Santhosh Fernandes
Principal Engineer at WalmartLabs India
Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSanthosh Fernandes is a Principal Engineer with over 10 years of experience designing scalable network, server, cloud and infrastructure platforms, currently leading architecture and delivery at WalmartLabs India. He is a founding technical lead for Walmart's L3AF project under the Linux Foundation Networking, driving eBPF-based lifecycle management and a production Layer 4 XDP load balancer that handles real e‑commerce traffic at scale. Known for solving complex distributed-systems problems, he blends deep systems-level engineering with pragmatic product delivery and operational efficiency. As an active member of LFN’s Technical Advisory Council, he influences open-source networking direction and collaborates with industry peers on cloud-native stack evolution. Based in Karnataka, India, he brings a rare combination of hands-on low-level networking expertise and large-enterprise platform leadership.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Computer Software, MSc Computer Software at Mangalore University, MangaluruMangalore University
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Github Skills (62)
python10
ebpf10
machine-learning10
linux10
go10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
data-science9
architecture9
ml9
health-check9
plane9
deep-neural-networks9
ipv49
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
l3af-project/l3afd
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
L3AFD eBPF Programs control plane
Contributions:375 reviews, 95 commits, 286 PRs in 1 year
ebpf-programsebpfcontrol-planeplaneprograms
sanfern/l3af-arch
Feb 2022 - Sep 2024
L3AF Architecture Documentation and Discussion
Contributions:52 pushes, 54 branches in 2 years 7 months
architecturearchitecture-documentation
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