Amey Bhide
Staff Software Engineer at Snowflake
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmey Bhide is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with 8 years of hands-on experience building backend and platform systems, currently shaping Snowflake’s Cortex Platform and APIs. He specializes in microservices, Go, Kubernetes, and multi-region networking, with a strong track record in platform reliability, CI/CD automation, and observability. Previously a Principal at Splunk and senior roles at Isovalent and VMware, he pairs production-grade engineering with open-source contributions to high-profile projects like Istio and OpenTelemetry. His OSS work includes refactoring istio-iptables tooling, improving build/test automation, and migrating metrics in the OpenTelemetry Collector—efforts that reduced flakiness and improved packaging and CI resilience. As an entrepreneur he runs Seagull Technologies, indicating a blend of technical leadership and product-minded ownership. He holds a Master’s in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida and brings a pragmatic focus on refactoring, testing, and deployment ergonomics often overlooked in big-picture platform design.
8 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (25)
env10
service-mesh10
ingress-controller10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
testing10
iptables10
cicd10
system-monitoring10
automation10
go10
automation-testing10
kubernetes-pods10
istio10
opentelemetry10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
projectcontour/contour
Feb 2021 - Dec 2021
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:51 reviews, 12 commits, 16 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Amey primarily contributed to the Contour ingress controller, focusing on bug fixes, and enhancements related to Envoy proxy configuration. They updated deprecated fields, updated dependencies, and added validation logic to improve the stability and correctness of the system. The user also implemented new metrics, including a counter for DAG rebuilds, and enabled setting the DNS lookup family. Furthermore, the user added support for buffering request bodies for ExtAuthorizationServer.
envoyproxykubernetes-ingresskuberneteshttp-proxyingress-controller
istio/istio
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 19 commits, 21 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Amey's contributions primarily revolve around the automation and refinement of the build and test processes for the istio project. They refactored the `istio-iptables` tool by integrating the `iptables-builder` and introduced the option to utilize `iptables-restore`. Furthermore, the user updated the testing scripts, including the addition of unit tests for the `iptables-builder`. They also modified the testing framework to ensure tests do not stop at first failure. Finally, the user worked on the Debian packaging of the project, enhancing the overall build and deployment process.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
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