Swagat Bora
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSwagat Bora is a cloud-focused software engineer with a decade of experience building and operating scalable systems at Amazon Web Services, currently a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle. He specializes in backend and DevOps work for container runtimes and infrastructure tooling, contributing to high-profile open-source projects like containerd where he improved observability, stability, and performance. His background spans systems and networking (Master’s from NC State) and earlier embedded and web graphics work at Samsung, giving him a strong cross-domain grasp of performance-sensitive engineering. Known for pragmatic reliability improvements—such as adding retry logic, tracing spans, and device deactivation fixes—he blends hands-on coding with operational thinking to drive cloud-native features into production.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Master’s Degree, Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at North Carolina State UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at National Institute of Technology SilcharHigh School, Science, High School, Science at Delhi public School
Assamese, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (12)
kubernetes10
containerd10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
tracer9
devops9
trace9
cri-o8
docker8
dockers8
crictl8
occi7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
containerd/containerd
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
An open and reliable container runtime
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:114 reviews, 6 commits, 17 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Swagat contributed to the containerd project by addressing several key areas. Their work includes fixing minor spelling errors and improving comment consistency in code related to snapshotting. They also introduced retry logic for client connections within the daemon and added tracing spans to the CRI image service and related client methods for enhanced observability. Additionally, they made several performance and stability improvements to device deactivation and bind mount handling.
containersisolationcontainerdrustruntime
swagatbora90/firecracker-containerd
Apr 2022 - Mar 2025
firecracker-containerd enables containerd to manage containers as Firecracker microVMs
Contributions:1 PR, 39 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 11 months
containerscontainerdfirecrackerfirecracker-microvmsmicrovms
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