Savithru Lokanath

• The Chutney Bot: A dosa's best companion
• How to rename a Helm release with zero downtime
• Project Agumbe: A Kubernetes controller to replicate objects

Nvidia

Software Engineer • Mar, 2022 — Present

Software Architect / Principal Engineer building software & observability tooling for the next generation of AI factories

Salesforce.com

Software Engineer • Apr, 2019 — Mar, 2022

Tech-Lead at Slack / Einstein AI business units

• 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

Lead engineer instrumental in designing, building & operating Tesla’s next-gen 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 Corporation

Network Orchestration Developer, Intern • Nov, 2015 — May, 2016

Worked on the high-impact/high-visibility 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

Network 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 Resorts
• Performance & feature test network devices (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

Method and system for certificate management

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

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Sharing objects across namespaces in a container-orchestration system

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Designed, led & managed large scale infrastructure projects with five 9s of reliability. Can code in Python, Golang. Well versed with major cloud service providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI). Proponent of open-source software.

• 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