Amal Cyriac

Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India3 yrs 9 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

1st Prize in AWS DeepRacer Championship 2024
1st rank in CODE STAKES 2020
Expertise in Linux kernel and networking

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Infrastructure Engineer with expertise in Distributed Systems and Networking.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed Systems EngineeringNetworkingEncryption

Other Skills

DPU programmingRDMAeBPFGoC++PythonLinuxOperating SystemsCFull Stack Web DevelopmentPrometheus.ioGrafanaPostgreSQLGinSoftware Development

About

Being a Software Engineer in the Distributed Systems Engineering team, I help develop and debug ACI N9K enterprise devices, taking care of low level Linux kernel crashes, network stack and load balancing ensuring high performance, reliability and scalability of the Nexus OS for our customers. My primary toolkit includes C/C++, Go, eBPF, Bash and Python. I enjoy upskilling through hands-on challenges - from building internal tools to competing in engineering contests. I was fortunate to win 1st Prize in company-wide AWS DeepRacer Championship 2024, which pushed me to apply my Machine learning knowledge under time pressure. I graduated with a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science and Engineering from National Institute of Technology Calicut in 2022, where I honed my skills in various programming languages and frameworks, such as Django, Python, Javascript, SQL and Machine Learning. I also participated in several competitions, where I demonstrated my problem-solving abilities and earned 1st rank in CODE STAKES 2020. I am always eager to learn new technologies and techniques, and to connect with passionate individuals and companies shaping the future of software.

Experience

3 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 2 mos

Average Tenure

7 mos

Current Experience

Microsoft

Software Engineer 2

Nov 2025 – Present · 7 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

DPU programming, RDMA

DPU programmingRDMADistributed Systems EngineeringNetworking

Cisco

3 roles

Software Engineer II

Promoted

Sep 2024 – Nov 2025 · 1 yr 2 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Part of the Distributed Systems Engineering team, developing and debugging Cisco’s ACI N9K devices.
Worked on eBPF with Go/Golang for detecting delays in processing, monitoring and collecting information in both kernel and user space. Developed a real-time memory leak detector tool with time-graph.
Implemented Dynamic load balancing by programming hardware registers using internal SDK framework (C++). Used Python to detect inconsistencies between components to
accelerate development.
Made logging APIs for libraries using C, giving more control to the components. Added real-time cpu/memory checks for intensive logs, thereby solving the intermittent kernel crashes in dev-environment.
Debugged linux kernel crashes in Customer devices and testing phases, conducting post-mortem analysis using tools like drgn, making the Nexus OS more stable. Also debugged bootup issues, tcp connection issues, IP-layer encryption etc.
Wrote Bash scripts to profile components, automate repetitive tasks, later utilized as internal tools, streamlining workflows and increasing team productivity.

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