Sneha Nayak
About Sneha Nayak
Sneha Nayak is a Team Lead in Technical Services at Arista Networks and a Senior Network Engineer at Cloudflare, with a background in Electrical Engineering and extensive experience in network engineering and automation.
Education and Expertise
Sneha Nayak has an extensive educational background in Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications. She earned a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering with minors in Networking from the University of Pennsylvania between 2013 and 2015. Prior to that, she completed a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics and Telecommunication from the University of Mumbai, S.I.E.S., from 2009 to 2013.
Career at Arista Networks
Sneha Nayak is currently working at Arista Networks as a Team Lead in Technical Services. She has been in this role since 2017, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her responsibilities include but are not limited to automating configuration generation for multi-vendor datacenters using Python scripts and building modules for dynamically updating configurations on multivendor operating systems with SaltStack automation.
Role at Cloudflare
Sneha Nayak joined Cloudflare in 2021 as a Senior Network Engineer. Her work includes developing, coding, and deploying telemetry tools for network monitoring and alerting. Additionally, she focuses on creating and maintaining documentation to facilitate the operation and maintenance of datacenter networks, and on triaging and isolating faults for network issues to implement resolutions.
Previous Experience at Cisco
Before her current roles, Sneha Nayak worked as a Customer Support Engineer at Cisco within the Customer Advocacy Technical Solutions (CATS) team. From 2016 to 2017, she was based in the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area, where she handled customer support and resolved technical issues.
Network Engineering at City of Charlottesville
Sneha Nayak was a Network Engineer at the City of Charlottesville from 2015 to 2016. In this role, which lasted for approximately 10 months, she was responsible for various network engineering tasks, contributing to maintaining and improving municipal networking infrastructures in the Charlottesville, Virginia Area.