Meera Nataraja
Senior Software Engineer at Apple
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMeera Nataraja is a Senior Software Engineer in San Jose with 12 years of experience building high-scale networking and edge systems, currently leading security and secret management architectures at Apple. She combines deep systems programming expertise in Go, C, Python and Perl with hands-on knowledge of Kubernetes, containers, Prometheus, Splunk and Saltstack to deliver zero-trust, self-service onboarding and global secret lifecycle solutions for distributed services. Her background includes designing petabyte-scale CDN caching and global load balancing, and earlier work on router OS features and security protocols at Cisco and Nortel. An active contributor to Apache Traffic Server, she has improved core proxy tooling and header handling—demonstrating a strong grasp of HTTP internals and high-performance I/O. Meera pairs rigorous performance testing and low-level debugging practices with cross-functional leadership to turn complex security requirements into production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MS Networking, MS Networking at San José State UniversityBE Electronics and communication, BE Electronics and communication at National Institute of Engineering, Visvesvaraya Technological University.
English, Hindi, Kannada
Github Skills (12)
command-line-tool10
proxy10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
http9
apache9
disk-cache9
object-cache9
web-cache9
memory-cache9
caching9
documentation7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Jul 2014 - Oct 2021
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:14 commits, 12 PRs, 7 comments in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Meera primarily contributed to the core functionality of Apache Traffic Server, focusing on enhancing the `traffic_line` and developing the `traffic_via` command-line tools. The user implemented features like decoding and interpreting the Via header, as well as refactoring code to improve modularity. Additionally, the user addressed bugs and made minor improvements to documentation. These commits demonstrate a strong understanding of the internal workings and configuration of the Traffic Server.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
meeramn/trafficserver
Jan 2015 - Oct 2021
Mirror of Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:28 pushes, 16 branches in 6 years 10 months
javahttpdapachetraffic
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