Suchith N
Software Engineer II at Uber
Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSuchith N is a software engineer with nine years of experience building backend distributed systems, observability platforms, and data pipelines, currently focused on video edge servers and WebRTC analytics in Amsterdam. He has deep expertise in Go, networking (Istio/Envoy, L4-L7), Kubernetes, and systems-level debugging—evidenced by contributions to Istio's multi-cluster testing, HTTP/3 support, and observability metrics. At Stream he engineered bandwidth- and codec-aware edge features (TURN, auth, resolution throttling) and built video analytics APIs; earlier work at Morgan Stanley delivered fault-tolerant data structures and real-time monitoring for high-stakes trading systems. Comfortable across production services, test automation, and documentation, he often surfaces hard-to-reproduce issues with pragmatic fixes that improve reliability. In his spare time he explores Rust and deep technical topics, and maintains an active GitHub and personal blog demonstrating his hands-on open-source and tooling work.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal
Kannada, English, Dutch, Hindi
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Github Skills (27)
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
website-development10
scripting10
testing10
cd10
bash10
kubectl10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
kubernetes-pods10
yaml10
istio10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
istio/istio
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Connect, secure, control, and observe services.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:178 reviews, 20 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Suchith contributed to the integration and setup of testing jobs within the `istio/istio` repository, specifically focusing on kind_provisioner.sh. They implemented changes to support IPv4 and IPv6, externalized configuration, and ensured proper handling of multi-cluster setups within the prow testing framework. Additionally, they added metrics for the istio-operator to monitor cache flushes, CR merge failures, and resource operations, enhancing observability.
circuit-breakerenforce-policiesistioapi-managementmicroservice
istio/tools
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
Tools shared by several Istio repositories
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:21 reviews, 8 commits, 10 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Suchith primarily focused on automating and improving the testing infrastructure for Istio tools. Their contributions included creating and refining dual-control plane upgrade and rollback tests, implementing logic for verifying the Istio control plane, and integrating new test scenarios. They addressed issues related to test flakiness, corrected linting errors, and ensured the tests were robust by increasing timeouts and fixing test setup and teardown procedures. The user demonstrated proficiency in scripting and system testing within the context of Istio's upgrade and downgrade processes.
repositoriesgolanggodocgoistio
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