Sumukh Shivaprakash
Engineering Management at Netflix
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolSumukh Shivaprakash is an experienced engineering leader with 10 years building cloud backend infrastructure and distributed systems, now leading content workflow platform efforts at Netflix after a long tenure as a Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft. He has architected and shipped high-availability services and latency-critical data paths—designing replicators, quorum managers, transaction managers, and log recovery engines that saved millions by optimizing storage and resiliency across Azure Service Fabric. Sumukh pairs product-focused roadmapping with hands-on technical direction, driving Envoy adoption and virtualization strategies to boost engineering efficiency and fault tolerance. Based in Sunnyvale, he blends deep systems expertise with a track record of mentoring teams, emphasizing test-driven development and customer-centric solutions.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
B.Tech Information Technology, B.Tech Information Technology at National Institute of Technology KarnatakaMS Computer Engineering, MS Computer Engineering at University of Florida
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Github Skills (47)
kubernetes10
microsoft10
proxy10
accelerator10
microsoft-azure10
golang10
azure10
high-performance10
cloud-native10
csharp9
php9
cpp9
grpc8
python8
azure-service-fabric8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sumukhs/envoy
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Horizon Fork of the envoy project
Contributions:6 PRs, 43 pushes, 13 branches in 9 months
horizonenvoy
sumukhs/envoy-dnsfilter
May 2019 - May 2019
Contributions:1 commit, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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