Prince Pereira

Senior Software Engineer

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India13 yrs 3 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in SDN and Kubernetes development.
Active contributor to ONOS and Kubernetes communities.
Recognized for engineering excellence and customer obsession.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Cloud Computing and Telecommunications expert specializing in SDN and container networking.

Contact

ppereira@microsoft.com LinkedIn

Skills

Core Skills

Software InfrastructureKubernetesMicroservices

Other Skills

VFPCore JavagRPCetcd Key-Value StoreONOSSoftware IndustryContainer NetworkingSDNOperating SystemsSoftware DesignKubeproxyHNSOPENCORDSoftware Defined NetworkingDistributed Systems

About

 Software Engineer specializing in object-oriented approaches to software development.  Currently focusing on SDN development.  Good in coding, debugging and solving complex problems.  Active member of ONOS dev groups and committer to ONOS core.  Hands-on experience in developing NB/SB applications on SDN controllers ONOS and Opendaylight.  Good understanding on Openflow protocol and L2 switching concepts.  An effective team player having good verbal and written communication skills.  Experience in Agile methodologies.

Experience

13 yrs 3 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 3 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs

Current Experience

Microsoft

3 roles

Senior Software Engineer | L64

Mar 2026 – Present · 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Senior Software Engineer | L63

Promoted

Sep 2023 – Mar 2026 · 2 yrs 6 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Team: Windows Server Container Networking (AKS, Azure Service Fabric, ACI)
Designed and developed load balancing features for Windows container networking as part of the new Cilium-based architecture.
Drove advanced networking feature development and stabilization across HNS and VFP.
Active upstream contributor to Windows Kube-Proxy in the Kubernetes community; participated in design discussions and community meetings.
Maintainer of multiple repositories within the Windows Container Networking team, contributing to architecture direction and code quality.
Led complex production issue investigations and performance improvements in large-scale AKS clusters.
Collaborated across geo-distributed teams to deliver high-impact networking capabilities.
Recognized with Customer Obsession Award and Engineering Excellence Award.

Software InfrastructureVFP

Software Engineer II

Jun 2022 – Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India · Hybrid

Team: Windows Server Container Networking (AKS, Azure Service Fabric, ACI)
Designed and implemented networking features for Windows-based workloads in AKS.
Contributed upstream to Windows Kube-Proxy within the Kubernetes open-source community.
Led feature development and stabilization in Host Networking Service (HNS) and VFP.
Proactively built automated test suites and connectivity validation tools to improve regression coverage and cluster reliability.
Diagnosed and resolved complex networking issues in distributed container environments.
Coordinated with cross-geo and cross-timezone teams for design discussions and issue resolution.

KubernetesVFP

Radisys corporation

3 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2021 – Jun 2022 · 11 mos

Designed, developed and owned multiple Microservices components in Software Defined PON Microservice Platform.
Designed and developed multiple SDN use cases for KPN Service Provider (Netherlands) using ONOS as the SDN Controller.
Making the CORD 2.0 deployment completely offline.
K8S (Kubernetes) integration to the CORD platform with ELK stack under K8S orchestration.
Developed tools for the LCM of K8S pods.
Integrated the intel nev sdk for MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) on OCATA Openstack with Centos 7 as base platform. This MEC use case was demonstrated for MWC Barcelona 2018.

Core JavagRPCMicroservices

Lead Software Engineer

Jul 2019 – Jul 2021 · 2 yrs

etcd Key-Value StoregRPC

Senior Software Engineer

Apr 2017 – Jul 2019 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Contributions:
Making the CORD 2.0 deployment completely offline.
K8S (Kubernetes) integration to the CORD platform with ELK stack under K8S orchestration.
Developed tools for the LCM of K8S pods.
Integrated the intel nev sdk for MEC (Mobile Edge Computing) on OCATA Openstack with Centos 7 as base platform. This MEC use case was demonstrated for MWC Barcelona 2018.

Core JavaONOS

Adara networks

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2016 – Apr 2017 · 6 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Contributions:
Worked on development of SkyController which is an Opendaylight based SDN controller.
Being part of Adara Networks, contributed to the OPENCORD project of ONF opensource community.
The CORD contributions are mainly the enhancement of vTR (Virtual Truck Roll) use case.
Ref: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/adara-onlab-sk-telecom-demonstrate-breakthrough-sdnnfv-solution-in-cord-at-open-networking-summit-2017-300434530.html

Wipro technologies

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2013 – Oct 2016 · 3 yrs 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

Projects worked :
 R-CORD (Residential – Central Office Re-architected Data centers)
Client: CIENA - Blue Planet
Technologies: ONOS, Openflow, Python, JAVA, TestON, Mininet, Virtualbox, LXC Containers.
Responsibilities:
o Working on ONOS core and module development.
o Contributing to the ONOS development community through Gerrit.
 MWT POC-2 (Microwave Transport POC)
Client: Telefonica
Technologies: Opendaylight, Netconf, Yang, Openyuma.
Responsibilities:
o Developed ODL module for receiving RPC messages from discovery module and multicast the notifications to registered external applications.
Url:https://github.com/OpenNetworkingFoundation/CENTENNIAL
 SFC and SLA Management for WIPRO Internal (PoC):
Technologies: Opendaylight, ONOS, JAVA, Python, Mininet, Openflow, KVM, VYOS.
Responsibilities:
o Development of mediation layer using python and bottle framework for multi-vendor SDN controller support.
o Development of Web based GUI and business layer for decision taking and flow insertion using JAVA/J2EE.
o Creation of custom Open v switch topology with redundant links which provides path for the SLA management.
o Installation and integration of multi SDN controllers with the setup.
o Implementation of deep packet inspection, firewall provisioning and load balancing using SDN controllers, KVM hypervisor, Vyatta OS and Openflow protocols.
 Optimiti
Client: Optimiti
Technologies: Android, JAVA, JSON, REST, XML
Responsibilities:
o GCM implementation for real time notifications.
o Implementation of Google map, Geocoding, Reverse Geocoding, location finder (GPS & Network Provider based) for LBS services.
o Multimedia implementation with YouTube, Picasa and Private Cloud facilities.
o Implemented Facebook and twitter for social media.
o Analytical data representation with google charts.