Kuralamudhan Ramakrishnan
Principle MTS at Oracle
Hillsboro, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolKuralamudhan Ramakrishnan is a principal MTS and award-winning cloud native networking expert with over 14 years of software engineering experience and nine years focused on cloud-native projects. He pioneered Multus CNI and significant SR-IOV/DPDK CNI work in the Kubernetes ecosystem, contributing production-grade CNI plugins widely used for multi-homed and high-performance pod networking. At Intel he led cloud and edge networking blueprints (ICN/Akraino) and storage networking/CSI efforts, and now focuses on the data plane for Oracle’s managed Kubernetes service. Comfortable deep in systems code (Golang, C/C++) and chipset/embedded roots, he blends low-level packet and driver experience with large-scale orchestration design. He mentors engineering teams, drives open-source collaboration across vendors, and brings the unusual combination of Emmy-recognized technical innovation and hands-on CNI/DPN expertise.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Information and communication Systems, Master of Science (M.S.) Information and communication Systems at Hamburg University of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Coimbatore Institute of TechnologyC.B.S.E Neyveli, C.B.S.E Neyveli at Jawahar Higher Secondary School
English, German, Hindi, Tamil
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Github Skills (16)
dpdk10
cni10
kubernetes10
go10
networking10
srv10
plugin10
kubernetes-pods10
devops9
apidoc9
cloud-native9
api9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
dockers7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
k8snetworkplumbingwg/multus-cni
Dec 2016 - Mar 2019
A CNI meta-plugin for multi-homed pods in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:10 releases, 104 commits, 86 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Kuralamudhan contributed to bug fixes related to clearing plugins after failures within the multus-cni plugin. They also added Glide package management support, indicating involvement in dependency management and build processes. Further contributions include the integration of custom TPR network support and network status features, showcasing expertise in Kubernetes networking and API integration. Additional changes related to CRD and code refactoring.
controlplanecontainerized-vnfdataplanekubernetes-networkingvnf
k8snetworkplumbingwg/sriov-cni
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
DPDK & SR-IOV CNI plugin
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 releases, 9 commits, 4 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Kuralamudhan primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the CNI plugin for SR-IOV networking. Their work includes adding features for Kubernetes integration, such as MAC address and VF management. They also implemented DPDK-SRIOV functionality, including the ability to bind SR-IOV Virtual Functions to the DPDK driver. Further contributions involve adding L2 mode and shared VF support, as well as bug fixes and code refactoring.
containerized-vnfnfvvnfdpdkintel
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