Gobinath Krishnamoorthy
Principal Software Engineer at Google
California, United States
Summary
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SeniorGobinath Krishnamoorthy is a founding and principal systems software engineer with 8+ years of experience building AI infrastructure, scale-up fabrics, and high-performance networking from zero to production in startup and hyperscale environments. Based in California, he blends deep hands-on expertise in SONiC, OpenBMC, Linux kernel/Yocto, eBPF, and cloud-native networking (Cilium, Calico, Kubernetes) with ASIC bring-up, PCIe/MCTP firmware, and platform bring-up. He has led platform architecture and system bring-up across companies including Upscale AI, Google, Tigera, Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, NVIDIA, and Dell, scaling engineers and production systems for large AI clusters. An active open-source contributor, his work on Cilium touched core BPF routing, NodePort/IPv6 handling, and operator metrics—demonstrating a knack for low-level networking fixes that improve observability and reliability at scale. Pragmatic and curious—“unlearning the known, learning the unknown”—he pairs deep embedded and kernel-level fluency with modern cloud-native patterns to bridge silicon, firmware, and distributed systems.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
testing9
security8
linux-kernel8
dockers7
cnc7
docker7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Mar 2021 - Dec 2021
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:322 reviews, 20 PRs, 381 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Gobinath primarily focused on enhancing the Cilium networking project, contributing to core functionality related to reverse NAT, NodePort traffic, and IPv6 support. They implemented changes to ensure traffic passes through netfilter and that IPTables rules are enforced. The user also worked on enabling and testing the CiliumEndpointSlice feature, as well as fixing Prometheus lint errors in operator metrics. This included modifying the core BPF code, Kubernetes testing configurations, and daemon configurations.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
krishgobinath/cilium
Mar 2021 - Nov 2021
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Contributions:247 pushes, 22 branches in 8 months
securityebpfnetworkingobservabilitytraceroute
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