Sarvani Vakkalanka
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSarvani Vakkalanka is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in San Jose with nine years of industry experience and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Utah. She has progressed through engineering roles at Microsoft, VMware, and Google, where she led work across Google Cloud Platform and Google Cloud Storage before her current senior staff role. Her technical focus spans distributed systems, storage, and cloud-native security, with notable open-source contributions to Istio proxy backend components enhancing authentication and authorization. Colleagues know her for combining deep systems thinking with pragmatic delivery—shipping secure, production-grade integrations such as Firebase security rules merges into core proxy code. She brings both research rigor and hands-on engineering, mentoring teams while driving architecture decisions at scale. Based in the Bay Area, she quietly blends academic depth with large-platform impact, often surfacing security and integration improvements that benefit broad cloud ecosystems.
9 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University Of Utah, School of Computing
Github Skills (13)
user-authentication10
authorizations10
authentication10
proxy10
go10
authorization10
security10
http9
apidoc9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
api9
firebase8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
istio/proxy
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
The Istio proxy components.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 59 PRs, 18 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Sarvani primarily contributes to the `istio/proxy` repository by modifying and enhancing backend components related to authentication and authorization. Their contributions include incorporating AuthProvider audiences, updating configurations, and fixing HTTP override issues. Furthermore, they are involved in merging features related to Firebase security rules. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the proxy's security and integration capabilities.
sidecarproxylyft-envoydiscoveryistio
sarvaniv/auth
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:19 pushes, 2 branches in 24 days
istiokubernetesauthentication
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