Swaminathan Vasudevan
Network Test Architect at Aruba, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise company
Rocklin, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSwaminathan Vasudevan is a Network Test Architect with over 25 years in software and hardware engineering and more than two decades working in the United States, blending deep networking expertise with cloud-native architecture. He architects and builds resilient, scalable monolithic and microservices platforms on AWS and Kubernetes, and has hands-on experience from L3 switches and BGP to OpenStack Neutron, SDN/OpenFlow, and CNI-based container networking. A long-time OpenStack Neutron contributor and active Cilium collaborator, he has fixed DVR edge cases and improved eBPF-related tooling—demonstrating rare fluency across kernel drivers, virtualization (VMware/KVM/Xen), and cloud networking. He leads distributed teams and delivers carrier-grade virtualized platforms for telcos, while also contributing to post-silicon bring-up, manufacturing tests, and low-level driver work. Based in Rocklin, CA, he pairs strong debugging/problem-solving skills with polished conference-facing communication, having presented at OpenStack, FOSDEM and SUSE-CON.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering, Master of Technology (M.Tech.), Electronics and Communications Engineering at Pondicherry University
english, hindi and tamil
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
python10
ebpf10
networking10
go10
openstack10
kubernetes-pods10
documentation10
container9
ips9
bpf9
net9
ip9
cni9
devops9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
May 2016 - Apr 2019
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:97 commits in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Swaminathan contributed to the OpenStack Networking (Neutron) project, specifically focusing on Distributed Virtual Router (DVR) functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs related to host binding, address scopes, and SNAT rules within the DVR architecture. They also improved the system by adding features to support the migration of floating IPs and enhancing code for the dvr_no_external agent type, including improvements for HA configurations.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
cilium/cilium
Nov 2019 - Oct 2020
eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability
Role in this project:Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:34 reviews, 36 PRs, 415 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Swaminathan primarily contributed to the Cilium project by addressing several areas, including cleanup, deprecation, and documentation updates. They removed obsolete code related to the monitor v1.0 socket, deprecated and removed several options, and fixed various documentation issues regarding installation, validation, and the use of the `--disable-k8s-services` flag. In addition, the user added a control flow diagram, fixed the ipam crd backend getting started guide, and made several fixes to the 'help' section and improved the codebase. They also added functionality related to BPF filesystem mount status.
bpfcontainerskerneltroubleshootingkubernetes-networking
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