Hari Prasad Velumani

Software Engineer

Mountain View, California, United States9 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Led development of AKS Arc at Microsoft.
First team from India to operate two AUVs simultaneously.
Expertise in Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Robotics expert with strong software engineering skills.

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Skills

Core Skills

Cloud ServicesSoftware ArchitectureKubernetesSoftware DevelopmentRobotics

Other Skills

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)ProgrammingTeam ManagementAlgorithm DevelopmentSensor FusionMachine LearningTensorFlowPyTorchC (Programming Language)Go (Programming Language)Python (Programming Language)CommunicationDeep LearningComputer VisionSignal Processing

About

I am a highly motivated individual with a strong desire to build products that will improve people's lives and empower them to be their best selves. During my undergraduate studies at IIT Bombay, I had the privilege of leading and working with a multi-disciplinary team of students to build Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, which kicked off my journey in the world of technology. I worked at Microsoft for five and half years in Hybrid Cloud Services and Azure Kubernetes Service Arc (AKS Arc) for the edge scenarios. Now I'm a software engineer at Tesla, back to my passion of Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics!

Experience

9 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

4 yrs 5 mos

Average Tenure

11 mos

Current Experience

Tesla

Software Engineer

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States

Microsoft

4 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2025 – Jun 2025 · 3 mos

Software Engineer 2

Promoted

Mar 2022 – Feb 2025 · 2 yrs 11 mos

Built the AKS Arc (Azure Kubernetes Service enabled by Azure Arc) product that enables users to create, scale and manage Kubernetes clusters running on-premises, directly from the Azure Portal and Command Line Interface.
Delivered the first GA of AKS Arc in January 2024 through cross-organizational collaboration with multiple teams in Azure core within two years.
Led the architecture design and implementation of a platform agnostic API for AKS Arc to support different host platforms.

Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)Cloud ServicesSoftware ArchitectureProgramming

Software Engineer

Aug 2021 – Feb 2022 · 6 mos

Created an Arc Resource Provider in Azure for handling REST API calls.
Developed CRDs (Custom Resource Definitions) and Operators in Kubernetes to deploy and manage K8s clusters running on-premise.

KubernetesCloud ServicesProgramming

Software Engineer

Oct 2019 – Aug 2021 · 1 yr 10 mos

Developed a Visual Studio Code extension for early detection of merge conflicts that occur within the Windows repository.
Authored tests for Live Migration of Virtual Machines in Hyper-V to identify regressions across builds.

ProgrammingSoftware Development

Auv-iitb

3 roles

Team Leader

Aug 2018 – Aug 2019 · 1 yr

Led AUV-IITB, a 40-member student team working on the design and development of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) capable of performing real world tasks.
Managed operations, logistics, recruitment and knowledge transfer in 4-tier cross-functional team consisting of Mechanical, Electronic, Software and Business sub-divisions.
Established an industry collaboration with L&T (Larsen & Toubro) to build remotely operated underwater vehicles.
Became the first team from India to simultaneously operate two AUVs in the International RoboSub competition.

Software Lead

Promoted

Aug 2017 – Jul 2018 · 11 mos

Developed algorithms for acoustic localization, controller for all 6 degrees of freedom and state-machine based mission planner for optimally selecting tasks.
Programmed microcontrollers to use the CAN (Controller Area Network) protocol for actuation and propulsion, and enabled real time object detection using YOLOv2 with an onboard Nvidia GPU.

RoboticsTeam Management

Software Engineer

Sep 2015 – Aug 2017 · 1 yr 11 mos

Developed drivers for IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit) and DVL (Doppler Velocity Log) sensors.
Built an abstraction for implementing sensor fusion using ROS (Robot Operating System).

Algorithm DevelopmentProgrammingRobotics

Microsoft

Software Engineering Intern

May 2018 – Jul 2018 · 2 mos · Hyderabad, Telangana, India

Implemented a Resource Provider for managing custom Health Models for the Azure monitoring service
Generalized the existing architecture in order to define the Health of Azure PaaS Resources, which earlier was only for Virtual Machines.

Sensor FusionProgrammingRobotics