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Feb 9, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Aditi Reddy on Advancing Disaggregated SONiC-VPP Architecture in KNE
Through guided, hands-on project work, the SONiC Mentorship Program helps new contributors turn technical challenges into real-world open source impact. In this spotlight, we speak with Aditi Reddy, a graduate student at North Carolina State University, about her work on building and validating a disaggregated SONiC-VPP architecture inside a Kubernetes-based…
Feb 6, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Shale Lucas on Improving Team Daemon Performance with a Netlink Proxy
The SONiC Mentorship Program brings contributors and mentors together to work on practical technical challenges and strengthen the open networking ecosystem. In this spotlight, we speak with Shale Lucas, a student at The City College of New York, about his work on improving team daemon performance by implementing a proxy…
Feb 4, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Gaurav Nagesh on Enhancing Redis Access Efficiency and Robustness in SONiC
Through hands-on collaboration with experienced mentors, the SONiC Mentorship Program empowers contributors to address real-world challenges and advance open networking technologies. In this spotlight, we speak with Gaurav Nagesh, a graduate student from Illinois Tech, about his work on improving Redis performance and stability across SONiC platform daemons, helping make…
Feb 2, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Prathyusha Bathula on Expanding Community Testbeds with cSONiC
Through the SONiC Mentorship Program, contributors collaborate with experienced mentors to solve real-world technical challenges and help advance the open networking ecosystem. In this spotlight, we speak with Prathyusha Bathula about her work on adding cSONiC support to the SONiC community testbed, helping reduce external dependencies and simplify testbed deployment…
Jan 30, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Meghana Ambalathingal on Improving Test Flakiness and Runtime in sonic-swss
The SONiC Mentorship Program brings together new SONiC contributors and mentors to work hands-on on real-world technical challenges and strengthen the open networking community. In this spotlight, we speak with Meghana Ambalathingal, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, about her work on improving test speed, reliability, and determinism in the sonic-swss…
Jan 29, 2026
SONiC Mentorship Spotlight: Kalyan Pullela on Advancing Dataplane Testing with SONiC-Alpine
As part of the SONiC Mentorship Program, contributors work closely with experienced mentors to tackle real-world technical challenges and strengthen the open networking ecosystem. In this spotlight, we speak with Kalyan Pullela, a first-year PhD student at Oklahoma State University, about his work on integrating SONiC-alpine dataplane testing into SONiC’s…
