Vighnesh Maheshwari
System Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVighnesh Maheshwari is a systems-focused software engineer with 9 years of experience building and automating production infrastructure, currently a System Development Engineer II at AWS in Seattle. He holds an MS in Computer Networks from NC State and a strong background in network engineering and VoIP from multiple roles at Cisco, where he built Python and JavaScript tools to streamline TAC workflows. His work spans CI/CD (Ansible, Jenkins), routing and switching (CCNA/CCNP), and Linux/container internals—he contributed kernel-module integration and OCI/runtime changes to the popular Bottlerocket container OS. Known for bridging networking and systems software, he combines hands-on coding with operational automation to solve complex platform problems. Colleagues would call him pragmatic and detail-oriented, able to move from low-level kernel mounts to higher-level orchestration tasks.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at NC State University Graduate SchoolEngineer's Degree, Engineer's Degree at R.V. College Of Engineering
Github Skills (10)
kubernetes10
occi10
linux10
container10
docker10
dockers10
kubernetes-pods10
operating-system10
rust8
cicd8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket
May 2024 - Mar 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & System Architect
DevOps Engineer & System ArchitectContributions:50 reviews, 38 PRs, 18 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Vighnesh primarily focused on integrating kernel modules within the container environment. Their contributions involved modifying the host-ctr to bind mount `/sbin/modprobe` and injecting `kmod` into containers, as well as modifications to the docker engine's default OCI spec to include the appropriate mount. They also made some changes relating to Kubernetes device ownership. This work suggests an understanding of container orchestration, Linux internals, and operating system-level interactions.
containershostingoperating-systemrustlinux
vigh-m/bottlerocket
May 2024 - Mar 2025
An operating system designed for hosting containers
Contributions:65 pushes, 34 branches in 10 months
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