Rohit Agrawal
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRohit Agrawal is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently leading Databricks' Traffic Platform team in architecting service mesh and API gateway solutions. He blends deep back-end systems expertise with practical DevOps experience, having contributed significant features and bug fixes to high-profile open-source projects like Envoy and Argo Rollouts. Rohit's work on Envoy improved routing, filter behavior, and upstream SNI handling—efforts that tangibly boost proxy performance at edge and service mesh layers. He also strengthened Istio integration and reliability in progressive delivery workflows, demonstrating a knack for making complex distributed systems more robust and testable. Based in Seattle, he holds an MS from Boston University and applies both academic rigor and hands-on problem solving to scale critical infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
High School, High School at Rukmani Birla Modern High SchoolSavitribai Phule Pune UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Boston University
Github Skills (19)
kubernetes10
c-language10
routers10
testing10
progressive-web-apps10
http10
router10
continuous-delivery10
go10
filter10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
istio10
cprogramming-language10
grpc10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
argoproj/argo-rollouts
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Progressive Delivery for Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:104 reviews, 21 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Rohit primarily contributed to enhancing the Istio integration within the Argo Rollouts project. They added support for Istio VirtualService spec.tls[], fixed validation errors, and refined the reconcile process. Their work included updating test cases to reflect the changes and improving the overall reliability of the Istio-related features within the progressive delivery system. The user also addressed issues in e2e tests and fixed null pointer exceptions related to ReplicaSet labels.
argo-rolloutsbluegreencanaryprogressivecontour
envoyproxy/envoy
Sep 2021 - Nov 2022
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:191 reviews, 14 commits, 87 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Rohit Agrawal primarily contributed to the Envoy proxy's core functionality, focusing on the router and filter components. His work included implementing new features, like the ability to set arbitrary headers for populating upstream SNI and adding support for query parameters. Additionally, he addressed various bug fixes related to core functionalities, such as handling request timeouts, caching, and improved test coverage. These contributions are focused on improving the core capabilities and performance of the Envoy proxy.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
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