Nitish Malhotra
Staff Software Engineer at Veeam Software
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolNitish Malhotra is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and orchestration tooling, currently driving platform engineering for Veeam’s Data Cloud in San Diego. He specializes in Kubernetes, operators, Istio service mesh, and Go-based infrastructure, with a track record of designing scalable architectures for video, synthetic data, and telecom 5G workloads. At Apple and Microsoft he led migrations, eBPF-powered container networking, and a cloud-native observability platform, plus a cross-company release orchestrator (Orkestra) that he evangelized at KubeCon. He is an active open-source contributor who repeatedly bridges product needs and upstream projects—having worked directly with Envoy, Istio, CertManager and others—to harden security and observability in production. Nitish combines low-level datapath and embedded-systems pedigree with modern cloud practices, enabling performant, secure distributed systems at scale. He holds an MS from the University of Pennsylvania and is known for turning complex compliance and networking requirements into auditable, developer-friendly automation.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BE (Hons.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering, BE (Hons.) Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Birla Institute of Technology and Science, DubaiMasters of Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Masters of Science Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of Pennsylvania
English, Hindi
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Github Skills (186)
api-management10
redislabs10
ebpf10
http10
ipfs10
bpf10
security10
consul10
internal-developer-platform10
rejson10
microservices10
cloud-native10
load-testing10
k8s10
opa10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
nitishm/vegeta-server
Jan 2019 - Jul 2019
A RESTful API server for vegeta, a load testing tool written in Go.
Contributions:1 release, 33 commits, 60 PRs in 5 months
gorestrestful-apitestingload-testing
affirmednetworks/kubecon-eu-2020
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Contributions:20 commits in 9 days
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