Nikhil Malik
Principal Software Engineer at NetLOX
Gyeonggi, South Korea
Summary
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Top SchoolNikhil Malik is a Principal Software Engineer with a deep track record in telecom and cloud networking, specializing in SDN/NFV, 5G/MEC and high-performance dataplane technologies. He architects and implements production-grade control and data plane systems, currently building an eBPF-powered, Go-based stateful L4 load balancer for cloud-native telco and edge use cases at NetLOX. An early contributor and lead developer of the OpenMUL SDN controller, he has demonstrable expertise optimizing for performance, latency and stability across ASICs, DPUs and whitebox platforms. His hands-on work spans C/C++, Go, P4 and cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, CNI), and he maintains the loxilb project—an eBPF cloud-native load balancer—contributing core networking hooks and LB rule logic. Based in Gyeonggi, South Korea, he pairs low-level networking know‑how with product delivery experience from operator-grade deployments and standards-era telecom stacks.
4 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Delhi
English, Hindi
Github Skills (7)
load-balancing10
go10
networking10
ebpf10
kubernetes-networking9
api8
apidoc8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
loxilb-io/loxilb
Jun 2022 - Jan 2023
eBPF based cloud-native load-balancer for Kubernetes|Edge|Telco|IoT|XaaS.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 5 reviews, 149 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Nikhil contributed to the core network functionalities of the `loxilb-io/loxilb` repository, specifically by defining a net common hook interface and implementing LB rule add/del APIs within the nethook interface. Their commits included changes to `loxinet/rules.go`, indicating direct interaction with the load balancing rules and potentially related control plane logic. The user also addressed issues with the fdb filter and VxLAN integration in the networking codebase.
cloud-nativeebpfload-balanceredgegolang
nik-netlox/loxilb
Aug 2022 - Feb 2023
loxilb provides service type external load-balancer for K8s using eBPF as its core engine
Contributions:143 pushes in 5 months
ebpfk8sload-balancer
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