Dakshina Ilangovan
Staff Software Engineer at Tesla
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolDakshina Ilangovan is a Staff Software Engineer with 11+ years building high-performance cloud and networking software, currently based in San Jose and recently joining Tesla. He blends systems-level expertise—from AF_XDP, eBPF, DPDK and io_uring to SmartNIC offloads—with API and Golang-driven developer ergonomics to accelerate service mesh and cloud-native data planes. At Intel he delivered patented node-agent resource orchestration, performance optimizations using AVX512/DSA/DLB, and production integrations for OpenStack/Kubernetes; at F5 he led NGINXaaS features and runtime state-sharing for distributed rate limiting and session persistence. Comfortable across languages and layers, he pairs deep benchmarking and vendor collaboration with pragmatic product delivery. Colleagues rely on him to translate hardware capabilities into reusable user-space libraries and scalable APIs that measurably improve throughput and latency.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Engineering at PSG College of Technology
English, Tamil, Hindi
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (57)
proxy10
nginx-configuration10
computational-science9
amqp-client9
metrics-server9
snmp9
prometheus-exporter9
collectd9
accelerator9
redis-client9
docker9
static-assets9
rrdtool9
golang9
daemon9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
intel/rmd
Nov 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:3 releases, 16 commits, 21 PRs in 3 years 3 months
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