Sumit Lalwani
Member Of Technical Staff 3 at VMware
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
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Top SchoolSumit Lalwani is a cloud-native software engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable infrastructure and storage solutions, currently a Member of Technical Staff 3 at VMware in Bengaluru. He specializes in Kubernetes, container runtimes, and observability, with hands-on proficiency in Go, NodeJS, Java, Docker, Elasticsearch and Fluentd. Sumit has contributed to notable open-source storage tooling such as OpenEBS/maya—improving the mayactl CLI, adding templated outputs and tests—and has built Prometheus exporters and Kubernetes operators for production workloads. His background spans designing terraform-driven cluster automation, adding containerd support, and optimizing gRPC and REST performance for large-scale Kubernetes services. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who balances DevOps rigor with developer experience, and who often surfaces small UX improvements (like richer CLI output) that make complex systems easier to operate.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Vishwadeep Sr. Sec. School , Durg (C.G)Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology, Bachelor of Technology, Information Technology at Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, Bhubaneswar
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Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
command-line-interface10
storage10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
command-line10
cli10
html-template9
python-templates9
apptemplates9
cpp-templates9
code-templates9
testing8
devops8
dockers7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
openebs-archive/maya
May 2018 - May 2020
Manage Container Attached Storage (CAS) - Data Engines in Kubernetes
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 18 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sumit primarily contributed to the `mayactl` command-line interface, adding functionality and improving the user experience. Their work involved implementing the `volume info` command, adding flags and enhancing the output format using templates and the `tabwriter` package. They also addressed code alignment and corrected errors in the `mayactl stats` output and fixed exporter code related to zpool sync time metrics. Furthermore, the user added unit test cases and improved the template view in `mayactl` volume stats command.
volumecsi-driverkubernetesstoragecas
mayadata-io/search-guard
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
Search Guard is an Open Source Elasticsearch plugin that offers encryption, authentication, and authorisation.
Contributions:11 PRs, 2 pushes, 13 branches in 11 months
authenticationelasticsearch-pluginelasticsearchencryptionauthorisation
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