Pankaj Srivastava
About Pankaj Srivastava
Pankaj Srivastava is an engineer at Arista Networks with extensive experience in network technologies and software development.
Company
Pankaj Srivastava is currently employed at Arista Networks as an Engineer. His tenure at Arista Networks began in Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, in 2020.
Title
Pankaj Srivastava holds the title of Engineer at Arista Networks. He has accumulated substantial experience in various engineering roles in the technology sector over the years.
Past Roles and Experience
Pankaj Srivastava has held multiple senior engineering roles, including Senior Principal Engineer at Extreme Networks from 2018 to 2020 and Principal Engineer at Broadcom Inc. in 2017. He has also served as Principal Software Engineer at Brocade from 2011 to 2017. His earlier positions include Senior Staff Software Engineer at Brocade in the San Francisco Bay Area from 2007 to 2011 and Staff Software Engineer at McData Corporation from 2003 to 2007.
Education and Expertise
Pankaj Srivastava earned an Engineer’s Degree in Computer Science from Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, during 1993 to 1997. He possesses expertise in P4 Language Programming, dis-aggregation of network stack, data-plane abstractions, and Kernel Internals, with experience in SVR4/Linux environments.
Technical Contributions
At Arista Networks, Pankaj Srivastava developed QoS based features specifically for Barefoot platforms. He has worked on the evaluation of Fixed Function versus Fully Programmable ASICs and has an understanding of network virtualization technologies such as VxLAN and IP Fabric (BGP-EVPN). He has also been involved in developing device drivers and kernel modules, including ASIO and X.25.