Pardhakeswar Pacha
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Platform
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPardhakeswar Pacha is a Senior Software Engineer on NVIDIA’s cloud networking team with seven years of experience building system-level, cloud-native networking and virtualization solutions. He designs and implements features for the OVN-Kubernetes CNI to support AI infrastructure and cloud gaming, and has contributed operational improvements and monitoring to the popular ovn-kubernetes project. An alumnus of IIT Guwahati and NC State (MS in Computer Systems & Networks), he brings deep expertise in system virtualization, KVM/QEMU, RDMA/InfiniBand, and network switch platform bring-up from a prior role at Cisco. Comfortable across Golang, C/C++, Python and automation tooling like Ansible and Kubernetes, he blends low-level kernel/driver work with cloud deployment and observability. Notably, his background includes offloading erasure-coding work to smart NICs and measuring real-world CPU/throughput tradeoffs—evidence of a pragmatic approach to performance-driven systems engineering. Based in California, he focuses on reliable, automated infrastructure that bridges hardware acceleration and scalable cloud orchestration.
7 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology, GuwahatiMasters degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 3.83, Masters degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, 3.83 at North Carolina State Universityssc, High School, 92.2, ssc, High School, 92.2 at Narayana Concept SchoolMPC, Completed MPC in class XII, MPC, Completed MPC in class XII at Narayana Junior College
English, Hindi, Telugu
Github Skills (14)
sh10
kubernetes10
script10
shell10
devops10
scripting10
kubernetes-pods10
networking9
cni9
yaml8
cicd8
sdn7
automations7
automation7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes
Apr 2020 - Jul 2022
A robust Kubernetes networking platform
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 24 commits, 42 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Pardhakeswar primarily contributed to the operational aspects of the `ovn-kubernetes/ovn-kubernetes` repository. Their work focused on improving the deployment and management of the OVN Kubernetes networking platform. This included changes to the `ovnkube.sh` script for node IP retrieval and other configurations. Moreover, they introduced modifications to deployment YAML files and added alert rules, signifying a strong focus on automating and monitoring the system.
k8skubernetesovncnicni-plugin
Pardhakeswar/ovn-kubernetes
Apr 2020 - May 2024
Kubernetes integration for OVN
Contributions:102 pushes, 33 branches in 4 years 1 month
k8skubernetesovn
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