Sudheer Vinukonda
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Systems Infrastructure at LinkedIn
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolSudheer Vinukonda is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-performance distributed systems and Kubernetes compute infrastructure from the edge to service observability. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he leads systems infrastructure work at LinkedIn focused on logs, metrics and distributed tracing, and previously drove traffic engineering for LinkedIn’s edge powered by Apache Traffic Server. His career spans Netflix, Yahoo and Alcatel-Lucent, where he designed large-scale proxies, CDNs and mobile gateway software, demonstrating deep protocol and networking expertise. An active Apache Traffic Server committer and PMC member, he has made production-hardened contributions to a widely used HTTP caching proxy, fixing core dumps, memory leaks and robustness issues. Known for blending low-level systems reliability with cloud-native orchestration, he pairs rigorous telecom-grade engineering roots with modern observability and compute platform design.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BITS Pilani, Birla Institute of Technology and ScienceMasters, Computer Science, Masters, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas
Github Skills (5)
caching10
http10
c-language10
spdy10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
apache/trafficserver
Apr 2014 - Feb 2022
Apache Traffic Server™ is a fast, scalable and extensible HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 compliant caching proxy server.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:44 reviews, 468 commits, 154 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Sudheer primarily worked on enhancing the functionality of the Apache Traffic Server (ATS) caching proxy. They fixed core dumps, implemented improvements for redirect handling, and addressed memory leaks related to SPDY. Additionally, they addressed issues with the HTTP methods and settings for SPDY functionality and made sure that origin servers were still served when cache write fails, enhancing the overall robustness of the server.
proxy-serverproxyload-balancingreverse-proxyhttpd
sudheerv/trafficserver
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
Apache Traffic Server
Contributions:143 pushes, 63 branches in 2 years 8 months
connectorapachedatastreamignitehttpd
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