Savithru Lokanath

• Tesla ft. xLights
• Patents: Uno Dos Tres

Nvidia

Sr Engineering Manager / Principal Engineer • Mar, 2022 — Present

Building control-plane & telemetry software for AI factories

Salesforce

Software Engineer • Apr, 2019 — Mar, 2022

Tech-Lead (Principal) at Slack / Einstein AI

• Architect for custom K8s controllers (Notary, Agumbe, Injektor, Banavasi, etc)
• Designed an enterprise notebooking & prototyping service
• Led efforts to achieve HIPAA & SOC compliance for the platform
• Container orchestration & automation
• Cloud orchestration (Terraform, Cloudformation, Ansible, Puppet)
• Led DevOps & SRE teams (Build/deploy/manage compute, network & storage)

Tesla

Software Engineer • Jun, 2018 — Apr, 2019

Tech-Lead in the infrastructure group

• Designed, built & operated Tesla’s API driven networking stack
• Led the team responsible for networks build & management automation
• Led the team responsible for network telemetry & analytics
• Built an orchestration system that touched 50k endpoints (push/pull)
• Led a team of engineers/interns that built the NetOps suite of tools
• Mentored 6+ interns & engineers

Juniper Networks

Software Engineer • May, 2016 — Jun, 2018

Senior engineer on Juniper's Contrail SDN engineering team (Office of CTO)

• Architect for Contrail's integration with OpenShift, Netronome (10/25/40GbE cards)
• Built single-click provisioners using CloudFormation, Ansible & Terraform
• Prototyped some of the earliest “Self-Driving Network” initiatives at Juniper
• Contribute to data-plane acceleration technologies such as DPDK/SR-IOV

Comcast

Software Engineer, Intern • Nov, 2015 — May, 2016

Intern on the network automation team responsible for provisioning edge sites (PoPs)

• Develop network services through model-driven architecture (YANG/XML/JSON)
• Deploy service models using NetConf, RESTConf, gRPC, RESTful APIs

The Walt Disney Company

Software Engineer, Intern • May, 2015 — Aug, 2015

Intern on the network design & architecture team responsible for designing the networks for Disney parks & resorts

• Network automation for Disney World, Disney Land, Disney Cruises
• Performance & feature test network platforms (Juniper, Cisco, F5, PAN)

University of Colorado Boulder

Master of Science, Telecommunications Engineering • 2014 — 2016

• Teaching Assistant - TLEN-5530 Applied Network Security
• Teaching Assistant - TLEN-5410 Network Management and Operations

Sharing objects across namespaces in a container-orchestration system (3)

US12301657, May, 2025

Sharing objects across namespaces in a container-orchestration system (2)

US11843662, Dec, 2023

Method and system for certificate management

US11764978, Sep, 2023

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for conducting transactions between bots using distributed ledger technology in a cloud based computing environment

US11538006, Dec, 2022

Sharing objects across namespaces in a container-orchestration system (1)

US11445021, Sep, 2022

• Tesla ft. xLights
• Patents: Uno Dos Tres
• The Chutney Bot: A dosa's best companion
• Project Agumbe: A Kubernetes controller to replicate objects
• Project Notary: A Kubernetes controller for certificate lifecycle management
• Optimizing EKS networking for scale
• How to rename a Helm release with zero downtime
• Kubectl your Tesla
• Certified Kubernetes Developer/Admin: Tips & tricks
• Helm v3: A tillerLess strategy
• AWS EKS: Auth optimization