Prakash Arumugam
Senior Software Enginer at Microsoft
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolPrakash Arumugam is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building cloud-native platforms and distributed systems, now based in the Greater Seattle Area and currently working on Azure at Microsoft. He has led platform identity, routing, tenancy and metering efforts for VMware Tanzu, designing microservices that use gRPC/protobuf, Kafka event streaming, Envoy, and OIDC/OAuth for secure multi-cloud Kubernetes management. Earlier work includes deep systems experience in enterprise storage and RAID algorithms at EMC, and an internship contributing multi-master replication to an open-source LDAP directory—demonstrating a strong blend of low-level systems and high-level cloud platform skills. Comfortable both as a hands-on implementer and as a technical lead running quarterly planning and feature design, he tends to bridge architecture and execution. He is pursuing advanced study in computer engineering at Syracuse University, reflecting continuous investment in formal training alongside industry practice. Notably, his trajectory shows a rare combination of storage-system roots and modern cloud-native platform leadership.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and communication Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE) Electronics and communication Engineering at Government college of technology-coimbatoreMaster’s Degree Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Computer Engineering at Syracuse University
English, Tamil
Github Skills (15)
identity9
contour9
controller9
docker9
identity-provider9
infrastructure8
proxy8
ingress-controller8
kubernetes8
http-proxy8
identity-management8
ingress7
linux5
kubernetes-ingress4
container3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (4)
vmware-archive/lightwave
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Identity services for traditional infrastructure, applications and containers.
Contributions:53 commits in 1 year 7 months
containerstraditionalidentity-managementinfrastructuredocker
projectcontour/contour
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Contour is a Kubernetes ingress controller using Envoy proxy.
Contributions:1 issue in 1 year 3 months
envoy-proxycontrollerenvoyproxyingress-controller
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