About

Gagandeep Aggarwal is a seasoned software engineer with over 10 years of experience in Quality, Automation, and DevOps. He is currently a Member of Technical Staff at Cerebras Systems, where he continues to showcase his passion for software development. Gagandeep is an automation enthusiast who finds it satisfying to break stuff, find bugs in systems, build CI/CD pipelines, tools, automation frameworks, and application stacks that improve the productivity of entire companies. Gagandeep has worked with several companies, including Cohesity and Nicira, where he contributed to major products and features such as ESX, ESXi, CVP Hypervisor, VMware vSphere, VMware vShield Manager, VMware vShield Edge - Gateway Services, VMware Virtual SAN: Software-defined Storage, VMware NSX: Software-defined Networking, VXLAN, Logical Router, Bridging - VXLAN to VLAN, VMware Virtual Distributed Switch - LACPv1, LACPv2, Backup Restore, Teaming and failover, and VMKernel Networking - TCPIP Stack, Pktcap-uw, VDL2. He was part of the core team of five engineers who designed, implemented, enhanced, and guided 200+ engineers over five years to use the automation framework at Cohesity. Gagandeep designed the framework such that it easily integrated Java product library, REST-based library, product CLI, Python library, XML, JSON, YAML under one single framework. He also found over 500 bugs in the first release of VMware NSX and supported five data paths, seven management paths, four UI backend, and three UI developers in the first release of VMware NSX. Gagandeep holds a Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from Sardar Patel Institute of Technology. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Test, SDET, DevOps, UI, CI/CD, Senior Software Engineer, Infra, QA, Backend, Python, Java, and Integration. With 13.69 years of relevant experience, Gagandeep is a valuable asset to any team looking to improve their software development processes.