Lakshmi Seshan
Senior Principal Engineer - Distributed Systems(Leadership) at SambaNova Systems
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolLakshmi Seshan is a Senior Principal Engineer specializing in distributed systems and networking, with nine years of experience building high-performance, production-grade software for startups and scale-ups. She has deep expertise in Layer 2, multicast, data center routing protocols and Ethernet software, and has driven controller, metrics and analytics features across NICs and accelerators. At SambaNova she leads a runtime team focused on hardware/software co-design and RDMA/CCL AI transport, and previously delivered observability and storage orchestration at Cisco and a distributed firewall controller at Pensando. Her background spans both dataplane and control-plane work—from line-card L2 implementations to large-scale Kubernetes monitoring—giving her an unusual ability to bridge silicon-aware runtime design with cloud-native operational needs. She studied distributed systems at Stanford and holds an MS in Computer Science from NC State, and is known for translating complex networking standards into robust, deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS CS Computer Science, MS CS Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityNon Degree Option Distributed Systems (CS244B), Non Degree Option Distributed Systems (CS244B) at Stanford University
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Github Skills (6)
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kubernetes3
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Github contributions (5)
lseshan/acid_kvstore
May 2020 - Oct 2021
Contributions:55 commits, 48 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 6 months
lseshan/lseshan.github.io
Jan 2021 - May 2023
Contributions:34 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 5 months
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