Srini Seetharaman
Distinguished Engineer at Broadcom
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSrini Seetharaman is a Distinguished Engineer with 13 years of deep experience designing and architecting cloud and SDN platforms, currently leading the IAM platform for VMware Cloud Foundation at Broadcom. He has a strong research-to-production pedigree—PhD-trained and formerly chief architect for developer-focused cloud services at VMware—who combines hands-on Java backend fixes in prominent open-source projects like OpenDaylight with large-scale platform strategy. Srini’s career bridges academia and industry, from Stanford’s Clean Slate Lab and Georgia Tech research to leadership roles at Infinera and Deutsche Telekom Labs, focusing on network programmability and cloud-native integrations. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, he pays attention to operational nuances (for example, improving cross-platform scripts and caching behavior in OpenDaylight) that make distributed systems more reliable. Based in Palo Alto, he blends rigorous technical depth with product-oriented architecture and open-source advocacy.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyMS Computer and Information Science, MS Computer and Information Science at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (12)
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
openstack-neutron10
n10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
openflow10
xml9
osgi7
cicd5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
opendaylight/controller
Jun 2013 - Nov 2014
Mirror of the OpenDaylight controller gerrit project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Srini primarily contributed to the OpenDaylight controller project by addressing bugs and implementing features related to the Neutron integration for load balancing. Their work involved modifying Java code to ensure correct behavior with the openflowj library, updating the handling of data layer addresses and the member pool in neutron load balancer, and fixing case sensitivity issues. Furthermore, the user improved the usability for cygwin users by modifying the `run.sh` script, and corrected the correct type for XMLelement members in NeutronLoadBalancerPool. The contributions also included adjustments to cache access and removal of duplicate calls.
controlleropendaylightgerrit
sdnhub/SDNHub_Opendaylight_Tutorial
Feb 2014 - Mar 2016
Contributions:34 commits, 1 PR, 19 pushes in 2 years 1 month
opendaylight
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