Madhusudan Challa
Principal Software Engineer at Noiro networks (acquired by Cisco Systems)
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolMadhusudan Challa is a Principal Software Engineer based in San Jose with 11+ years building high-performance networking, security, and dataplane systems across startups and large vendors. He brings deep Linux and TCP/IP expertise, having implemented protocol features and offloads for Open vSwitch, Cilium eBPF datapaths, VXLAN/Geneve tunnels, and hardware offloads on NVIDIA/Mellanox cards. His background spans threat-detection platforms (FireEye), web security and firewall internals (Cisco/IronPort), and early work porting Cisco IOS and IP media gateways, showing a rare blend of kernel-level debugging, protocol design, and production-grade deployability. An active contributor to the well-regarded Cilium project, he has hands-on experience writing BPF programs and improving CI/CD and container builds for cloud-native networking. Colleagues and customers rely on him for solving tight-schedule, high-complexity problems and translating low-level systems work into reliable products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at National Institute of Technology Warangal
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Github Skills (14)
kubernetes10
docker10
dockers10
ebpf10
networking10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
arp9
container9
go9
load-balancing9
ipv68
rdtsc6
linux6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cilium/cilium
Aug 2016 - Jun 2017
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 PRs, 129 pushes, 26 branches in 9 months
Contributions summary:Madhusudan contributed to building eBPF-based networking and security features within the Cilium project. The user's work involved implementing and refining BPF programs for tasks such as packet handling, NAT64, and ARP responses. Furthermore, they modified and created build scripts and Docker configurations, including CI/CD, to improve the deployment and maintainability of the project.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
noironetworks/ovs-geneve
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:6 commits, 3 pushes, 2 comments in 2 days
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