# Aayush S. > Software Engineer at Hedra Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aayushs computers are cool sometimes ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Hedra Jan 2025 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Snorkel AI Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Member Of Technical Staff @ VMware Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Palo Alto, California, United States Maintaining the core infrastructure and supporting over 100 services on VMC on AWS with biweekly on call. Common problems faced during on-call are related to k8s deployments and pods, pipeline failures, and IaC. The on call engineer also handles operational issues that are pertinent during the week, such as token rotations and certificate renewals Architected and executed solution for incremental terraform upgrade for entire codebase. Performed upgrade on all common terraform repositories. I was the point of contact and assisted over 15 teams with the upgrade from the service specific terraform and also with the decoupling of services from our monorepo. I created a slack channel for quick support and wrote a detailed runbook on the procedure and common issues. This upgrade was done to enable resource tagging via terraform. Designed and executed solutions for migrating pipelining infrastructure from Jenkins to ConcourseCI. Migrated all common terraform pipelines and assisted all teams building on VMC on AWS with the migration. This also involved decoupling the remaining services from the monorepo. The move to Concourse was done as part of a costing effort and to implement modern best practices on our pipelining infrastructure, such as declarative code, significantly better pipeline UI, service pipeline velocity, transparent team metadata, etc. Designed and implemented Secrets Management System (SMS) utilizing Vault, Kubernetes, and ConcourseCI Migrated foundation from BinTray to Artifactory Cloud Updated validation to support cross cluster routing on API Gateway (Envoy Proxy) Created POC for Spring Cloud Gateway Designed and implemented backup and restore feature for resources for SOC2 compliance ### Software Engineer @ Cisco Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 Developing on Cisco's SD-WAN platform Delivering complex functionality to enhance the SDWAN solution Designing solutions to secure the platform for the user Designed and built a secure login system for Cisco TAC engineers to help customers ### ENG Intern @ Cisco Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Jose, California Utilized PnP connect servers to gain business and operations insights on Cisco devices Implemented the ELK stack to parse through millions of lines of log data and visualize this data Used the machine learning plugin for ELK and developing a dashboard to detect anomalies in client server transactions ### Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Jose, California Worked on automating AP Location on Cisco’s APIC-EM SDN controller and updating the information on DNA-C. Used Northbound (REST) APIs, Postgres SQL, and EW APIs (RabbitMQ) to interact and exchange information with the DNA-C. Completely automating the provisioning process for an AP from the moment it is plugged in ### Software Engineering Intern @ Espressive Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California Worked with a backend web team to test their web service and server. Executed a RESTful API python testing framework through the use of YAML test files. Integrated the output of the testing framework with Jenkins. Created local host servers and tested the web service against those servers before testing against AWS instances ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Math University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign ### Mission San Jose High School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aayushsuri2 --- Source: https://flows.cv/aayushs JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aayushs/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-10