About

Ayush Sharma is an experienced Software Engineer with a strong background in Networking, Linux, Systems and Software Engineering. He currently works as a Staff Engineer at Marvell Technology, where he has been for over 7 years. Ayush has a Master’s Degree in Electrical Engineering with a major in Networking from San Jose State University. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Instrumentation and Control Engineering from Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University. Ayush has a demonstrated history of working in the semiconductors industry. He has worked in various roles at Marvell Semiconductor, including Senior Engineer and Software Engineer. In his current role, he is responsible for test execution, suggesting improvements to existing test cases, and reporting bugs in the issue tracking system. He has also performed link interoperability testing between switches and system interfaces and has troubleshooted issues related to link, auto negotiation, FEC, and various speed modes. Ayush is skilled in Ansible and has written scripts for managing system and network configuration of over 30 systems, thus saving hours of manual work. He is also familiar with Jenkins deployment either directly or within a Docker container, creation of jobs specific to a task or project, and basic pipelines that fetch code from git SCM and periodical trigger of the builds. In addition, Ayush has experience with configuration of Arista DCS-7160-32CQ-R and Marvell’s internal switch with various configurations/speed modes such as 10/25/40/50/100G. He has also worked on automating configuration of Cisco Catalyst 2960-S switches. He has configuration, maintenance, and management of DHCP/PXE boot servers and has hosted TFTP and apache2/httpd services for easier web access & download of files. Ayush is proficient in Python and has written Python scripts for testing firmware and various Linux commands on devices under test (DUTs). He has experience with Arm-based Linux kernel, root file system, firmware components of an embedded system, as well as BIOS/UEFI and deployment of Intel x86 based systems. He has also worked on Ixia traffic generator for performing basic functional/performance tests on various systems having different speed modes and configuration options using IxExplorer and IxNetwork applications. Overall, Ayush Sharma is a strong engineering professional with over 7 years of relevant experience in the semiconductors industry.