Sumukh Ballal
SDE II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSumukh Ballal is a software engineer with a decade of experience building secure, cloud-native systems across AWS, Amazon, Cisco, Amdocs, and BNY Mellon. Currently an SDE II working on container operating systems and Project Kuiper, he blends systems-level Rust/Go development with DevOps experience and an academic focus in cloud computing and cybersecurity from Illinois Tech. He has contributed to the Bottlerocket OS—helping extend metrics, update APIs, and streamline build/release support—demonstrating practical open-source impact on a container-focused OS. Comfortable across Java, Python, TypeScript, Linux and release pipelines, Sumukh navigates complex compliance and data-sovereignty challenges for specialized AWS regions. Outside work he pursues research in cloud/cybersecurity and keeps sharp on distributed-systems storytelling via podcasts like Command Line Heroes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Illinois Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Electronics and Communications Engineering at Pune Institute of Computer Technology
Kannada, English, Hindi
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Github Skills (9)
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container10
rust10
operating-system10
apidoc9
api9
devops8
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
Mar 2024 - Jun 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 19 reviews, 28 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Sumukh primarily contributed to the back-end infrastructure and settings of the Bottlerocket OS. Their work involved fixing Clippy warnings, creating and integrating metrics settings extensions, and updating the API client. They also modified various models to incorporate these new settings extensions. Additionally, they added support for updating repositories and ECR registries, indicating involvement in build/release processes.
operating-systemcontainerslinuxrust
sumukhballal/bottlerocket
Apr 2024 - Apr 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Contributions:64 pushes, 17 branches in 1 year
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