Cloud networking
Software-defined networking, OVN-Kubernetes, OpenFlow, nftables, network policy, and the tooling used to configure and operate them.
Systems engineer · Bay Area
Networking, infrastructure, and distributed systems.
I'm Anirudh Rajagopalan, a software engineer on NVIDIA's software-defined networking team. I previously worked on DGX Cloud networking and Oracle's model-serving infrastructure.
NowNVIDIA · SDN
EducationUSC · M.S. Computer Science
Based inSan Francisco Bay Area
What I work on
Systems below the application layer.
Most of my work has involved networking, distributed services, Kubernetes, and cloud infrastructure. I also have experience with model serving and applied machine learning.
Distributed services
Service coordination, scheduling, asynchronous processing, gRPC, Kubernetes, and recovery from component failures.
AI platforms
At Oracle Cloud AI Services, I worked on multi-tenant inference services for language, speech, and anomaly-detection models, with a focus on latency and throughput.
Security and privacy
Network isolation and policy enforcement in cloud environments, along with academic work on zero-knowledge proofs and oblivious transfer.
Experience
Where I've worked.
2026—Present
NVIDIA
Software-Defined NetworkingWorking on networking software for cloud infrastructure.
2025
NVIDIA DGX Cloud
Software Engineering InternBuilt Kubernetes networking and security tooling using OVN, OpenFlow, and nftables.
2022—2024
Oracle Cloud AI Services
Software EngineerWorked on inference services for language, speech, and anomaly-detection models.
2021
Oracle Digital Assistant
Software Engineering InternBuilt a Flutter SDK and integrated language-detection and translation services.
2019—2020
Crayon Data · RISE Lab, IIT Madras
Machine Learning and Research InternshipsWorked on keyphrase extraction, recommendation systems, and research projects while completing my undergraduate degree.
Selected projects
Selected work.
Projects in distributed computing, privacy-preserving computation, language models, recommendation systems, and football analytics.
Education & community
Education and other interests.
M.S. Computer Science
2024–2026 · GPA 3.96/4.0. Advanced operating systems, networking, data-center networking, algorithms, software architecture, AI, and machine learning.
B.Tech. Computer Science
2018–2022 · GPA 9.08/10.0, Management minor, First Class with Distinction. Technical Secretary for the institute’s student technical community.
Football, tennis, and student communities
I follow Manchester United and play tennis. At NIT Trichy, I served as Technical Secretary and represented the OnePlus Student Community. I speak English, Tamil, Hindi, and some Japanese.
San Francisco Bay Area
I moved to the Bay Area after finishing my master's degree at USC in 2026.