Jan 2025 – Jul 2025 · 6 mos

• As a Staff Software Engineer in Juniper’s CTO Org, I led cross-functional teams and drove the architecture and delivery of Juniper Cloud Interlink (JCI) — a Multi Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Network Overlay offering secured, assured connectivity as a Service to Enterprises.
• Architected K8s CRDs & Operators to orchestrate lifecycle of cloud resources of the network overlay.
• Designed Crossplane Compositions to provision & orchestrate cloud resources across AWS & Azure.
• Pioneered JCI for Azure, leading team to design a performant & cost-efficient network infrastructure.
• Engineered distributed lease locks to ensure thread-safe updates on Juniper Session Smart Routers.
• Collaborated with product leadership on strategic initiatives like GDPR compliance roadmap.

Apr 2023 – Dec 2024 · 1 yr 8 mos

• As a Senior Software Engineer in Juniper’s CTO Org, I contributed to the design and implementation of Juniper Cloud Interlink (JCI) - a Multi Cloud & Hybrid Cloud Network Overlay offering secured, assured connectivity as a Service to Enterprises.
• Implemented API layer with gRPC protobufs for inter-service data communication within JCI.
• Architected Discovery Service for automated, reliable onboarding of AWS, Azure & Equinix resources.
• Contributed to microservices like API Gateway, Cloud Connect Service, Cost Management Services.
• Actively involved in code reviews, mentorship & presenting tech talks at Juniper CTO Tech Forum.

Feb 2022 – Mar 2023 · 1 yr 1 mo

• I worked as an IC in the AKS Edge Team. AKS Edge intends to offer CAPI based, Azure Arc connected, fully managed K8s Clusters on private clouds like AzureStackHCI, vSphere, etc. to the enterprise customers to experience & leverage the complete benefits of a Hybrid Cloud.
• Developed Kubernetes Operators for AKS Edge using Controller Runtime framework.
• Designed & developed feature POC of Target Cluster Backup & Restore Operator for AKS on Edge.
• Contributed to an internal suite to monitor & auto heal health of pipelines & agents in Azure DevOps.
• I have been an on-call engineer for 5+ weeks.
• Other open-source contributions
• Fixed a bug in OSS project of kube-vip where it was failing to get resource lock due to wrong hostname.

Jun 2020 – Feb 2022 · 1 yr 8 mos

• I worked as a developer of Gardener & Machine Controller Manager. Gardener is an open source, fully managed, multi cloud K8s as a Service and Machine Controller Manager (MCM) declaratively manages the underlying machines of a K8s Cluster on Multi Cloud.
• As a maintainer of Machine Controller Manager & Gardener Cluster Autoscaler (CA)
• Developed Custom Resources & Operators for MCM.
• Developed Unit Test & Integration Test Suite in Go for MCM and Gardener CA.
• Contributed to Gardener Cluster Autoscaler that balances HA & TCO.
• Defined Custom GitHub Actions for automated package dependency management.
• Involved in code reviews and software design.
• I tried out Product Management responsibilities and I
• Prioritized the deliverables by working with customers & colleagues.
• Proposed documentation standards for MCM.
• Compiled the documentations for developer & user personas.
• Offered training on Kubernetes at SAP Innovation Challenge 2021 event.
• Published educational blogs, OSS community presentations, CNCF webinars.

Jan 2020 – Jun 2020 · 5 mos

• As an R&D Engineer, I contributed to levelling up HPE's Software Defined Networking capabilities.
• Involved in REST API development for HPE Composable Fabric Manager, an SDN Stack.
• Developed, owned and maintained open source Golang SDK for HPE CFM.
• Contributed to Open Source project HPE-CLI to unify cli to manage all the HPE products.
• Contributed technical blogs to HPE DEV community.
• Engaged myself in training and technical enablement of pre-sales teams.

Jul 2018 – Dec 2019 · 1 yr 5 mos

• As a Solutions Architect, I worked on designing enterprise grade private cloud solutions.
• Proposed Reference Architectures of VMware Cloud Foundation on HPE Synergy.
• Developed ‘Solution API’ to host and manage various workloads on private cloud.
• Developed OSB API for RedHat OpenShift & integrated it with HPE OneSphere.
• Worked on PoC of single pane management of VMware Horizon Connection Servers.
• Actively participated in University Relationship activities & campus hiring/hackathons.

Jan 2018 – Jul 2018 · 6 mos

• As an intern, I worked on HPE server technologies & server platform software development.
• Proposed a new concept of Smart Data Center.
• Developed a Unified Test Framework to run regressions on Powershell cmdlet suites.
• Migrated the build process to the HPE Internal Cloud called Morpheus.
• Developed a full stack web console to monitor the server health and other stats.
• Setup Jenkins pipeline to enable continuous integration for the project.
• Developed a registration and verification portal for HPE Codewars.

Jul 2017 – Jul 2017 · 0 mo · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• I was chosen to be the student for Undergraduate Summer School hosted by department of Computer Science and Automation, IISc during July 2017. I was exposed to several contemporary research work going on in & around IISc and of course world in the field of Machine Learning, AI, NLP, Probability, Theory of Computation and various others.
• I had an opportunity to present my research work on 'Crowdsourced Knowledge Building in Wikipedia'. I was also awarded 'Special Student' of Summer School'17.

May 2016 – Jul 2016 · 2 mos · Ropar, Punjab, India

• I undertook research in the field of crowd-sourced knowledge building in Wikipedia which included a qualitative model for growth of Wikipedia, influence of edit wars in knowledge building and also formulation of reliability measure of Wikipedia under the guidance of Dr. Sudarshan Iyengar.

Jun 2015 – Aug 2015 · 2 mos · Dharwad, Karnataka, India

• I worked as a C programming instructor and taught a class of 45 students with the fundamental and advanced C concepts.