Sunil Narasimhamurthy
Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSunil Narasimhamurthy is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building backend systems for cloud and data center infrastructure. He has delivered production services at AWS (AppMesh and Aurora DSQL storage) and now contributes to MongoDB, bringing deep expertise in control planes and distributed systems. Sunil is an active open-source contributor to the high-profile Envoy proxy, where his work on AWS X-Ray tracing and libcurl metadata handling improved observability and robustness in cloud-native deployments. His background spans networked systems at Cisco ACI and MDM solutions at VMware AirWatch, giving him a strong foundation in both networking and device management. He pairs an MS in Computer Science from NC State with hands-on experience across startups and hyperscalers, known for pragmatic bug fixes and thoughtful refactors that reduce operational risk.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at RV College Of Engineering
English, Kannada
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Github Skills (15)
aws-xray10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
api-rest9
cloud-infrastructure8
infrastructure8
libcurl7
selenium-webdriver6
regex6
phantomjs6
vaadin6
java6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Apr 2021 - Jan 2023
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:227 reviews, 14 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Sunil primarily contributed to the AWS X-Ray tracing extension within the Envoy proxy. Their work included fixing bugs related to the default sampling rate and segment data, and integrating the HTTP X-Forwarded-For header. Further contributions extended to refactoring the libcurl metadata fetcher and incorporating the downstream transport failure reason as a connection attribute.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
suniltheta/envoy
Apr 2021 - Dec 2023
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Contributions:43 reviews, 19 PRs, 291 pushes in 2 years 8 months
golangproxyedgeload-balancingperformance
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