Venil Noronha
Senior Software Engineer at Stripe
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolVenil Noronha is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Jose with 10+ years building highly scalable, cloud-native distributed systems and service meshes. Currently at Stripe, he has led cross-language migrations, shipped a multi-processor product, and architected a cost-saving service-mesh log sampling system and an L4 proxy mesh for secure MySQL replication. A prolific open-source maintainer and contributor to Istio, Envoy and Kubernetes (among 25+ projects), he’s also presented at KubeCon, gRPC Conf and ServiceMeshCon and authored parts of a UAVs/poacher detection book. At VMware he created one of the first out-of-tree gRPC adapters for Istio and VMware’s first open-source Windows Docker plugin, showing a knack for pragmatic, platform-level engineering. Venil combines deep networking and proxy experience with DevOps polish and a track record of zero-incident migrations and measurable operational cost reductions. He’s as comfortable refining low-level buffer and socket APIs in Envoy as he is driving product-facing platform initiatives.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School Science, High School Science at St. Francis D'Assisi Junior CollegeHigh School, High School at St. Mary's English Medium SchoolBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Information Technology at University of MumbaiMaster’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering
English, Hindi, Konkani, Kannada, Tulu
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Github Skills (37)
env10
service-mesh10
kubernetes10
docker10
c-language10
system-programming10
envoyproxy10
apidoc10
api-design10
protocol-buffers10
proxy10
dockers10
networking10
go10
api10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
envoyproxy/envoy
Jul 2018 - Jun 2021
Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 43 commits, 51 PRs in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Venil's commits focused on improving the Envoy proxy's buffer and address APIs. They refactored the buffer API to handle errors more effectively and updated the API to use `Api::SysCallResult` and streamlined various functionalities. Additionally, the user made changes to the address APIs for improved error handling and set socket options, enhancing overall system reliability. These changes suggest an expertise in low-level networking and system programming related to the proxy's core functionality.
nanoservicesmore-catsgolangcontainersproxy
envoyproxy/go-control-plane
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
Go implementation of data-plane-api
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs, 8 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Venil primarily contributed to the go-control-plane repository by updating the data-plane-api dependency to specific SHA revisions. These updates included changes related to the API definitions used by the Envoy proxy. Furthermore, the user incorporated modifications to API definitions to reflect changes, such as additions of new features like the addition of `ExtensionProtocolOptions` in the `Cluster` configuration. They also added request/response headers to several RouteAction/WeightedCluster configurations and a WKT for the MySQL Proxy.
golangapiplanedata-plane
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