About

Ankhit Bala Venkata is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Infoblox with over 5 years of experience in the telecommunications and networking industry. He holds a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology, where he honed his expertise in various networking technologies including TCP-IP, QoS, Routing Protocols, Spanning Tree Protocol, ARP/NDP, Fabric Management, and Software Defined Networking. Ankhit's technical skills include proficiency in programming languages such as C++, Golang, Python, and C, as well as cloud native technologies like Docker and Kubernetes. He is well-versed in microservices, REST API, YAML, JSON, Postgresql, Linux, Git, and Shell Scripting. Ankhit has worked with Infoblox in various capacities, starting as a Software Engineer 2 and currently serving as a Senior Software Engineer. He has also worked with Snaproute, which was later acquired by Infoblox, where he played a key role in the development and containerization of networking microservices on a switch using Kubernetes principles. During his tenure at Snaproute, Ankhit spearheaded projects involving the design and development of networking features such as Dynamic ARP Inspection (DAI), Digital Optical Monitoring (DOM), and Static ARP/NDP. He also reorganized and streamlined multiple modules to support the implementation of Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP). Ankhit's experience also includes devising defaulting and validation algorithms across containerized services and implementing these using Kubernetes admission webhooks. This enhanced the overall robustness of the system by blocking disallowed configurations and actions. He also strengthened Snaproute's Fabric Management solution by introducing a messaging structure used for communication across multiple threads in the application. Ankhit's impressive education history includes a Master's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Rochester Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications Engineering from B. M. S. College of Engineering. His relevant experience, technical skills, and education make him a valuable asset to any organization in the software engineering, Kubernetes, microservices, Docker, Python, Golang, and web development domains.