Jayanth Varavani
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJayanth Varavani is a software development manager in San Jose with six years of focused experience building and leading teams that make Kubernetes infrastructure reliable and scalable, now managing projects at AWS. He began his career at Cisco and progressed through senior engineering roles into EKS-focused development at AWS, combining hands-on DevOps work with people leadership. His open-source contributions include operational improvements to the widely used aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s plugin—streamlining build and integration tests, fixing version mismatches, and improving logging and file permissions. Known for bridging development and operational concerns, he excels at turning flakey pipelines and infra pain points into repeatable, testable processes. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from NC State and brings a pragmatic, systems-first approach to cloud-native challenges.
5 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BE Computer Science, BE Computer Science at JSS Academy of Technical EducationMaster's Computer Science, Master's Computer Science at North Carolina State University
English
Github Skills (13)
sh10
automation10
script10
automations10
docker10
shell10
dockers10
scripting10
cicd10
kubernetes-pods9
plugin9
kubernetes9
cni9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
Jun 2020 - Jan 2023
Networking plugin repository for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:15 releases, 952 reviews, 175 commits in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Jayanth primarily contributed to the repository by modifying build scripts and updating the integration test scripts for the code pipeline. Their work includes fixing integration test scripts for code pipeline and addressing version mismatch issues. They also added JSON output for logs and corrected file permissions, suggesting a focus on streamlining and improving the operational aspects of the project.
elasticnetworkingnetwork-interfacescni-pluginkubernetes
aws/aws-ebpf-sdk-go
Aug 2023 - Feb 2025
Golang based SDK for kernel eBPF operations i.e, load/attach/detach eBPF programs and create/delete/update maps. SDK relies on Unix bpf() system calls.
Contributions:23 releases, 35 reviews, 65 PRs in 1 year 5 months
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