Avinash Sridharan

VP of Engineering

Santa Clara, California, United States23 yrs 11 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in building scalable networking solutions.
Led innovative projects at Confluent and Microsoft.
Strong academic background with a PhD in Electrical Engineering.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in networking and cloud solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

NetworkingApache Kafka

Other Skills

LinuxApache FlinkAlgorithmsEmbedded SystemsC++Distributed SystemsTCP/IPPythonSoftware EngineeringRouting ProtocolsWireless Sensor NetworksWirelessRTOSEthernetSoftware Development

About

Experienced Principal Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software industry. Skilled in Embedded Software, Routing Protocols, Java, Networking, and Internet Protocol (IP). Strong engineering professional with a Phd focused in Electrical Engineering from University of Southern California.

Experience

23 yrs 11 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs

Average Tenure

5 yrs 1 mo

Current Experience

Confluent

2 roles

Senior Director of Engineering

Promoted

Mar 2025 – Present · 1 yr 2 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

We have innovated on Confluent Networking fabric to introduce a global application mesh that allows Confluent Cloud to expand to all regions and interconnect across all the three hyper scalers. By leveraging our expertise on the Envoy proxy, and integrations with the hyperscalers SDN, we have been able to provide zero cost data transfer for our high bandwidth, low latency internal networking fabric that allows us to efficiently build and scale the data-streaming platform for Confluent Cloud.

NetworkingLinuxApache KafkaApache Flink

Director of Engineering Traffic & Networking

Apr 2021 – Mar 2025 · 3 yrs 11 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

I lead the traffic & networking team for Confluent cloud. Our team manages all aspects of traffic ingressing and egressing out of Confluent Cloud. We also, manage all aspects of public and private connectivity to Kafka, kSQL and Connect clusters within the Confluent Cloud, using solutions such as private link and VPC peering.

Microsoft

Principal Software Engineering Manager

May 2018 – Apr 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Leading the Azure Application Gateway WAF team . Application Gateway is the regional Layer 7 load-balancer of Azure and WAF is the web application firewall that runs as part the load-balancer. Along with WAF have also been involved in founding and leading the Azure Application Gateway ingress controller project which allows Application Gateway to act as an ingress for AKS (Azure Kubernetes ServiceS) as well ass the Open Service Mesh (OSM) project, which is a pure SMI compliant service mesh implementation.

Mesosphere, inc.

2 roles

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Jan 2017 – May 2018 · 1 yr 4 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Lead the networking and storage teams within Mesosphere. The Networking team was responsible for the ingress (Marathon-lb), the east-west load-balancer (Minuteman) and DC/OS Overlay (the network fabric). The storage teams were responsible for the CSI compatible layer within DC/OS, which was emerging as the storage standard within Kubernetes and Mesos at this point.

Software Engineer

Nov 2015 – Jan 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

Working on Apache mesos and Mesosphere DC/OS. Have been responsible for enhancing and managing the networking stack of Apache Mesos and DC/OS. My main contributions till now have been around introducing CNI support to Apache Mesos and DC/OS.
http://mesos.apache.org/documentation/latest/cni/

Aruba networks

Software Engineer

Mar 2011 – Nov 2015 · 4 yrs 8 mos

Network stack development on the linux kernel. Designing and implementing optimizations for managing queues and classifying traffic on a mobility controller.