Anish Swaminathan
V.P. Of Engineering at Armada
Renton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAnish Swaminathan is a seasoned engineering executive with 11+ years of experience building and scaling teams that design, ship, and operate enterprise OS and cloud infrastructure. As VP of Engineering at Armada and previously a senior manager at VMware and Amazon Linux, he has led cross-geography teams to deliver secure, certified OS platforms for container hosts, edge gateways, and telco/5G use cases. He combines deep hands-on systems engineering—contributions to VMware’s Photon OS show practical kernel, installer and package-management work—with strategic program leadership around release lifecycle, vulnerability management and multi-cloud orchestration. Known as a trusted coach and high-retention manager, he has a track record of turning complex security and compliance requirements (STIG, FIPS, CIS) into repeatable processes that product teams adopt. Based in Renton, WA, he pairs an electrical engineering foundation from Virginia Tech with early graphics and DSP experience at Microsoft and Aricent, giving him uncommon breadth across low-level systems, virtualization, and cloud-native stacks.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Virginia TechBachelor of Technology (BTech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (BTech) Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at National Institute of Technology Calicut
Malayalam, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
rpm10
linux-kernel9
kernel9
bash8
script8
c-programming7
containerization6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
vmware/photon
Jun 2015 - May 2021
Minimal Linux container host
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 622 commits, 68 PRs in 6 years
Contributions summary:Anish contributed code for the minimal Linux container host, photon. The commits involved enabling features related to virtual machine file systems (vmhgfs) within the linux.rpm package and adding the capability for installation types to reference and include package lists from other types. Further commits show the addition of enhancements to the installer, with changes to handle multiple package include types and modifications to the boot process to enable cloud images. The user also refactored core components such as the package selector.
containershostlinuxdockercontainer-linux
suezzelur/photon
Jun 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:58 pushes, 207 branches in 1 year
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