# Ashwin Shroff

> Engineer with proven track record of delivering enterprise grade software

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

1. Experienced in design and development of large scale software systems
2. Passionate about software observability, worked on various initiatives to improve software debuggabilty
3. Lead efforts to improve availability to 4 9's and reduce cost to serve for a large scale system built using distributed standalone micro services running in docker containers
4. Mentored junior engineers and helped them acheive their goals
5. Strong advocate and constantly thrive to update software engineer practices to improve team velocity to ship secure, maintainable and performant code

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Apple
Jan 2025 – Present

### Principal MTS @ Salesforce
Jan 2021 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
Building distributed, highly scalable, secure, fault tolerant, cloud agnostic multi substrate connectivity solution as part of salesforce infrastructure team

### Senior MTS @ VMware
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California
Working in Networking and Security BU (NSBU):
- Design and develop various features related to  NSX and ESXi network stack. 
- Project Monterey: Implement NSX datapath in SmartNIC.
- Project Pacific: Design and developed a new upgrade architecture for NSX datapath modules to support hitless inplace upgrade on ESXi hypervisor.
- Enhance ESXi vMotion stack to support networking features like NSX Distributed firewalls, Switch security, Onprem to VMC(VMware managed cloud) migrations
-  DVFilter: Responsible for the DVFilter kernel module in ESXi which provides infrastructure for the NSX distributed firewall.
- Designed and developed solution to migrate customers from NSX-V to NSX-T
Responsibilities include proof of concept, design , development, sustaining legacy system, bug fixes and mentoring new team members.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Proofpoint
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Sunnyvale, California
Design and development of supervised learning based spam engine.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Santa clara
• Worked on Solaris Service Management Facility(SMF). SMF manages system and application services in Solaris
• Revamp the notification Framework for communication between daemons in SMF.
• Extended the configuration daemon to support batch transaction. Majority of the work involved modifying the in-memory cache and making the application aware of the new transaction mechanism
• Post SMF stats in solaris sstore.

### Software engineer @ Oracle
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Santa clara
• Worked on Solaris networking stack. Concentrated on MAC, TCP/IP implementation of Solaris kernel
• Core dump analysis and investigate performance of Solaris networking stack
• Fixing critical customer bugs

### Graduate student @ University of Southern California
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
Academic Projects

• Project on Nachos OS:Introduced multithreading, system calls, virtual memory, basic networking and distributed system capabilities in Nachos operating system using C on an UNIX environment.
• Peer to Peer file Sharing System:Developed and programmed distributed file sharing system using C/C++, POSIX thread library and BSD sockets on Solaris platform
• Geospatial Application: Created a geospatial application. Employed oracle database 11g for storing spatial data. Designed queries on spatial data using spatial data types supported in oracle 11g. Implemented user interface using Java Swings and programmed application logic using Java
• Automatic E-Mail reading system through telephone: Read’s the mail contents to the user by converting the text messages to speech. Implemented using Java API’s and C programming language


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
University of Southern California

### B.E in Electronics & communication
National Institute Of Engineering


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ashwin-shroff-61409517

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Last updated: 2026-04-12