 at Ciena
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolYajat Kumar is a Routing/IP Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building control-plane software for high-reliability telecom and optical transport systems. At Ciena he has contributed to the Docker-based 10x/Valimar platform powering next-gen WaveRouter and 3000–8000 family products, and has implemented key routing protocols including PCEP, Segment Routing, and IS-IS to enable dynamic traffic engineering. He progressed from a new-grad role on the Ciena 6500 platform to enhancing modular embedded stacks, demonstrating fast technical growth and deep domain expertise in carrier-grade networking. A strong academic performer in Computing Science (4.04/4.33), he blends rigorous fundamentals with practical experience shipping protocol-level features in complex distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computing Science, 4.04/4.33, Bachelor's degree, Computing Science, 4.04/4.33 at Thompson Rivers University
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
YAJATapps/Portfolio
Apr 2021 - Feb 2026
Contributions:53 pushes in 4 years 10 months
YAJATapps/NewsApp
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:1 release, 67 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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