Vadivelย Kannappa
Customer Solution Architect at Xsight Labs
Newark, California, United States
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Top SchoolVadivel Kannappa is a customer solution architect with over 20 years of hands-on experience designing low-latency, high-throughput cloud networking and storage infrastructures. He combines deep kernel and firmware bring-up expertise with system-level orchestration of IPU/DPU accelerators, programmable switch pipelines, and spine/leaf fabrics to deliver production-grade deterministic networks. His background spans silicon bring-up and SDK work at Broadcom through precision-timed, nanosecond-synchronized fabrics at Cisco and IPU/DPU datapath acceleration at Intel, enabling scalable HPC and hyperscaler deployments. A pragmatic programmer comfortable in C, Python, eBPF/AF_XDP and Ansible, he builds end-to-end proofs of concept that bridge hardware telemetry to Kubernetes and VM-based cloud stacks. Based in Newark, CA, he also contributes to kernel observability and deep packet inspection tooling, reflecting a long-standing interest in Linux internals and sensor networks. Colleagues rely on him for rare full-stack networking fluency that reaches from SerDes link training to cloud-scale SDN control planes.
11 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering, Master of Science (MS) Electrical Engineering at San Jose State University, San Jose, CASecondary Education Mathematics and science, Secondary Education Mathematics and science at Sainik SchoolBachelor of Engg Electronics, Bachelor of Engg Electronics at Shivaji UniversityGithub contributions (5)
vadivelmurugank/source
Oct 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 11 months
vadivelmurugank/docgen
Nov 2015 - Jan 2022
Contributions:30 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 3 months
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