Profile
Systems engineer focused on networking, distributed infrastructure, reliability, security, and performance. Experienced in building cloud services, Kubernetes networking components, high-throughput inference platforms, asynchronous processing systems, and developer-facing infrastructure.
Experience
NVIDIA — SDN Team
Engineer, SDN Team · 2026 – Present
Working on software-defined networking systems for cloud infrastructure.
NVIDIA DGX Cloud — Santa Clara, California
Software Engineering Intern · May 2025 – August 2025
- Designed and built an OVN-Kubernetes operator for orchestrating security policies across distributed Kubernetes clusters.
- Implemented node- and bridge-level policy enforcement using nftables and OpenFlow.
- Exposed policy configuration through programmatic interfaces to make network controls repeatable and operable at cloud scale.
Oracle Cloud AI Services — Bengaluru, India
Software Engineer · June 2022 – July 2024
- Built and operated a multi-tenant inference platform serving language, speech, and anomaly-detection models at more than 10 million requests per day with sub-200 ms latency targets.
- Led the ARM and Kubernetes migration of more than 15 microservices, maintaining zero-downtime deployments while reducing infrastructure cost.
- Designed an asynchronous, distributed processing path for large requests, reducing end-to-end processing time by 40%.
- Improved deployment reliability and release consistency across teams in the United States, United Kingdom, and India.
Oracle Digital Assistant — Bengaluru, India
Software Engineering Intern · May 2021 – July 2021
- Built a unified Flutter SDK that provided a consistent client interface across iOS and Android.
- Integrated language detection and translation services behind a single request path for multilingual client applications.
Crayon Data — Singapore, remote
Machine Learning Intern · June 2020 – October 2020
- Built an ensemble NLP pipeline for extracting contextual key phrases from customer reviews.
- Optimized the serving path for short-text requests and improved latency by 40%.
RISE Lab, IIT Madras — Chennai, India
Research Intern · 2019 – 2020
Worked on early research and engineering projects spanning data-intensive systems and applied machine learning.
Education
University of Southern California, Viterbi School of Engineering
M.S. in Computer Science · August 2024 – May 2026 · GPA: 3.96/4.0
Selected coursework: Advanced Operating Systems, Advanced Computer Networking, Computer Networking for Data Centers, Analysis of Algorithms, Software Architecture, Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning.
National Institute of Technology Tiruchirappalli
B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering · August 2018 – July 2022 · GPA: 9.08/10.0
Minor in Management. Graduated First Class with Distinction.
Systems Toolkit
- Networking: OVN, OpenFlow, nftables, Kubernetes networking, network policy, service meshes, TCP/IP
- Distributed systems: gRPC, asynchronous processing, fault tolerance, scheduling, service discovery, consistency and coordination
- Cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes, Docker, Helm, Terraform, Jenkins, GCP, AWS, OCI
- Programming: Go, Python, C++, Java, Bash, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript
- Storage and services: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Redis, REST APIs, event-driven services
- Performance: CUDA, parallel algorithms, profiling, load testing, latency and throughput analysis
- Applied ML: PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, model serving, NLP, feature engineering
Selected Projects
Scaler — Distributed Computing Framework
Fault-tolerant task execution across containerized workers, with scheduling, resource management, health tracking, and gRPC communication implemented in Go and deployed on Kubernetes.
Zero-Knowledge Bi-Party Computation
Privacy-preserving recommendation protocol combining zero-knowledge proofs, oblivious transfer, and SimHash, with a working distributed web implementation.
Review-Based Recommendations
Product-ranking system using review sentiment, nearest-neighbor similarity, and separate product- and user-based recommendation paths.
Leadership
Technical Secretary, Student Senate — NIT Tiruchirappalli
2021 – 2022
- Coordinated technical programs serving the university’s student community and supported more than 30 technical clubs and initiatives.
- Organized university-wide hackathons and programming competitions with more than 500 participants.
OnePlus Student Community — NIT Tiruchirappalli
Represented OnePlus on campus as one of 25 students selected for its national student ambassador program.
Languages
English and Tamil (native or bilingual), Hindi (professional working proficiency), and Japanese (elementary).
Certifications
- Red Hat Certified Specialist in Kubernetes
- Google Cloud Platform Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure