Amar Padmanabhan
Principal Software Engineer at Databricks
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmar Padmanabhan is a software engineer with 8+ years of hands-on experience building networked systems and infrastructure, currently contributing at Databricks from Palo Alto. He has a deep background in networking and build systems, evidenced by significant contributions to Magma’s platform—refactoring core services, superbuilds, and CI/build infrastructure for modular access networks. His career spans influential roles at Facebook, VMware/Nicira and leadership positions in open infrastructure and telecom-focused foundations, blending production engineering with community governance. A networking tinkerer by trade, he pairs pragmatic backend and DevOps skills with a track record of cleaning up and modernizing large codebases and deployment pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Computer Science, MS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonIndian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur
Github Skills (18)
build-system10
makefile10
cicd10
devops10
magma10
c119
cmake9
golang9
go9
c179
network8
net8
networking8
5g7
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
magma/magma
May 2021 - Oct 2021
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:108 reviews, 59 commits, 132 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Amar primarily contributed to the build system and infrastructure components, specifically creating and updating superbuilds for various services. They refactored common services and core components, including the session manager and core libraries. The user also updated the CI scripts and build configurations, modifying paths and dependencies, and removing unused functions. Furthermore, they moved components like the policydb and datastore, Li-agent and performed various code formatting and cleanup tasks.
network-servicenetworksmobile3gpppython
amarpad/magma
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
Platform for building access networks and modular network services
Contributions:132 pushes, 121 branches in 2 years
network-automationnetworkinginfrastructure-managementjunipermodular
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