Ashwin Paranjpe
VP Of Engineering at Cohesity
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Summary
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Top SchoolAshwin Paranjpe is a seasoned engineering leader with nearly two decades of experience building and scaling distributed systems, cloud services, and security-focused platforms from early startups to enterprise teams. Currently VP of Engineering at Cohesity, he has led SmartFiles and Data Platform initiatives and previously helped grow identity-security startup AuthMind, blending product-minded leadership with hands-on technical delivery. His roots in networking, virtualization, and observability span roles at Isovalent, Oracle, Riverbed and Dell SecureWorks, and he contributes to open-source projects like Cilium—improving docs and adding backend CLI features that reflect both systems-level understanding and attention to developer experience. Based in Pune and holding a Master’s in Information Security from Georgia Tech, Ashwin pairs pragmatic operational rigor with a habit of learning from mistakes, favoring durable architectures over clever shortcuts.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Information Technology at V.I.T., Pune UniversityMasters Information Security, Masters Information Security at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (11)
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
documentation10
kubernetes-pods10
cli10
testing9
docker8
security8
dockers8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Apr 2017 - Jan 2019
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Backend Developer
Technical Writer & Backend DeveloperContributions:15 PRs, 47 pushes, 14 branches in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ashwin primarily contributed to the project's documentation, fixing typos, improving clarity, and updating the architecture guide. They also worked on backend command-line interface (CLI) implementations, specifically for the `cilium identity get` and `cilium identity list` commands, including adding unit tests. Additionally, they added a newline to the proxy access log and updated documentation related to cluster diagnosis. Their contributions spanned both documentation and core system functionality, indicating a broad understanding of the Cilium project.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
ashwinp/cilium
Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 6 branches in 3 months
containerssecuritylinuxnetworkingdocker
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