Amritha Nambiar
Principal Software Development Engineer at Fastly
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAmritha Nambiar is a Principal Software Development Engineer based in Portland, Oregon, with over a decade of deep expertise in Linux networking, kernel and driver development, and high-performance edge systems. She has driven kernel-level improvements at Intel—spanning netdev/genl, Traffic Control, XPS optimizations, eBPF extensions, and hardware offloads for 10/40/100 GbE NICs—and now focuses on edge Linux and host networking at Fastly. Her work blends production-grade driver development, container networking acceleration, and tooling for kernel observability, and includes upstream contributions to the Quagga routing suite (notably IS-IS stability fixes). Colleagues rely on her to bridge hardware capabilities and kernel subsystems to squeeze out multithreaded performance while keeping systems maintainable. She pairs rigorous systems debugging with conference-level technical communication, and brings a pragmatic research mindset from a Master’s in Computer Science to large-scale networking problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Portland State University
Github Skills (3)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Quagga/quagga
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Quagga Tracking repository - Master is at http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/quagga.git
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Amritha contributed to the Quagga routing software, specifically focusing on the IS-IS routing protocol implementation. Their work involved fixing bugs related to adjacency formation, handling of point-to-point hello packets, and ensuring proper addition of new adjacencies to the LSP neighbor list. They also added functionality to set/reset the attached bit in the LSP header for inter-area routing. The user's contributions are centered on improving the IS-IS protocol's stability and functionality.
pythonmastertrackinggnucgit
anambiarin/linux
Apr 2024 - Apr 2024
Linux kernel source tree
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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