Savithru Lokanath is a Senior Engineering Manager based in Palo Alto with 11 years of experience building infrastructure and control-plane services for large-scale AI and networking platforms. Currently leading a software systems team at NVIDIA, he has deep expertise in observability, orchestration, and immutable infrastructure for AI factories, having progressed from Principal Engineer roles. His background includes driving HIPAA/SOC compliance, migrating deep learning apps to microservices with five-nines availability, and building API-driven network stacks at Tesla. Savithru blends hands-on systems engineering (SDN, DPDK, Netronome SmartNICs, Terraform/Ansible) with people leadership and mentorship across DevOps and SRE teams. Notably, he pairs academic grounding in computer networks (MS, CU Boulder) with a habitually curious, hungry approach to solving infrastructure problems.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Visvesvaraya Technological University
Master of Science - MS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master of Science - MS, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at University of Colorado Boulder
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Savithru Lokanath - Senior Engineering Manager at NVIDIA