Abhishek Mitra
Principal Software Development Engineer at Zscaler
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAbhishek Mitra is a Principal Software Development Engineer and cloud architect based in San Francisco with two decades of experience building and scaling cloud-native platforms and SaaS microservices. He has a strong track record at enterprises like Zscaler, Oracle, and Cisco where he designed Kubernetes operators, Golang APIs for cloud inventory, and centralized deployment strategies that helped developer teams move faster. Comfortable across networking, cloud, and automation stacks, he began his career on carrier and datacenter products (Nokia, Nexus1000V) and evolved into leading small teams to deliver Python and Go frameworks for scale and logging. He combines hands-on engineering with customer-facing systems integration, having liaised with Microsoft and driven product demos and field debugging. Not obvious from titles: he pairs deep networking protocol knowledge (OSPF, Sonet/SDH) and automation expertise with pragmatic architecture decisions. He holds a Bachelor’s in Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering from VTU and brings a practical, delivery-first mindset to complex distributed systems.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Calcutta Boys SchoolBachelor's degree in E&C Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree in E&C Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at VTU
Github Skills (48)
deploying10
volumes10
backup10
migrate10
dns-record9
lifecycle9
velero9
persistent-volumes9
kubernetes9
docker9
disaster-recovery9
api9
persistent9
isolation8
cluster-api8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
verrazzano/cluster-api-provider-ocne
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
OCNE provider for Cluster API
Contributions:4 releases, 28 reviews, 90 PRs in 11 months
verrazzano/kontainer-engine-driver-ociocne
Mar 2023 - Nov 2024
Contributions:8 releases, 35 reviews, 20 PRs in 1 year 7 months
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