Ashvin Deodhar is a Principal Software Engineer based in Redmond with 8 years of experience leading the design and delivery of Azure container networking components at Microsoft. He combines deep systems and cloud networking expertise with hands-on backend engineering—contributing directly to the widely used azure-container-networking project where he implemented CNI 0.4.0 GET support, multitenancy for Windows, and critical bug fixes. Known for setting technical direction and optimizing engineering processes, he reliably drives complex projects from inception to production while aligning cross-functional stakeholders. Previously he led camera performance and dual-camera controller efforts at Qualcomm, bringing low-level performance tuning and productization experience to cloud-native networking. A dedicated mentor and coach, he focuses on growing engineers’ technical and leadership capabilities. He has a practical research background from USC, including real-time DSP-based eye gaze tracking, reflecting a taste for low-level, performance-sensitive engineering challenges.
7 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Southern California
Azure Container Networking Solutions for Linux and Windows Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Contributions:8 releases, 267 reviews, 40 commits in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ashvin primarily focused on enhancing the Azure Container Networking solution. Their work included implementing the GET command as per the CNI 0.4.0 specification. They also introduced new network container and orchestrator types, and contributed to multitenancy support for Windows. Furthermore, the user addressed bug fixes related to endpoint policies and reboot detection, with associated cleanups. They also worked on optimizing the loopback adapter creation flow.
Azure Container Networking Plugins for Linux and Windows Containers
Contributions:108 pushes, 64 branches, 5 comments in 3 years 2 months
containerswindowscontainer-networkinghyper-vlinux
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Ashvin Deodhar - Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft