Senior Software Engineer
Current• Spearheaded the design and development of SDN appliance data path, specifically tailored for Azure’s advanced workloads which featured a sophisticated architecture incorporating multiple SmartNics (FPGAs).• Introduced and engineered a cross-driver module for detecting packet corruption and kernel memory leaks, effectively safeguarding over 500+ live production nodes from potential crashing and causing outages.• Orchestrated the development of a polling thread-based design that unified the control plane and SmartNIC driver, leading to real-time BGP session management with zero down time.• Served as a data path expert and on-call leader, providing guidance to team members, and effectively resolving critical production issues while maintaining SLA (Service Level Agreement).• Eliminated packet black hole by designing and interfacing kernel NIC change notification with SmartNIC driver.• Achieved serviceability for windows filtering driver and maintained zero down time by implementing synchronization-based vPort referencing and dereferencing mechanism that operates seamlessly even during active traffic.• Maintained automation test cases and telemetry all the features to improve debuggability.• Recognized as team’s quality expert for ensuring higher code standards and adherence to best practices through code reviews.• Injecting network endpoints into a SDN (Software Define Networking). U.S. Patent US11190406B1, issued Nov 30, 2021
