Amit Krishnan
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Krishnan is a software development manager based in California with 10 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems, currently leading global teams at AWS Aurora. He progressed from individual contributor roles at AWS to management, bringing deep hands-on expertise in storage, containerization, and platform compatibility from prior engineering roles at Oracle and Couchbase. Amit has notable open-source contributions adapting the Docker Engine (moby/moby) to Solaris, demonstrating low-level systems work across libnetwork, daemon, and platform-specific integration. His background in embedded systems and research from Carnegie Mellon underpins a practical engineering approach that bridges kernel- and cloud-level concerns. Colleagues rely on him for delivering scalable, production-grade services while mentoring teams to operationalize complex distributed designs.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bombay Scottish SchoolB.E. Instrumentation, B.E. Instrumentation at University of MumbaiMasters of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering, Masters of Science Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon UniversityB.E Instrumentation, B.E Instrumentation at VESIT
english, german, hindi,
Github Skills (13)
dependency-management10
container10
docker10
go10
lib10
solaris10
dockers10
devops9
c119
c179
system-administration9
build-system8
golang8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
moby/moby
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:13 commits, 12 PRs, 82 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Amit Krishnan's contributions primarily focus on adapting the Docker Engine (moby/moby) to function correctly on Solaris. This includes porting code, fixing build issues, and modifying existing functionalities to align with Solaris's system architecture. The user's work involved changes to libnetwork, pkg/term, and daemon components. Several commits address platform-specific dependencies and configurations, showcasing a focus on system compatibility.
containerscollaborative-projectgolangcontainer-ecosystemdocker
amitkris/libnetwork
Mar 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:12 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
networkingdocker
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