Tamilmani Manoharan
Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTamilmani Manoharan is a Principal Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience leading cloud-native networking teams at Microsoft, currently driving the Azure Container Networking Dataplane effort from Bellevue. He combines hands-on systems engineering with people leadership, having progressed from intern to principal while shipping IPAM, dual-stack IPv6 support, and other core networking features for Linux and Windows containers. His open-source contributions to projects like AKS Engine and Cilium show practical expertise in Kubernetes CNI, eBPF-based networking, and deployment documentation—helping productionize container networking on Azure. Prior roles in SDN and M2M middleware underline a deep background in OS virtualization, container scaling, and embedded systems integration. Known for turning low-level protocol and resource-management challenges into robust platform services, he blends architectural rigor with an engineer’s attention to testing and operational detail.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.E CSE, B.E CSE at College of Engineering Guindy, ChennaiMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Stony Brook University Graduate School
English, Tamil
Github Skills (22)
kubernetes10
container10
ebpf10
ip10
cni10
microsoft-azure10
networking10
azure-aks10
azure-kubernetes-service10
go10
network-interface10
kubernetes-pods10
network10
azure10
documentation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-container-networking
Jun 2017 - Sep 2022
Azure Container Networking Solutions for Linux and Windows Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 1004 reviews, 167 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tamilmani implemented and enhanced the IPAM (IP Address Management) component, a crucial part of the Azure Container Networking solution. Their work involved adding functionality to retrieve and manage additional information about address pools, like the availability and unhealthy addresses, and integrating IPv6 support. These changes included adding a new API path and structures, modifying existing code related to address management and testing, demonstrating a strong understanding of the network's internal architecture.
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Azure/aks-engine
Feb 2019 - Nov 2021
AKS Engine: legacy tool for Kubernetes on Azure (see status)
Role in this project:Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 16 commits, 17 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Tamilmani primarily contributed to updating and maintaining the Azure CNI (Container Network Interface) configurations and related infrastructure within the AKS Engine project. Their work involved upgrading CNI versions, incorporating dual-stack support for Windows containers, and enabling IP forwarding for dual-stack scenarios. Furthermore, the user made changes to DaemonSet resource limits for the networkmonitor addon. These modifications reflect a focus on network infrastructure and container networking configurations within the context of Kubernetes on Azure.
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