Amit Tiwari
Senior Software Engineer, Cisco AI Defense, AI Software & Platform
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAmit Tiwari is a Senior Software Engineer at Cisco AI Defense with ~4 years of focused experience building scalable backend systems for Industrial IoT and cyber-visibility products. He specializes in Golang, PostgreSQL, Redis and concurrency patterns, and has driven measurable performance gains—such as 10–20% response-time reductions via Redis caching and 25% faster data retrieval after a schema redesign. Amit blends hands-on engineering with mentorship, leading teams to adopt automation and testing practices that cut execution time and improve platform reliability. He contributes to notable cloud-native open-source projects like Kyverno, where he implemented image-verification caching and CLI fixes, showing a deep understanding of policy enforcement internals. Based in Bengaluru with an MTech from IIT Kanpur, he combines telecom and routing platform experience with emerging AI integrations to deliver pragmatic, production-ready systems.
4 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Indian Institute of Technology KanpurBachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Institute of Engineering & Technology
English
Github Skills (7)
kubernetes10
go10
group-policy10
policies10
kubernetes-pods10
caching9
cli8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
kyverno/kyverno
May 2023 - May 2025
Unified Policy as Code
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 7 PRs, 74 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Amit primarily focused on modifying and enhancing the Kyverno policy engine. They made changes to annotation matching during rollback, updated comments, fixed issues with the Kyverno CLI, specifically concerning container reordering and duplicate result counts, and implemented a cache using Ristretto for image verification. Their work indicates a strong understanding of the Kyverno codebase and its internal workings related to image verification and policy enforcement. The user collaborated on several commits with other developers to enhance the codebase.
policycosignpolicy-managementk8skubernetes
hackeramitkumar/kyverno
Jun 2023 - Jan 2024
Kubernetes Native Policy Management
Contributions:72 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
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