Hemanth Malla
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolHemanth Malla is a Principal Software Engineer based in New York with 10 years of experience building scalable, cloud-native systems across observability, networking, and real-time data platforms. He has driven compute and data-plane engineering at Datadog and now leads core infrastructure work at Microsoft, combining production-grade reliability with deep systems know-how. A long-time contributor and maintainer on the Cilium project, Hemanth has implemented critical IPAM, cloud provider integrations (AWS ENI, Azure), and race/deadlock fixes for an eBPF-based networking and security platform used widely in cloud-native environments. His background spans high-frequency compute environments at Tower Research, large-scale data pipelines and platform tooling at Paytm, and a Master’s in Computer Engineering from UC Irvine. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he blends low-level networking expertise with practical platform automation to reduce operational risk and improve scalability. Colleagues rely on him for robust designs that bridge kernel-level networking concerns and large distributed systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Technology - BTech Computer Science and Engineering at Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, CoimbatoreUniversity of California, Irvine
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Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
ebpf10
kubernetes-networking10
ip10
networking10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
docker8
dockers8
html6
apache-kafka6
integer6
android6
css6
python6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Nov 2021 - Apr 2025
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:91 reviews, 53 PRs, 42 pushes in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hemanth primarily contributed to the networking and IPAM functionalities within the Cilium project. Their work involved implementing and refining the IP release handshake process, adding features for prefix delegation in AWS ENI mode, and incorporating support for handling Azure-specific IPAM scenarios. Additionally, the user addressed data races and improved the reliability of the system by addressing potential deadlocks and improving etcd connection retries. They also added support for the host endpoint with QoS class.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
DataDog/cilium
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
API Aware Networking and Security using BPF and XDP
Contributions:46 reviews, 100 commits, 61 PRs in 1 year 10 months
bpfapisecuritynetworkingxdp
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