Summary
Vikas Srivastava is a Principal Engineer with a decade of experience building performance-sensitive C/C++ systems and Linux/UNIX infrastructure, currently driving engineering at Netskope. His career spans RAID and storage engineering at NetApp to performance and observability work at Sumo Logic, then into leadership roles delivering real-world products at LocoNav and Kapstan. Vikas combines deep algorithmic and systems knowledge with hands-on optimization experience, having started his trajectory with profiling and optimization internships. He is comfortable moving between individual contributor work and managing engineering teams, focusing on reliability and low-latency systems. Based in Lucknow and educated in an integrated CSE program at IIT (BHU), he brings a disciplined, systems-first approach to solving complex performance and scalability problems. A behind-the-scenes strength is his consistent focus on data structures and algorithms applied to production-grade, resource-constrained systems.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
SSSV inter college
Integrated Dual Degree Computer Science, Integrated Dual Degree Computer Science at Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi
English, Hindi