Aditya Kulkarni is a software engineering manager with 11 years of experience building and leading distributed teams across cloud infrastructure and server automation domains. Currently managing engineering at Viasat, he progressed from senior engineer roles and brings hands-on expertise in Python, Angular/JS front-ends, and scalable backend integration from his time at SaltStack and earlier cloud R&D roles. He has driven product-focused architecture, performance optimization, and end-to-end feature delivery—often pairing UI development (Halite) with backend APIs and integration tests. Aditya has experience translating customer requirements into shipped features, mentoring teams, and presenting at conferences, reflecting both technical depth and strong stakeholder communication. Based in Carlsbad, CA, he combines enterprise product experience with a practical knack for spotting performance bottlenecks and improving system robustness. Colleagues would note his blend of hands-on coding history and strategic engineering leadership across enterprise and cloud platforms.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Saint Lawrence High School
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at State University of New York at Binghamton
Software to automate the management and configuration of any infrastructure or application at scale. Install Salt from the Salt package repositories here:
Contributions:60 PRs, 6 pushes, 118 comments in 1 year 11 months
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Aditya Kulkarni - Software Engineering Manager at Viasat Inc.