Akhil Velagapudi
Software Engineer at Diode Computers, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAkhil Velagapudi is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building reliable back-end and cloud-native systems from startups to large tech firms. He has shipped production features at Google and Visa, co-founded a startup (Elodin), and now contributes to hardware-software integration at Diode Computers. Akhil is an active open-source contributor to projects like Cilium (eBPF networking for Kubernetes) and the Rust SQL migration toolkit Refinery, improving IP selection logic, build reliability, and Rust crate consolidation. He combines systems-level DevOps sensibilities with strong Rust and backend engineering chops, often focusing on predictable networking behavior and maintainable code organization. Based in New York, he holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Rutgers and maintains a public portfolio at akhilvelagapudi.com. An under-the-hood strength is his attention to developer experience—documentation, atomic installs, and cleaner schema handling feature regularly in his contributions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Rutgers University
Github Skills (18)
database-migrations10
kubernetes10
ebpf10
cni10
networking10
go10
sql10
kubernetes-pods10
database-migration10
rust10
documentation9
refactoring9
cicd7
dockers7
bash7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
May 2022 - Nov 2023
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 reviews, 7 PRs, 33 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Akhil primarily focused on improving the Cilium networking and Kubernetes integration. Their contributions include refactoring the IP selection logic for more predictable behavior in network address management, filtering out secondary IPs, and resolving a broken link in the documentation. They also addressed the build process by ensuring the atomic installation of the loopback CNI plugin. Furthermore, the user improved the Cilium Agent's behavior by preventing it from waiting for a specific CRD that is not required, improving system stability.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
rust-db/refinery
Jan 2020 - Feb 2020
Powerful SQL migration toolkit for Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 9 PRs, 19 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Akhil primarily focused on improving the `refinery` project's functionality, including documentation updates, bug fixes, and code refactoring. They merged the `refinery_migrations` crate into the core project and updated the documentation. Their work also involved modifying database schema definitions, improving code organization, and integrating the `include_str!` macro for improved file handling.
sql-migrationrustsqldatabase-toolsbarrel
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