Madhav Puri
Senior Staff Engineer, Backend Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolMadhav Puri is a Senior Staff Engineer with 14 years of experience designing and operating distributed backend platforms, currently leading backend platform work in San Francisco. He is a systems-first developer with deep production experience in Golang (6+ years) and a strong foundation in C, having built networking and telemetry services for software-defined vehicles and large-scale analytics platforms. Madhav has driven high-scale data and BI systems at Salesforce handling hundreds of millions of monthly queries and contributed to open-source container networking (contiv/netplugin), implementing OVS drivers with stateful restart support. He combines hands-on implementation—containers, Kubernetes, tooling and CI—with technical leadership, mentoring teams to deliver reliable, observable services. Notably, his background spans both networking firmware-level work on data-center switches and cloud-native platform engineering, giving him a rare cross-stack perspective.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
MEng Computer Science, MEng Computer Science at Cornell UniversityBTech Information Technology, BTech Information Technology at Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (8)
openvswitch10
state-management10
go10
driver10
distributed-systems9
json8
jwt8
jsonwebtoken8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
contiv/netplugin
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
Container networking for various use cases
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 150 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Madhav primarily contributed to the development of the `netplugin` project, focusing on the implementation of network drivers, specifically an OVS (Open vSwitch) driver. The commits involve creating, deleting, and configuring network components like bridges and ports within OVS. The user implemented stateful restart capabilities, ensuring that the driver's operational state is preserved across restarts.
networkingdockerdocker-plugincontainerscontainer-networking
contiv/ansible
Feb 2016 - Sep 2016
ansible scripts for contiv cluster
Contributions:123 commits, 229 PRs, 144 pushes in 6 months
ansible
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