Aswin Suryanarayanan
Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolAswin Suryanarayanan is a Principal Software Engineer with 10 years of experience specializing in software-defined networking, Kubernetes, and OpenShift, currently driving cluster interconnectivity work at Red Hat. He has deep hands-on expertise building and operating multi-cluster networking (Submariner) and has contributed backend and DevOps improvements such as health-checking and gateway reliability for cross-cloud OpenShift deployments. His background spans telecommunications and carrier-grade networking at Cisco, HPE, and Huawei, giving him a strong foundation in L2/L3 protocols, NMS/EMS, and cloud integrations. Comfortable in both C++ and Java ecosystems, he pairs protocol-level insight with cloud-native patterns to solve complex connectivity and provisioning challenges. Based in Guelph, Ontario, he brings a pragmatic open-source mindset—shaping production-ready features in widely used projects that enable real-world multi-cloud Kubernetes connectivity.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceHigher Secondary Higher Secondary, Higher Secondary Higher Secondary at PMGHSS, Palakkad, Kerala.BTech BTech Computer Science and Engineering, BTech BTech Computer Science and Engineering at Government Engineering College Thrissur, Kerala
Github Skills (7)
health-check10
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
api-design9
iptables9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
submariner-io/submariner
May 2019 - Oct 2022
Networking component for interconnecting Pods and Services across Kubernetes clusters.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:421 reviews, 43 commits, 94 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Aswin primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and API of the Submariner project. Their work involved modifying data structures (LatencySpec, LatencyRTTSpec, etc.) and implementing health check functionality, which included adding health check IPs and pinging to check remote gateway status. The user refactored existing code and added logic to create and manage healthchecker pingers. They also addressed several bug fixes related to health checks and connection status.
clusterskubernetes-clustersk8skubernetesmatter
aswinsuryan/submariner-website
Mar 2020 - Feb 2025
This is the submariner website source code (hugo based).
Contributions:170 pushes, 46 branches in 5 years
hugohugo-theme
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