Vikas M
Senior Software Engineer at Datadog
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVikas M is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience building large-scale distributed real-time data processing systems. He holds a Master's in Computer Science from UIUC (Dec 2014) and has shipped production data platforms at Datadog and AWS, including the core real-time aggregation system behind Amazon CloudWatch Internet Monitor. At AWS he also contributed to the widely used EKS VPC CNI plugin, focusing on CI/CD, multi-arch builds, and test reliability—work that improved automation and observability for Kubernetes networking on AWS. Earlier roles at AppDynamics and Yahoo solidified his expertise in analytics pipelines and big-data tooling. He combines deep systems engineering with DevOps-first sensibilities, often improving build/test infrastructure alongside feature work. His GitHub shows practical, infrastructure-focused contributions that prioritize maintainability and measurable test metrics.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Science at Visvesvaraya Technological UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignM.E.S. Kishore Kendra, PU College
Github Skills (17)
kubernetes10
github-ci10
docker10
scripting10
dockers10
cicd10
script10
go10
aws10
kubernetes-pods10
sh10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
integration-testing9
test-integration9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
aws/amazon-vpc-cni-k8s
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Networking plugin repository for pod networking in Kubernetes using Elastic Network Interfaces on AWS
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 59 reviews, 52 commits in 11 months
Contributions summary:Vikas primarily contributed to the automation and infrastructure aspects of the project. Their work involved significant updates to the CI/CD pipelines and test scripts, including upgrading EKS versions and modifying workflow files to use git install and incorporate multi-arch image builds. They also focused on streamlining the test process by implementing metrics emission for the test runs and correcting error handling. The changes reflect a focus on improving the reliability, efficiency, and maintainability of the build and testing processes.
elasticnetworkingnetwork-interfacescni-pluginkubernetes
vikasmb/1brc
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
1️⃣🐝🏎️ The One Billion Row Challenge -- A fun exploration of how quickly 1B rows from a text file can be aggregated with Java
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 days
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