Gaurav Verma
About Gaurav Verma
Gaurav Verma is a Software Engineer at Arista Networks with extensive experience in network technology and software development.
Title and Company
Gaurav Verma is currently employed as a Software Engineer at Arista Networks. He has been with the company since 2012, based in Santa Clara, California, United States.
Education and Expertise
Gaurav Verma holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University, where he studied from 2010 to 2012. Prior to that, he completed his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering at the Cochin University of Science & Technology between 2002 and 2006. Additionally, he attended St. Thomas' College in Dehradun from 1996 to 2001.
Previous Work Experience
Before joining Arista Networks, Gaurav Verma worked as a Software Engineer at Cisco from 2007 to 2010 in San Jose, California. He also completed a Software Graduate Intern position at Cisco for two months in 2011. Gaurav started his career at Wipro Technologies in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, working as a Project Engineer from 2006 to 2007.
Projects and Contributions
At Arista Networks, Gaurav Verma contributed to the development of the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) library, facilitating the interface with Microsoft Sonic OS. He played a key role in creating the breadth test manager software for the policy-based execution of unit tests. Additionally, he developed dynamic network address translation (NAT) features for the DCS-7150 low latency switch and implemented NAT connection limit features for the same switch series. Gaurav also worked on address-only translation capabilities and developed FDL software for the board bring-up of multiple Arista switch models, including DCS-7050SX, DCS-7050TX, and DCS-7050SX2.