Unmesh Deodhar
Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolUnmesh Deodhar is a Senior Software Engineer at NVIDIA with a strong focus on high-performance computing, operating systems, and virtualization, backed by roles at AMD and Intel. He brings four years of hands-on experience in kernel-level debugging, virtualization features, and systems programming using C/C++, Python, and assembly. Notably, he contributed to the prominent open-source Kata Containers project by integrating SEV/SNP support—adding kernel modules, OVMF firmware, initrd images, and confidential test coverage. His tooling fluency spans WinDbg, GDB, Slurm, Perforce, and GVFS, and he pairs that with practical scripting in PowerShell and Linux shells. Trained with a Master’s in Computer Science from Portland State University, he consistently blends deep architecture understanding with pragmatic build and test optimizations. Colleagues rely on him for solving low-level performance and isolation challenges that bridge hardware features and production virtualization stacks.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Portland State UniversityEngineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Savitribai Phule Pune University
English, Hindi, Marathi
Github Skills (15)
kata-containers10
kernel10
bash10
script10
kernel-mode10
build-automation10
testing9
docker8
kubernetes8
kubernetes-pods8
dockers8
qemu7
acr6
virtualization6
cicd6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
kata-containers/kata-containers
Aug 2022 - Sep 2023
Kata Containers is an open source project and community working to build a standard implementation of lightweight Virtual Machines (VMs) that feel and perform like containers, but provide the workload isolation and security advantages of VMs. https://katacontainers.io/
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:87 reviews, 13 PRs, 163 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Unmesh primarily contributed to the Kata Containers project by adding support for building and integrating SEV (Secure Encrypted Virtualization) features, including kernel modules, OVMF firmware, and initrd images. Their work involved modifying build scripts and configurations to include these SEV-specific components and caching mechanisms for optimization. Furthermore, they updated the test suite to include confidential tests for SEV and SNP environments, enhancing the project's security capabilities.
firecrackervirtualizationociworkloadvdi
UnmeshDeodhar/tests
Feb 2023 - Sep 2023
Kata Containers tests, CI, and metrics
Contributions:36 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
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