Nithish Murcherla
Senior Systems Development Engineer(EMR) at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNithish Murcherla is a Senior Systems Development Engineer at AWS with nine years of cloud, DevOps, and systems engineering experience focused on containerized big data platforms like Amazon EMR on EKS. He designs and automates low-level system configurations—kubelet, IPTables, conntrack—and improves reliability of core networking components, evidenced by contributions to high-profile repos such as amazon-eks-ami and the amazon-vpc-cni-k8s plugin. Comfortable in production support and infrastructure roles from his earlier tenure at AT&T and Accenture, he brings a pragmatic ops mindset to software development and testing automation. Based in Sunnyvale, he pairs hands-on Go and automation work with operational testing workflows for ACK and KinD, enabling reproducible local development of AWS controllers. Colleagues would describe him as someone who writes both code and thoughtful documentation, blending system-level curiosity with a focus on reliability at scale.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University HyderabadMaster's degree, Master's degree at Texas A&M University-Commerce
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (23)
amazon-eks10
kubernetes10
docker10
cni10
plug10
bash10
dockers10
networking10
cicd10
iks10
plugin10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
k8s10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/amazon-eks-ami
Nov 2018 - Aug 2021
Packer configuration for building a custom EKS AMI
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Nithish primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Amazon EKS AMI by modifying the log collection script and ensuring the correct operation of the kubelet. The user focused on updating the kubelet configuration to use configuration files, adding logging enhancements, and refining the log collection process. They also implemented changes related to IPTables and added features to collect Conntrack information. The user's work demonstrates expertise in EKS AMI configuration and system-level automation.
ekspackeramikubernetesaws
aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
Jul 2019 - Aug 2020
Networking plugin repository for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS
Role in this project:Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:39 reviews, 27 commits, 23 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Nithish contributed to the health check endpoint for the IPamD service, which is part of the core networking plugin. They also added retry and backoff mechanisms to the `tagENI` method for improved reliability. Furthermore, the user removed deprecated methods and added additional tags on ENIs. The user's work involved modifying Go code and utilizing gRPC for health checks.
elasticnetworkingnetwork-interfacescni-pluginkubernetes
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