Vamsi Kalapala
Principal Software Engineer at Azure
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolVamsi Kalapala is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native networking and systems software, currently based in Redmond and serving in engineering leadership at Microsoft. He brings deep expertise in networking protocols, NFV/SDN, and kernel-level systems programming, paired with practical DevOps experience managing Kubernetes node provisioning and Azure container networking projects. Vamsi has contributed to high-impact open-source Azure repos—updating dependency management in AgentBaker and enhancing container networking features such as greKey allocation, mNAT support, and Windows ACL generation—demonstrating both back-end and cross-platform networking fluency. A master’s graduate from NC State with a perfect GPA in EEE, he blends rigorous academic grounding with hands-on engineering, often tackling the intersection of low-level systems and cloud orchestration. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex networking requirements into reliable, production-ready implementations while keeping security and maintainability front of mind.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.22, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.), Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 8.22 at Gandhi Institute of Technology & Management (GITAM) University, VisakhapatnamMaster's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0, Master's Degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 4.0 at North Carolina State UniversityHigh School, High School at Atomic Energy Central School
Telugu, Hindi, English
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Github Skills (25)
kubernetes10
container10
networking10
iptables10
go10
agent10
kubernetes-pods10
network10
dockers9
docker9
linux8
vhd7
vhdx7
macos6
freepascal6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-container-networking
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Azure Container Networking Solutions for Linux and Windows Containers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:734 reviews, 164 commits, 274 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vamsi primarily focused on enhancing Azure Container Networking (ACN) solutions. They implemented support for greKey allocation for mNAT and Load Balancers, demonstrating their understanding of network container functionalities. They added functionalities for supporting daemon Pods and a translation layer to make sure the codebase is updated. They also contributed to the policy manager, including adding the correct logic to generate windows ACLs.
containerswindowscontainer-networkingkubernetes-networkinglinux
Azure/AgentBaker
Dec 2020 - Sep 2021
Agent Baker is aiming to provide a centralized, portable k8s agent node provisioning lib as well as rich support on different OS image with optimized k8s binaries.
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:8 reviews, 5 commits, 10 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Vamsi primarily focused on updating the Azure NPM (Node Package Manager) versions within the agentbaker repository. Their contributions involved modifying configuration files and test code to reflect the latest NPM releases. These changes directly impact the dependency management and container image definitions, ensuring the project utilizes up-to-date and potentially more secure versions of Azure NPM. The user also updated the test setup to reference the latest NPM versions.
provisioningvhdagentcloud-initaiming
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