Oct 2024 – Mar 2026 · 1 yr 5 mos · United States

• Backend software systems design and developer - helping Amazon retail merchants, vendors and enterprise customers seamlessly onboard to inbound inventory.

Aug 2024 – Present · 1 yr 9 mos · United States

Mar 2022 – Oct 2024 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Greater Seattle Area

• Designed and implemented an Ethernet hardware testing harness supporting VPC Networking across 400K+ servers, enabling safe deployments of mission-critical packet-processing SDN layer software.
• Built and scaled a remote NIC hardware test fleet from 5 to 80 devices, automating monitoring and access for 100+ developers and improving networking validation throughput across organizations.
• Optimized packet-path performance in Software Defined Networking layer for on-premise AWS-managed customer datacenters, supporting 100Gb+ bandwidth and low-latency connectivity.
• Devised a robust networking test framework and secured a dedicated lab used for repeatable validation, regression testing, and customer-simulated scenarios with a team of 4 engineers.
• Amazon Retail: Designed the backend system to unify the enterprise onboarding experience, enhancing onboarding using AWS compute, storage, and networking solutions for processing the shipment and planning requests

Jul 2017 – May 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos · United States

• Led development of Intel 100G/200G Ethernet drivers, ensuring feature readiness and stability for enterprise and cloud workloads.
• Drove product roadmap and prioritization for high-speed NIC drivers aligned with cross-team and OEM requirements to launch functional and performance features for smartNIC
• Collaborated with VMware OS engineers, Israel-based NIC HW teams, and PAEs to deliver secure, performant drivers across hypervisor and OS layers.
• Developed ESXi drivers addressing critical security vulnerabilities and improving NIC throughput.
• Improved team velocity by 35% through consistent Agile processes, cross-functional alignment, and streamlined release workflows.
• Engineered NIC drivers (40G & 100G) for Linux, Windows, and VMware ESXi, implementing advanced offloads such as SR-IOV, RSS, VMDq, VLAN tagging/stripping, VXLAN/Geneve parsing, DCB, TCP/IP offloads.
• Delivered DPDK-driven VF driver fixes, including debugging of VLAN extraction, metadata handling, and SR-IOV bring-up interactions.
• Partnered with VMware’s virtual switch SDK team to ensure proper alignment between NIC-level offloads and hypervisor-level switching behavior.
• Resolved 30+ customer-critical issues, including a firmware-level VLAN stripping failure impacting the IBM/HP 100G NIC launch - delivered through a software-based mitigation.
• Authored technical documentation, driver API specs, and performance tuning guides used by enterprise customers integrating Intel NIC solutions.
• Worked closely with PAEs on customer escalations, reproducing real-world workloads, validating fixes, and communicating detailed RCAs.
• Market research on Marvell Networking products for customer experience with data center admins, pathfinding to fine-tune ESXi Intel team feature design

Jun 2016 – May 2017 · 11 mos · Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

• Assisting the Lenovo Data Center Group with research and technology projects in the areas of cloud and software defined infrastructure (SDS, SDN), Openstack, Linux, or other open source software projects or development tools.

Aug 2014 – Apr 2015 · 8 mos · Pune Area, India

• Developed modules of the Wireless MP3 Player based on IoT using Microcontroller and WiFi SOC for MP3 data fetching from HTTP server.
• Programmed the blocks for decoding and digital to analog data conversion of the raw PCM data in Linux environment.
• Framed an algorithm for optimizing the DAC usage and playing the music over WiFi.