# Abhinandan Prativadi

> Software Engineer at Meta AI

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/abhinandanprativadi

•	Ex-Open source maintainer - containerd, libnetwork

•	Docker Container and Microservices Infrastructure enthusiast 

•	Expert in Container networking and openflow (OpenVswitch) based switching pipeline.

•	Expert in Go, C.

•	Expert in technologies and tools Docker Containers,  Kubernetes , Nomad , Ansible , Etcd, Consul, Git , Jenkins , Vagrant.

•	Strong understanding of algorithms and data structures and object oriented design.                        

•	Expert in implementing forwarding engines on Cisco and Broadcom (Trident) switch asics.

•	Experience working on network overlay technologies like Cisco Fabricpath, VXLAN, IPIP.
 
•	Worked on projects involving cross-functional team and cross company collaboration.

GITHUB: https://github.com/abhi/

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
AI Agents ,Knowledge Graph, Knowledge grounding for LLMs, Smartglasses , NLP , On device NLP , Meta AI, Search, Realtime knowledge graph powered RAG

### Senior Software Engineer @ Docker, Inc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Containerd, CRI, kubernetes , CNI, Docker networking

### Tech Lead @ Cisco
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Building the Cisco Container Platform.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Contributor to the network infrastructure stack at Contiv - an open source policy based container infrastructure solution (Distrubuted system architecture). 

Authored Layer 3 based container networking by integrating with BGP which will allow any workload in the data center to communicate with containers vis-a-vis natively without host nating/port mapping, tunneling etc.

Authored multi tenant based container networking which provides tenant based isolation . This supports multiple organizations to be housed in the same data center with complete network resource per tenant.

Implemented service load balancer for docker containers to load balance between dynamically scalable services in a tier.

Constant feature optimization for better performance and scale.

Contributed to the testing automation framework for contiv feature sets and integrations with kubernetes and other schedulers. 

Major Contributions: 
https://github.com/contiv/netplugin
https://github.com/contiv/ofnet

### Software Engineer III @ Cisco
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Implemented Tunnel protocols : GREv4 , GREv6 ,IPIP on Insieme Nexus 9000 switches - a Broadcom Trident 2 based switch.

### Software Engineer II @ Cisco
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on projects developing features on Cisco's billion dollar switching platform product line-Nexus5000/N6000 switches.

Involved extensively in development of platform dependent features in Cisco's latest breakthrough architecture- Dynamic Fabric Automation.

Involved in developing forwarding engines for DFA

Largely involved in developing L2 overlay based OAM tools(ping, traceroute etc) for Cisco Fabricpath network from ground up for Nexus 6000/5000.

### Software Developer (part-time) @ USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 | Los Angeles
LOONG! Table (interactive table)
• Integrating a touch response mechanism using a Laser Range Finder for an interactive custom built table in C++.

PLAY! (Silverlight 4.0)
• Implemented cross platform multimedia content delivery logic which enabled users to upload video challenges from any video streaming website.
• Integrated Facebook and Twitter sharing capabilities

### Research Assistant @ USC Marshall School of Business
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | USC
Helped the Professor with Data Analysis for the business research publications(Non Technical).

### Student Intern @ Tech Mahindra
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010


## Education
### MS in Computer science
University of Southern California

### Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science and Engineering
RNS Institute of Technology - India


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/abhiprativadi

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Last updated: 2026-04-12