Summary
Deepak Chidambaram is a Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of deep expertise in networking, currently driving AI data center network automation and observability at Crusoe after leading routing control-plane programmability at Juniper Networks. He designs scalable, production-grade systems using C/C++, Python, and Go, and architected gRPC-based APIs, OpenConfig gRIBI, BGP automation, BMP telemetry, and Kubernetes-native routing analytics. His background spans multicast and fast-reroute innovations at Nokia, MPLS and protocol test automation at Alcatel-Lucent, and early research and teaching in computer networks, giving him a rare blend of protocol-level rigor and cloud-native engineering. Comfortable with databases from BerkeleyDB to InfluxDB and tooling like Kafka, KEDA, and Helm, he focuses on performance, reliability, and secure automation for large-scale network infrastructure. Notably, he bridges hardware-oriented telecom systems and modern AI/HPC cloud stacks, making him effective at translating low-level network requirements into containerized, autoscaling deployments.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Electronics and Communications, B.Tech Electronics and Communications at Vellore Institute of Technology
MS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, MS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of Pittsburgh