Jan 2022 – Aug 2025 · 3 yrs 7 mos

• Worked on vCenter Server, a core component managing VMware’s virtualized infrastructure. Designed and implemented robust, cloud-compatible services that enhance availability, upgrade reliability, and use resources efficiently.
• Worked on a lifecycle project that reduced vCenter server downtime by 88% during upgrades (45 to under 5 minutes) via a Go-based Linux service with PostgreSQL.
• Led redesign of migration upgrade framework for high availability and consistency in cloud environments which reduced AWS resource usage and costs by 50% per upgrade.
• Built non-disruptive upgrade cancellation mechanism using secondary interfaces (Go).
• Developed distributed telemetry services using OpenTelemetry and Jaeger for cross-VM upgrade tracing.
• Enhanced a Python tool that deploys and configures a desired state of the vSphere infrastructure with clustering and storage support.
• Enhanced vCLS (clustering services) VM health monitoring with a custom Systemd service.
• Implemented secure dynamic password management of vCLS VMs via a Go service.
• Implemented vSphere REST APIs to support on-demand vertical scaling of vCenter services.
• Set up and maintained Jenkins pipelines and internal automation infrastructure to ensure system reliability and prevent regressions.

Jul 2020 – Jan 2022 · 1 yr 6 mos

• As a part of the vCenter Lifecycle team, I have worked on the following features for VMware vSphere -
• 1. Non-disruptive upgrade with optimal resource utilization
• 2. Real-time cross-appliance operational intelligence during management server upgrades
• 3. vCenter cluster services
• 4. Declarative vCenter deployment with the desired state using command-line interface installer
• 5. Slack app for automatic management of automation pipelines

May 2016 – Jul 2020 · 4 yrs 2 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Designed and developed features in Netvisor OS, a software-defined networking platform powering Pluribus switches.
• Containerized Pluribus ML2 plugin for Red Hat OpenStack Platform to automate switch provisioning in Python.
• Enhanced virtual router capabilities by enabling networking protocols on dual-stack and secondary IP addresses.
• Designed telemetry service in Python with C integration (SWIG) to export analytics via IPFIX to Splunk and other third-party collectors.
• Hardened router security by validating IPv6 Router Advertisements before configuration.
• Created upgrade mechanism for container-based routing systems using rolling updates.
• Auto-generated REST APIs and CLI from declarative interface descriptions.

Jan 2016 – Apr 2016 · 3 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• I worked on BuildABazaar Mobile Application Framework which builds customized e-commerce mobile applications. I worked on the build system for the 'admin' app which is used to generate the customized apps.