Vinay Kulkarni
Principal MTS at eBay
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVinay Kulkarni is a software engineer and technical lead with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure, currently driving Kubernetes efficiency and security at Apple Services Engineering. He authored the industry-adopted Kubernetes "In-Place Pod Resize" enhancement that unlocked ~30% cost savings for AI/HPC workloads and has deep eBPF networking expertise honed through leadership roles at eBay and Huawei. Vinay led delivery of an eBPF-powered, zone-identity L3 segmentation SDN and a high-performance VXLAN control plane at eBay, and pioneered Cilium enhancements to enforce host-process policies via cgroup-aware eBPF. A CNCF Program Committee member and long-time contributor to kubernetes/kubernetes test automation, he blends systems-level kernel work with cloud security and SRE principles. Based in Bellevue, WA, he is known for translating research-grade eBPF ideas into production-grade, compliance-ready solutions and for mentoring contributors to advance open-source features to GA.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern California
Github Skills (8)
cnc10
e2e-testing10
kubernetes10
container10
go10
kubernetes-pods10
test-automation10
e2e-test10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kubernetes/kubernetes
Sep 2020 - Oct 2022
Production-Grade Container Scheduling and Management
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:392 reviews, 6 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Vinay's commits primarily focus on modifying and extending existing end-to-end (E2E) tests within the Kubernetes framework. The changes include refactoring test functions, adapting tests to handle container names, and adding new tests to cover functionality. The modifications touch several areas, including volume management, cluster DNS, and vSphere storage. These edits improve the test coverage and ensure the stability and correctness of the Kubernetes project.
containersschedulingdockergradeproduction-grade
vinaykul/arktos
Feb 2020 - Jul 2022
Arktos for large-scale cloud platform
Contributions:6 PRs, 245 pushes, 19 branches in 2 years 5 months
cloud-scalescalecloudlarge-scalecloud-platform
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